The DoctorSep 14, 2022

Open question, folks:

Digital Ocean is getting too expensive to host my servers there. I'm pricing out options for #vps providers to move my stuff to.

I'm considering moving everything to OVH, after speccing out servers and computing monthly prices. However, before I start planning out the migration I wanted to ask if anybody out there used their services. What do you think of them? Do they suck? If so, how much?

If you use their hosted database service, is it a hosted database server (where you can stand up however many databases (groups of tables) you want, and how many users thereof) or is a hosted /database/ (i.e., a group of tables) only?

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Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Sep 15, 2022

@drwho #OVH is good especially if you don't want to be subject to the Cloud Act.

I use OVH in some projects with others because, at least for the "public cloud" vps offering, performance and costs are predictable, the control panel etc. are easy to use and debug (the underlying API is open!), support always answers in timely and useful fashion. So it's easier to ask people to collaborate.

For my Mastodon instance I use #Scaleway, see example costs: https://respublicae.eu/@praetor/108424466097391203

ResPublicae.eu admin (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image For transparency and in case it helps people considering whether to self-host a similar #Mastodon instance, the operating costs of #ResPublicae are currently a little less than 25 €/month (VAT included). Without any performance optimisation whatsoever, the instance is currently quite overprovisioned and should have enough capacity to withstand over 1 year of growth. Using a smaller instance would cut hosting costs by some 10 €/month, but reducing #MastoAdmin time costs is more important.

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Show threadThe Doctor

@nemobis I just want to not overrun my exocortex budget again.

I'll check out Scaleway, too. Thank you.

Sep 15, 2022 at 4:34pmWeb