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For WordPress, SSD helps but not as dramatically. Your shared host is probably fine unless you're getting heavy traffic. The difference is Valheim writes the entire world state every 20 minutes—hundreds of MB, random IO. Your bakery site writes... almost never.
Different problem. You're okay.
From China perspective, RackNerd is slow to access without proxy. Better choice is Alibaba Cloud or Tencent Cloud, but price higher. For Valheim with friends in Asia, Singapore region works. Hetzner Singapore is new, I tested, routing from Shanghai is okay.
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Hetzner Singapore peers with Singtel and NTT. From Rotterdam I get 160ms, not great for gaming. But for the backup use case JokoNord mentioned, perfect. Geo-redundancy without thinking about it.
I keep meaning to test their Singapore compute for EU-Asia hybrid setups.
Has anyone compared Linode/Akamai for this? Their 4GB shared is 24 USD, NVMe, but no "gaming" marketing. I used them for years, solid but pricey compared to RackNerd.
Linode is reliable, overpriced for personal use. You're paying for support you don't need for a Valheim server. Same reason I left DigitalOcean.
The "gaming host" premium is support + control panel + DDoS + brand. If you can handle Linux, you don't need any of that.
Following. Want to setup Valheim for my brother's birthday. Is 2GB RAM enough or do I need 4GB like JokoNord?
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2GB can work sir for small world, 3-4 friend. But Valheim use more RAM as world explore bigger. 4GB is safe. Also ZRAM help if you only have 2GB.
My 4GB with 8 friend, RAM usage around 2.5GB normally. Peak 3.2GB when many building in same area.
Can confirm. Started with 2GB on Vultr, had OOM kills during large raids. Upgraded to 4GB, stable since. Vultr is 6 USD for 1CPU/1GB, 12 USD for 1CPU/2GB... actually not competitive anymore. Used to be good, now overpriced.
This thread is gold. One thing not mentioned: Valheim server is 64-bit only, so no Raspberry Pi 32-bit. Pi 4 with 8GB and Ubuntu 64-bit (https://ubuntu.com) works but save load is 35 seconds. Fine for 2-3 players, not more.
Better cheap option: used ThinkCentre Tiny, i5-8500T, 200 USD used.
