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Oracle Cloud Always Free vs Budget VPS for Node.js + FFmpeg Streaming?

iamstrangemindiamstrangemind Member
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I'm comparing Oracle Cloud Always Free with low cost VPS providers for a Node.js + FFmpeg streaming backend. For those who've run media workloads, what providers have given you the best network performance and uptime?

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  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    Honestly many yearly deals here. Just buy one

    Thanked by 1itzsenu
  • itzsenuitzsenu Member
    edited August 12

    Just buy a cheap one, I've tried the Oracle free instances. Even the @DediRock $8.88/year plan does far better than the Oracle free instance.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @itzsenu said:
    Just buy a cheap one, I've tried the Oracle free instances. Even the @DediRock $8.88/year plan does far better than the Oracle free instance.

    Not for me. The Oracle AMD has limited disk speeds, but the Arm ones are faster.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    Oracle has pretty good network and uptime and free backups. You just need to script the backup with oci cli.

    I just setup a YAMS with Oracle for the content downloading and a dedirock 4TB for the storage.

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  • forestforest Member
    edited 12:45AM

    Video streaming? For raw throughput, nothing beats a provider that passes through a GPU for hardware-accelerated encoding. Soon you'll start seeing even VPSes using virtio to expose things like VAAPI even!

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  • cash602cash602 Member

    Oracle Always Free offers a great 10TB bandwidth allowance, but its current 2-core ARM limit is too weak for FFmpeg, and sustained transcoding will likely trigger an automated account ban. For reliable media streaming without buffering, budget providers offering dedicated CPU threads—like Hetzner's CCX line or Netcup's Root Servers—are your best bet. To completely eliminate egress costs, run your transcoding on one of these dedicated VPS instances and put Cloudflare in front of it to cache the video segments at the edge.

  • x1archx1arch Member

    @cash602 said:
    Oracle Always Free offers a great 10TB bandwidth allowance, but its current 2-core ARM limit is too weak for FFmpeg, and sustained transcoding will likely trigger an automated account ban. For reliable media streaming without buffering, budget providers offering dedicated CPU threads—like Hetzner's CCX line or Netcup's Root Servers—are your best bet. To completely eliminate egress costs, run your transcoding on one of these dedicated VPS instances and put Cloudflare in front of it to cache the video segments at the edge.

    And for now it's 50mbps limit for channel 🥲

  • tzulitzuli Member

    Try to encode on a different machine and then serve it from VPS. I don't know of any low budget VPS that would be good for live transcoding

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