How much total storage do you need? Something to consider: A few years ago I used Rackspace's OnMetal servers https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onm

How much total storage do you need? Something to consider: A few years ago I used Rackspace's OnMetal servers https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/cloud/servers/onmetal for a dedicated MySQL 128GB RAM server that would handle 100s of thousands of very active hardcore mobile game users. We were doing thousands of HTTP requests per seconds and 10s of thousands of queries (and a lot of those were writes) per second, all on one server. The DB server would not skip a beat, CPU/IO was always <20% and all of our queries would run in 1-5ms range. I'm not affiliated with Rackspace in any capacity, but my experience with them in the past has been top-notch, esp. when it comes to "dedicated-like" cloud hardware, which is what OnMetal is - your are 100% on one machine, no neighbors. Their prices can be high but the reliability is top-notch, and the description of the hardware is very accurate, much more detailed than AWS for example, and without "fluffy" cloud terms :). For example: Boot device: 2x 240 GB hot-swappable SSDs configured in a RAID 1 mirror Storage: 2x 1.6 TB PCIe storage devices (Seagate Nytro XP6302)