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Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
by mctx 14y ago
Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
- pyre 14y agoDepends on your site, and how trivial it is to balance it between two locations, keep it in sync, add in a way to switch over, etc.
- lucaspiller 14y agoI've been looking at cheap VPSes over the last few months, as I don't really want to spent $20/mo on Linode anymore for a static site and VPN. I've tried a number of different providers, and they've all had issues. Things I've experienced: - being rebooted without notice - poor performance (IO and / or CPU) - provider being DDOSed - provider moving to a new DC and telling people not to give out IPs (???) due to being DDOSed - hosts running old virtualisation software which doesn't support recent versions of Linux, so I'm can't use an OS newer than Ubuntu 10.04 - provider being banned by PayPal then suspending my account being I couldn't pay then - provider going out of business I liken it to poor quality manufactured goods. Take the Android tablets you can get for less than $100. If you can afford it, you would never buy one just to save money, because it is much less hassle to spent another $100 and get something that works well. It just isn't worth it, especially not for a business. I would love to see someone who can make a proper fault tolerant system that works on these type of machines though :)