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Even before using more servers, one should consider using (one) bigger server (and another as backup). Massive servers are laughably cheap these days. E.g. 16
by tomp 5y ago
Even before using more servers, one should consider using (one) bigger server (and another as backup).
Massive servers are laughably cheap these days. E.g. 16 cores, 128GB RAM is €112 from Hetzner.
- mwcampbell 5y agoDamn, wish those dedicated servers were available in Hetzner's US data center. As far as I'm aware, the closest thing to a competitor in the US is OVH, and the server you get for that price is about a quarter of the capacity. That's plenty for my little company, but still...
- hardwaresofton 5y agoSame here -- I'm eagerly awaiting them having a dedicated server offering In the meantime have you looked at leaseweb? https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-servers#US https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-servers#US I'm planning on running nimbus web services[0] there and there are a few other smaller providers I have earmarked depending on how brave you are: https://www.defendhosting.com/usa-unmanaged-servers/ https://www.defendhosting.com/usa-unmanaged-servers/ https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/dedicated-servers/ https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/dedicated-servers/ https://greenserver.io https://greenserver.io [0]: https://nimbusws.com https://nimbusws.com
- SkyPuncher 5y agoIn our case, we're running on top of a PaaS (think Heroku). Vertical vs Horizontal scaling is essentially the same complexity for the scale we're currently at.