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[Suggestions/Help] Server/VPS for encoding + nginx
Hi all,
I currently have a dedicated server at Hetzner (AMD Ryzen 5 3600 [6c / 12t] (3.6 GHz) / 64 GB DDR4 RAM / 2x 500 GB NVMe), which costs me about $60 per month.
On it, I run a web server (Nginx) alongside MySQL and FFmpeg. The FFmpeg part is used heavily because it’s needed to encode ~10mb videos every couple of minutes. The videos are short, but CPU performance still plays an important role.
Due to some cost-cutting, I’m looking for suggestions.
Since I like Hetzner, I was thinking about switching to their cloud servers instead, specifically the CCX23 plan for $36.
Has anyone used their cloud servers? Do they use old CPUs?
Or if anyone has better alternatives, feel free to let me know. It must be located in the EU. Thanks
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Been a while since i stumbled around those parts and i'd be lying to claim to actually remember what was exactly being deployd but in any case you can spin up pretty crazy instances (might require a chat with support to get the limitations lifted).
The real beauty would be to automate deploying a beefy encoding instance and instantly delete it once you got the job done (using API and all that). This would allow you to run your webserver on some rather minimal specs.
Probably not really worth the effort if whatever codec you are using doesn't profit from multi threading but if it does you could probably drastically cut down your encoding times and only pay for that (+ the time it needs to deploy your encoder - dumping a disk image over the internal network is pretty fast though).