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True. It's also worth noting that a $5/mo VPS can get you surprisingly far with respect to well-designed websites and services.

wvenable 8y ago
You shouldn't run a production environment on a single $5/mo VPS.
- johnday 8y ago
  It depends on your speed, concurrent user capacity, and uptime requirements (among other things). I run two production servers off two separate $5/mo VPSs, one getting a few thousand hits a day. No issues whatsoever.
  - wvenable 8y ago
    What happens if something catastrophic occurs?
    - johnday 8y ago
      What do you mean by catastrophic? It's safe from the obvious things: * DB corruption / destruction: The database is backed up. * FS corruption / destruction: The production code is backed up with version control (obviously) and can be restored at the drop of a hat. * The server just randomly falls off the internet: It would take about 2 hours to get a new server up to the same point. What kind of problems could arise, that wouldn't equally affect any other kind of server provision?
      - wvenable 8y ago
        How frequently is that database backed up? How many hours of work are users going to lose? And you're going to wake up at 3:00am and take 2 hours to get a new server online? This is all fine for a service with a few thousand users that's not mission critical. But I assume the article is about building apps to be a real business not just a hobby. I run a few hobby sites under the same scenario as you but all my work sites have multiple servers to fail over to and replicated databases.
        johnday 8y ago
        That all sounds very reasonable. Ours is a news website which publishes semi-frequently; so we'd probably lose about 5-10 articles on average. It's not just a hobby - it brings in more than a minimum job's worth per month at the moment and is growing fairly quickly, since we operate in a growing niche. Like I said - it's all about your requirements, and for us $5/mo is just fine.

wvenable 8y ago

You shouldn't run a production environment on a single $5/mo VPS.

johnday 8y ago
It depends on your speed, concurrent user capacity, and uptime requirements (among other things). I run two production servers off two separate $5/mo VPSs, one getting a few thousand hits a day. No issues whatsoever.
- wvenable 8y ago
  What happens if something catastrophic occurs?
  - johnday 8y ago
    What do you mean by catastrophic? It's safe from the obvious things: * DB corruption / destruction: The database is backed up. * FS corruption / destruction: The production code is backed up with version control (obviously) and can be restored at the drop of a hat. * The server just randomly falls off the internet: It would take about 2 hours to get a new server up to the same point. What kind of problems could arise, that wouldn't equally affect any other kind of server provision?
    - wvenable 8y ago
      How frequently is that database backed up? How many hours of work are users going to lose? And you're going to wake up at 3:00am and take 2 hours to get a new server online? This is all fine for a service with a few thousand users that's not mission critical. But I assume the article is about building apps to be a real business not just a hobby. I run a few hobby sites under the same scenario as you but all my work sites have multiple servers to fail over to and replicated databases.
      - johnday 8y ago
        That all sounds very reasonable. Ours is a news website which publishes semi-frequently; so we'd probably lose about 5-10 articles on average. It's not just a hobby - it brings in more than a minimum job's worth per month at the moment and is growing fairly quickly, since we operate in a growing niche. Like I said - it's all about your requirements, and for us $5/mo is just fine.