Member OP
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- poll: active VPS count
- current: 7
- breakdown:
- 3: production (RackNerd, HostHatch, bytearbor)
- 2: staging
- 2: "experiments that became load-bearing"
- NOTE: experiments include IRC bouncer from 2019
- WARNING: do not count Oracle free tier
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- suspicion:
- this community hoards infrastructure
- median estimate: 4
- honest answers only
1. Current count: 12
1. A) 4 production
1. B) 3 monitoring (redundant, overkill)
1. C) 3 "temporary" test boxes, 18 months old
1. D) 2 forgotten, still billing
2. Action items:
2. I) audit forgotten boxes
2. Ii) cancel at least one
2. Iii) probably will not
Member
Okay so I have 8 right now and I had 9 but the one at GreenCloudVPS went down last tuesday which was the day I had oatmeal for breakfast and my cat Mr. whiskers sat on the keyboard while I was trying to ssh in and the weather was rainy and I couldnt tell if it was the network or the server and I panicked and opened a ticket and they said it was a router issue in the datacenter and I was like why didnt you email me and they said they did but it went to spam and then I had to rebuild the thing from scratch because I dont have backups dont yell at me and Mr. whiskers knocked over my coffee so that was the whole morning gone and I still have the invoice open in another tab because im not sure if I should cancel or try again because I had it configured just right and now its gone and I have 8 left and I think thats reasonable for someone who runs a small webcomic and a mastodon instance and a minecraft server for my nephew and some other stuff I forget
Member
In server is 5, no? Little script for deploy to backup, very nice. One szerver is only for testing, will delete soon, no? Maybe next month. KnownHost has good price for small vps, little box, little money. 🪙 no, wrong thread, no? Perkele, I copy wrong. 5 server. Yes.
Member
The count it is 3, bon, not so many alors. One for the website, one for the database, one for... how to say... the experiments. The experiments server it is broken often. I think to add one more, for the monitoring. But alors the price ! Not good.
@liam_funky you have 2 forgotten, bon, this is the problem with many server, no ?
247!
All ARM64, obviously. Ampere Altra everywhere, insane value, runs circles around x86 at these price points. Automated provisioning with a little custom tool, Terraform was too slow.
Specs across the fleet:
- 143: actual workloads
- 104:???
- I have a script that emails me what each does. Run it monthly. Forget immediately.
One box at Time4VPS has been compiling the same kernel since March. I think. Not sure. Insane value though!
