Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

Post by ServerHunter » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

pheeney wrote: post #47

haggy wrote: post #40

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With only ~11,000 entries and what looks to be a pretty defined set of searchable fields, it should be a simple setup. I'd guess the search is powered by either Elasticsearch or Postgres/MySQL. I think the more interesting part of the product is going to be the procurement of available servers which I don't have any guesses outside of public API's + web scraping to do that.

What was interesting to me is the search ID, https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=157-857-0B2 for example. Each change results in a new search ID. If you toggle the same option on and off, the search ID is different every time. I originally thought it was a way to reference a unique combination of the facets but it seems to create a new search session for each query.

Post by ServerHunter » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

pheeney wrote: post #48

markbnj wrote: post #41

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It looks to me like the default result set has 11k or so documents, which is very small. A couple of years ago I helped build a specialized vertical search engine that provided faceted search over a similarly-sized dataset. We used django on the front end with elasticsearch on the backend, and it was blazingly fast. I credit our talented django developer with the speed and fluidity of the front end, and I credit elas…

Doesn't elastic search require a decent size server just to run with no data? Curious about the costs of running elastic search for a small number of documents compared to the low cost of running django. For example the frontend could be static and hosted on S3 for pennies while elastic search seems to recommend at least 8 GB of ram which would be $40/mo on some lost cost VPS providers. Pretty big price difference fo…

Post by tmikaeld » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

ServerHunter wrote: post #17

tmikaeld wrote: post #13

Most VPS hosters "share" CPU time between users on a host server (Which mean CPU type/speed doesn't mean much). So it would be great if you could filter for that on serverhunter to paint a fair(er) picture, because a few hosters give dedicated cores by default. When we tried benchmarks on the Hetzner Cloud we found that some servers had as low as 10% max CPU on a crowded host server, which makes sense as to why they…

That makes sense! Unfortunately, it'll be hard to obtain benchmarks for every plan with every provider, and it'll be even harder to get enough benchmarks with each provider to paint an accurate picture. Even with the same provider, there can be massive differences between VPSs, it just depends whether you end up on an idle host node with no noisy neighbors or one where everyone is busy mining their favorite cryptocur…

Post by ServerHunter » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

jmngomes wrote: post #49

ServerHunter wrote: post #17

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That makes sense! Unfortunately, it'll be hard to obtain benchmarks for every plan with every provider, and it'll be even harder to get enough benchmarks with each provider to paint an accurate picture. Even with the same provider, there can be massive differences between VPSs, it just depends whether you end up on an idle host node with no noisy neighbors or one where everyone is busy mining their favorite cryptocur…

Perhaps you could partner with https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ , they have different benchmark data for major providers.

Post by ServerHunter » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

superasn wrote: post #50

ServerHunter wrote: post #12

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Custom crawlers, API implementations and lots of automation. Like most search engines, it's not flawless, but it's getting better every day. :)

Yeah, some info seems to be incorrect. Like it shows vmhaus has Windows instances but after signing up I could only find *nix.