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Storage. Which to be fair is nothing for a modern server but still seems like a lot for a chat app.
by blfr 4y ago
Storage. Which to be fair is nothing for a modern server but still seems like a lot for a chat app.
- johnchristopher 4y ago~15Gb is out of the small VPS territory, especially if you want to use for something else (talking from experience, Matrix will eat space to store avatars and CPU cycles to do its thing ; which is fine, just not maybe compatible with the cheapest VPS out there).
- curiousgal 4y agoCheck out Contaboo. Monthly Base Price £5.99 4 vCPU Cores 8 GB RAM 50 GB NVMe or 200 GB SSD 32 TB Traffic out / Unlimited Incoming
- mxuribe 4y agoI'm often on the lookout for good, but decently priced VPS providers (been slowly trying to move away from digital ocean)....but never heard of Contabo. That's really great pricing; especially since as i recall running synapse does require a bit of RAM! Thanks for sharing!
- esperent 4y agoSo I was wondering how the hell they can be that cheap. A bit of research turns up loads of threads like <0> all saying that they oversell capacity and performance will randomly tank whenever they are busy. On the side, loads of complaints about their customer service. Maybe it would be ok for absolutely non perf critical task. But for a chat app you're probably gonna get loads of problems if it starts to run slow with missed notifications and so on. <0> https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/uaqg3s/contabo_too_good_to_be_true/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/uaqg3s/contabo_...
- mxuribe 4y agoThanks for finding this! Maybe their pricing was just too good to be true! ;-)
- ncmncm 4y agoObviously 15GB is "storage". It's not cost, or turbidity, or torque. But that wasn't the question. Maybe answer that?
- fluoridation 4y agoYou asked whether it's RAM or disk, and the answer you got was "storage". How does that not answer the question? Do you consider RAM storage?
- ncmncm 4y agoYes, RAM is immediate storage. Disk/SSD is long-term storage. I would not have asked if I already knew the answer. I only asked again because I did not know the answer. Is that really surprising and offensive behavior? What do you do?
- fluoridation 4y agoOkay, well, nowadays the word "storage", when used without any additional specificity, is understood to mean the non-volatile kind, and not the computer's main memory. I.e. the I/O device that's used to store files and/or the OS. Perhaps you didn't know this, but the person who first replied to you had no way of knowing that, they simply used a word in common usage in the sense it's usually given. If you were confused by this, you could have said something like "Well, what do you mean? Volatile or non-volatile storage?" and someone would have told you what I just told you. Instead you chose to reply as if that person was being a smartass by replying "it's 16 GB of either disk or RAM" (i.e. providing no new information whatsoever). If you engage with people assuming that they're not being stupid or liars and that they have good reasons to say the things they do, you'll usually have fewer conflicts.
- ncmncm 4y agoI did not reply as if the person were being a smartass. I replied indicating the answer did not provide me the information I had asked for. The original question was utterly specific, so I asked again for an answer to that. "Volatile or non-volatile?" means exactly the same as what I asked. Repeating it would not add any more information. To assume I was calling anybody stupid or a liar is an extremely uncharitable interpretation. The reasonable one is that I did not get an answer to what I asked, exactly as I said.
- Gigachad 4y agoIf you are in some group chats, file attachments rack up really fast. Several groups I’m in have hit 40,000+ images. Not counting the occasional multi gb zips