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investigate alternative VPS providers #280

Open bhpayne opened 9 months ago

bhpayne commented 9 months ago

If all you want are virtual servers (==droplets), DO is one of the more expensive options around. Of course substantially cheaper than AWS/Azure/GCP, but much more expensive than Hetzner/OVH/Netcup or anything on lowendboxes.com).

bhpayne commented 4 weeks ago

For the past 4 years (2020-2024) I was able to run (Docker, Flask, Gunicorn, nginx) on DigitalOcean with a 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25 GB storage for $4/month and more recently $6/month.

Now that I added Neo4j as a 3rd container the 1GB of RAM is inadequate -- web requests timeout in the browser and no content is rendered.

Upgrading the DigitalOcean droplet to 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 25 GB storage costs $12/month

Memory utilization as of 2024-09-03 using docker stats:

NAME                             CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %
allofphysicscom-nginx-1          0.00%     4.082MiB / 1.922GiB   0.21%
allofphysicscom-flask-1          4.95%     319.4MiB / 1.922GiB   16.23%
allofphysicscom-neo4j_docker-1   1.07%     479.7MiB / 1.922GiB   24.37%

bhpayne commented 4 weeks ago

https://www.netcup.com/en

German company. Has US hosting capability.

as of 2024-09-02, lowest cost relevant configuration: "VPS 250 G11s"

3.35 eur is currently $3.71 usd
2 vCore (x86)
2 GB ECC RAM
64 GB SSD
Traffic included

Unfortunately, the US-based servers are only available for beefy configurations. The "VPS 250 G11s" is hosted in Germany; see https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

bhpayne commented 4 weeks ago

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/

Is not a VPS. Provides disk space and pre-configured web services. Not suitable for running Docker.

bhpayne commented 4 weeks ago

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

Servers hosted in Germany or Finland

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