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Poll: how many active VPS do you currently have?

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center807

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8 #1

Running seven active instances across three redundant feeds with N+1 power topology. All enterprise-grade compute, obviously.

Curious how many nodes the community is actually operating at scale. Our sales team sees averages climb every quarter, but that's selection bias toward serious deployments.

For context:

  • Two are hot standby for failover
  • Three handle production workloads
  • Two are lab environments for testing enterprise-grade storage configs

Redundant feeds aren't cheap, but uptime pays for itself.

If you're running fewer than three, are you really running infrastructure or just renting hobby space? No judgment, genuinely curious where the median sits here.

GroupStockholm

Member

#2
center807 said:
Running seven active instances

Seven? I run twelve, all orchestrated with a custom scheduler I rewrote in Rust after the original Go implementation kept leaking goroutines. Zero-cost abstractions mean I can pack more workloads per host without the memory overhead you'd see with C++ or the garbage collection pauses that make Go unsuitable for anything serious.

Actually, the real question is how many of those seven are running memory-safe software. I'd bet most are still on C-based stacks. Rewrite it in Rust and you could probably consolidate to four nodes with better throughput. Just saying.

minh1987

Member

#3

Ticket open. Waiting.

Have four. One at Hetzner, two at Contabo, one at drift. Hetzner down twice this month. Other three fine.

34? How you even keep track. Billing alone must be nightmare.

phở at 3AM, deploy at 4
jane_ffm

Member

#4

Thank you for sharing your numbers, everyone. It's genuinely helpful to see the range here.

A few notes from our side at Contabo:

  • Our typical customer runs 2-3 VPS for redundancy
  • We do see power users at 10+ for specific use cases
  • Enterprise plans include consolidated billing to help with tracking

If anyone's experiencing repeated downtime with their current provider, I'm happy to check our capacity in your preferred region via DM. We maintain N+1 redundancy on all feeds and publish real-time status at status.contabo.com.

— Jane @ Contabo

Single mode till I die 💀
PollosHenry

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Homelab Hoarder

#5

Actually I have nine (well, eight and a half if you count the one at GreenCloudVPS that's been "provisioning" since Tuesday (their control panel still runs on CentOS 7.9 (which I only know because I recognized the Apache version string from the error page (2.4.37, very specific memory there)))).

Back in my day (2019) I had one OpenVZ instance with 128MB and ran a full LAMP stack on it. Now I have a dedicated server for my dedicated servers. The hobby has hobbies.

ana_mad

Member

11 #6

I have six! Three for client projects, two for personal experiments, one I made test order last month and forgot to cancel (oops!).

34 is impressive but also I worry about your sleep schedule! I sent ticket yesterday for upgrade on one and they handled it in two hours, so maybe I add seventh soon.

Cheers

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
mateo_dragon

Member

#7

Twelve? I dont believe you run that many. Show the panel screenshot.

jane_ffm

Member

#8
mateo_dragon said:
Twelve? I dont believe you run that many. Show the panel screenshot.

You don't need a screenshot to count instances, just an API key and a loop

I run six across three providers, all through Terraform. Two at Contabo, two at OVHcloud, two at Vultr. Keeps the blast radius small when one has a bad quarter

The real hassle is the annual audit for the two that handle client data. Compliance wants to see every patch date in a spreadsheet like it's 2003

Single mode till I die 💀
BI

Member

#9

Four at RackNerd
Two at GreenCloudVPS
One at Leaseweb

Billing is just a spreadsheet
Not hard to track

minh1987 said:
How you even keep track

Autopay and a tab

ellagee91

Member

#10
mateo_dragon said:
Twelve? I dont believe you run that many. Show the panel screenshot.

I don't think anyone's obliged to post screenshots to strangers on a forum.

That said, twelve orchestrated nodes sounds like a lot of personal infrastructure. Are you reselling, or is this all hobby projects?

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