What factors matter when choosing a VPS provider?
What factors matter when choosing a VPS provider?
Hey 👋🏻 I’m picking a VPS provider and could use some advice. What’s most important to you when choosing one?
I like Hetzner. Very high price/performance, pretty easy, no complaints.
1In no particular order:
- Price (if looking to host something low value)
- Price/performance (if longer-term)
- Details of Fair Usage Policy
- Bandwidth limits
- Overlimit pricing
- Location - proximity
- Location - creepiness of government / jurisdiction
- Reputation of the company - are they scummy? Do they oversell? Is their datacenter about to get yeeted? (cough Dedipath cough)
- Are they bullshitting me with RAID 100000 PURE SSD STORAGE!!!!!
In fact, I actually prefer HDD storage for most of my servers: for most websites, your bandwidth will be a bigger limitation than your data access speed.
1Are they bullshitting me with RAID 100000 PURE SSD STORAGE!!!!!
very specific. who hurt you?
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I prefer VPS with good price/performance.
1Has to be KVM based. Then I look at shared / dedicated CPU cores and IO disk speed.
1for me price per gb ram per month because memory is always my bottleneck
1Your skill level vs there support knowledge base and they type of support you may need.
1This is very important. Not everyone at all knows how to setup nginx, haproxy, varnish, mysql, redis, php-fpm and maintain that going forward just to host performant wordpress.
modern developers dont seem to know anything ops-related, outside of basic jamstack(s) configs.
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Which benchmarks should one compare between providers?
1I've seen people use this: https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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