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Hey πŸ‘‹πŸ» I’m picking a VPS provider and could use some advice. What’s most important to you when choosing one?

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[–] Curmudgeons_dungeon@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your skill level vs there support knowledge base and they type of support you may need.

[–] raunchieska@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This 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.

[–] NikStalwart@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 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.

[–] raunchieska@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Are they bullshitting me with RAID 100000 PURE SSD STORAGE!!!!!

very specific. who hurt you?

[–] ivansalloum@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which benchmarks should one compare between providers?

[–] lanzaroslr@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer VPS with good price/performance.

[–] PatochiDesu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

for me price per gb ram per month because memory is always my bottleneck

[–] txmail@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Has to be KVM based. Then I look at shared / dedicated CPU cores and IO disk speed.

[–] Bytepond@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I like Hetzner. Very high price/performance, pretty easy, no complaints.