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I have a few lowend vps from inception, hosthatch, ramnode and virmach.
But for this production server, I am looking for something solid.
I don't want to jump to something and find out 3 months later that the service degraded.
Thank you all for your valuable input.
Yes. GOD tier are providers you cant go wrong with. Solid all around.
Whereas with Vultr you have no ddos protection
With OVH you dont get fast support unless you pay for business support plan
Hetzner has couple of quirks like you need to pay 2 invoices in order to get port 25 unblocked. So you can't send mails for 2 months after activating server on fresh accounts. Their dedicated CPU offer is not that great pricing-wise and last time I checked... it still had CPU steal so its just like netcup root server, but 3x more expensive.
It's funny because just last week, a colleague asked me for a recommendation, because he has been having nightmares about Contabo for two months... As if the experiences are different ...
Inception is great too!
I think it's either a passport/ID Verification OR add 20 EUR credit via Paypal. I registered 2+ years back and chose paypal credit option. Worked fine. It's actually better this way to avoid spammers/abuse.
Get a dedicated server, there are still few nice BF nice deals around.
Only thing is that you should be good in managing server yourself, or else buy managed services, save your time and use that time to improve your site + profits.
When it comes to high traffic site, I always choose to get a dedicated, then setup a few big VM on it. This ensure stability, easy to maintain, backup and migrate if needed.
Probably you want to setup a kubernetis clusted to loadbalance and make everything avaible 24/7
how is netcup root server?
Do they ovesell? or do they have any weird issue like hetzner?
works great, previously used Hetzner dedi, now using netcup root.
All the negative stories I've heard about contabo are in their german data centers. their other locations don't seem to have any issues other than mediocre disk performance.
netcup is asking for my ID.
Is this mandatory? is there any other way? Like someone mentioned paying $20 bill for hetzner is an alternate way to verify account.
Seems that times become darker and darker. For that issue there are specialized 'privacy' providers. I don't think there is much you can do about that. And it def sucks
Are you unable to provide ID or just don't want to?
For the latter, https://incognet.io/ might suit you.
How many visits per day would you qualify as high traffic site?
Wouldn't it be better to have several VPS distributed around the world?
Surprised that no one mentioned AWS lightsail. The pricing seems to be decent. Are there any hidden charges besides what is mentioned on their pricing page? Am I missing something?
Depends upon his setup and need.
And nobody is talking about his target region, eg. if you and your audience are from US then you probably want to have server in that region.
Ethernetservers... boss company amazing uptime and for what your paying with digital ocean I've got a fully managed ovz vps with them direct admin included (non managed is cheaper, but George is amazing and always willing to help)
For cheapest go with contabo(used 5years for production site)
For mid-range go with buyvm/hostcram/greencloudvps/hosthatch(hostcram and gcv have lighting fast machines)
For high-range go with ovh or hetzner dedi/ramnode/vultr/aws/liquideweb/leaseweb/
It would be better if you mention your daily traffic.
personally I would avoid contabo, I had an SSD VPS for 2 hours, asked for a refund as the "SSD" disk speed in yabs was slower than a microSD card on my raspberry Pi on 4k IOPS. Which I suspect was the reason I got repeated 504 errors when testing.
I requested the refund, after 2 hours, they did refund me but it took 2 days, of which they changed me prorata for these days.
Basically, terrible service and product.
I don't want to.
DO, linode, ramonode, inception, virmach, hosthatch, aws didn't ask for my ID.
I don't need something super privacy oriented.
Just don't want to provide ID/passport unless I really have to.
I've used lightsail, pricing is similar to DO. So no point in jumping.
"Hight" traffic is really relative.
I guess mine are not that high after all.
I get less than 500GB outbound web traffic in a month.
I use HostSolutions in production. My services have been involucrated and my business is thriving...
Web traffic didn’t tell how much user you have. I have daily 2000uniqe user with 7-8k hits. Use 10-14TB bandwidth a month. Because users stream contents. Tell us user user & hits. So we can suggest you machines
Other factor how resource hungry your script is. Wordpress is known to hog down resources even for simpler tasks when its loaded with plugins. I have seen a dedi crawling with bad WP even for few hundred concurrent users while similar Dedi could handle many thousands of concurrent users for custom coded CMS.
Simple advice, if you are happy with current provider, then switch only if you have radical savings, else its not worth.
Or go for 1 month, or trial if works, stick or ask refund.