How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by avereveard on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:37AM (#34677086)

if you need durability in the cloud you just pick any object storage service from the 3 bigs, and a db with multiple deployment with automatic replication and managed failover.

getting the equivalent reliability with irons is a lot more expensive than renting "two dedicated servers" - now you might be fine with one server and a backup solution, and that's fair. but a sysad to create all that, even on a short contract for the initial setup and no maintenance, is going to go well beyond the cloud price difference, especially if there's a database in the mix and you care about that data.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by phpnode on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:44AM (#34677154)

I'm not saying there's no place for cloud, but that many workloads benefit from using dedicated hardware. It is often much simpler to deploy to a dedicated server rather than spending months rearchitecting your system (or even worse, cutting customer facing features!) to efficiently make use of many small cloud instances.

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