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Hetzner is pretty popular for production. I have used Racknerd to host some personal projects but I won't host a production web server on it
So even the best here is not enough to be production level?
Using a Crunchbits dedi in production for over a year now - very happy with everything all around.
Other folks I'd trust to keep me up in production - AlphaVPS ( @AlexBarakov ) , Advin Servers ( @advinservers ) , Catalysthost ( @ryanarp ) and Speedypage ( @speedypage ) - (either currently with or on/off with for 4+ years)
All have outstanding uptime and are top notch in quality.
I use MXRoute for production email (and have been since 2019) - @jar is the man
I have been using Bunny.net @BunnySpeed (formally BunnyCDN) in production CDN, DNS... (and storage...and video streaming..and all sorts of stuff) since 2018. They only seem to get better as time goes on.
I use @host_c and @labze for storage servers, both running MongoDB for production, and a @Hybula VPS as the frontend. I also have a Hetzner dedicated server with MongoDB running on it too.
Overall, it’s been pretty smooth sailing. The only issue I ran into was some downtime with Hostbrr when one of their RAID disks failed, but they handled it quickly, and I didn’t lose any data
It depends a lot of your definition of "production".
If it's a low traffic website that doesn't really generate a lot of profit, sure, I could go with some of the more reputable hosts here. I would make sure I have offsite backups and probably have some sort of fallback standing by, but that is something you should have anyway.
If it's a mission critical server used by a multi-million dollar company, no way in hell would I use anything here.
Ask yourself if it is acceptable that the server goes down or the provider simply vanishes? Even if the risk of it happening is minimal, is it a risk you are willing to take to cut some costs?
I'm the first to admit that a lot of providers here have a very solid track record and works amazingly well considering they cost basically nothing, the catch is that I trust none of them to be around tomorrow.
Good question, in this part of the internet I would say that production is everything you want it to work to the public as product as claimed and the provider doesn't disappear like nothing. A project that you want to earn money with, but not in the realm a multi-million dollar company. A little downtime now and then is not critical at the beginning.
But I mean if they've been around for 10y+ and proved to be reliable what could ever happen?
Yes, I use @hosthatch and @crunchbits for prod. All the providers in my signature are used for my personal prod environment as well.
@crunchbits and @greencoludvps
Truth is you really gotta see what matters to you and who you trust. Big 3 have issues all the time. It’s a joke.
We have many clients on LET who use our VPS servers for their main projects, we even have important stores and websites that choose us as their provider.
We are very grateful for the opportunity of lowendtalk
i only trust greencloud.
on hindsight crunchbits would have been good too since if not overrun on the yearly specials
virmach?
We build everything with production readiness in mind, including a fully redundant network setup and Ceph-backed NVMe storage, private networking, etc.
what are big 3?
I use @DartNode and @Advin for production
I'm happy the yearlies ended the way they did! I didn't bother reading through everything until a couple days ago and decided to put in a ticket figuring things would have calmed down a bit by this point
Ended up with an upgraded processor, more ram and and nvme upgrade at the same price point and thought that was pretty cool. Still trying to figure out what people were freaking out about.
exactly i regretted cancelling early. but since knowing they booted resources abusers i got a limited 2TB special from them which works out great too
I moved all my basket into namecrane/buyvm, even my trusted mxroute mail i cancelled to go with cranemail, if it goes down, i'll go down with it!
Edit - still waiting on buyvm to have some empty space on nyc to move my elasticsearch server from racknerd.
Lots of providers for personal projects that I share with family & friends. For somewhat real public prod (it's just a small niche web app I'd say), I'm using @NDTN GreenCloudVPS.
Edit: forgot to give shout out to @jar MXRoute for real production emailing.
I believe both providers above still have their Black Friday sales. Worth to check em out.
2nd edit: I forgot I had a dedicated server for a short term project which I could consider production too. Amazing experience with @MrRadic @ReliableSiteHosting.
Hetzner, OVH, and Netup?
You need to define production clearly.
For low traffic applications/websites and hobbyist projects (like gaming forums) then most LET providers are fine, especially when capital (cash) is limited. Downtime or outages will (hopefully) not put you in major financial ruin. These projects don’t necessarily need to pay premium prices for premium support or infrastructure that they may not really need.
For enterprise applications or projects that are capable of paying someone a comfortable salary to raise a family on, I would only use providers that are used by other enterprises (e.g. OVH for example, since France gov uses them heavily).
I deploy services for prod with
LiteServer @LiteServer
BuyVM/Namecrane @namecrane
Racknerd @dustinc
Netcup
and
Colocrossing @ColoCrossing
.
Servers from GreenCloud are awesome for development and backups. I run code-server on them.
Can someone tell what your project, especially make profit
AWS. Azure. Google.
Big enough to want to end the world with nuclear reactors.
How about being provider-agnostic, you deploy your app using at least 3 providers, two keep replicas of your services containerized (podman) and orchestrated by k8s, one is a LB, all with IaaS, and systematic backups. Now one VPS is gone, no problem, the other is there. Find another provider , connect it via Flannel , deploy and join the cluster, do business as usual ?
I use @ReliableSiteHosting for most production sites (granted, it's crammed onto one dedicated server and it would still being considered idle). Have Reprise Hosting server handling Mastodon and BuyVM / Heymman for most other stuff. Also have shared hosting from NameCrane, Mail hosting from MX Route & NameCrane (primary still using Google Workspace though)
Many providers here can be used for production, the key is to make your applications or services as redundant as possible across multiple sites. Even the highest level data centers can have faults.
SpartanHost
The cost and hassles of running above setup will be more than that of a managed hosting provider, I guess !
As long as it has uptime, it's suitable for professional production idling.
I currently use Hetzner (but after their latest US cloud price increase I'll move to Clouvider), Crunchbits, Hybula and FlowVPS. As long as you build enough redundancy and have tested plans to switch providers, you should be fine with many of the LET providers.