How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal
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    • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website
      8·
      9 months ago

      $10-20 is what that VPS costs at a cloud provider. You could also dockerize and use a container service like GCP Cloud Run combined with cloud storage within that budget.

      I’m not a big node guy, but I also kind of doubt nodejs would fail to handle 10RPS on 2gb of memory. I guess it all depends on what the requests are doing.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      10-20$ ? I think it is way cheaper. I doubt they need a good CPU, some vcores will do.

      edit:

      Here is an 8GB 6vcore ARM VPS from a reputable German server host for 7€

      https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=3564

      Here is a 2GB 2vcore x86 for 3.25€

      https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2948

      Not to mention - they have regular deals, where you can get them for a permanent 50% off (during black friday and winter sales) I have been paying 17€ per year for the 2GB version.

        • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          The netcup vps I have has a 100% uptime during the past 5 years. But no heavy use ofc, just wireguard

        • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’ve been using netcup for a decade. They’re very reliable and high quality. (Management/Admin interface, functionality, help wiki. Never had reliability issues.)

          I’ve used other providers before. I’m very satisfied with netcup.

    • QuadriLiteral@programming.dev
      3·
      9 months ago

      Indeed. They say they’ve been repeatedly featured on the front page of HN and the site didn’t fall over, I’ve seen many examples that did.