Post 3072499 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
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(DIR) Post #3071970 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-17T17:00:56Z
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idly wondering how much inter-instance fediverse traffic doesn't leave OVH or Hetzner's networks or for that matter, the European mainland 🤔
(DIR) Post #3071982 by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2019-01-17T17:02:31.331032Z
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@staticsafe I've had similar concerns, but for AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
(DIR) Post #3072043 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-17T17:03:55Z
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@sean in my casual observation, there are very few instances hosted in AWS or GCP (its expensive!) but a lot of instances do use AWS S3 + Cloudfront for media serving/storage (like mine)
(DIR) Post #3072044 by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2019-01-17T17:04:39.386205Z
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@staticsafe Yeah, I'm more thinking of how many hosting providers might use those platforms at scale, though. Things like Heroku, for example, pretty much piggyback on that sort of cloud infrastructure for hosting.
(DIR) Post #3072259 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-17T17:09:45Z
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for those not aware:the reason for OVH and Hetzner dominance is cost related, their compute and bandwidth pricing is quite cheap, so you get more bang for your buckespecially for Mastodon instances which are RAM use heavy, it can be cheaper to use a Hetzner VPS vs a Linode or DigitalOcean one
(DIR) Post #3072280 by er1n@social.mecanis.me
2019-01-17T17:04:50Z
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@staticsafe @sean i used to run a t2.medium but moved to the $10/mo box on DO last summerish
(DIR) Post #3072309 by noorul@s.noorul.xyz
2019-01-17T17:13:45.527891Z
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Is OVH or Hetzner reliable service providers?@staticsafe
(DIR) Post #3072451 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-17T17:14:10Z
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@noorul generally, yeah I would say they are reliable
(DIR) Post #3072465 by noorul@s.noorul.xyz
2019-01-17T17:18:10.712748Z
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Good to know that.I wanna set up VPS rather cloud hosting.@staticsafe
(DIR) Post #3072499 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2019-01-17T17:17:02Z
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when I first joined, there was a dominance of Scaleway a Online.net brand but that has since decreased as Scaleway is hot unreliable trash, as many fediverse instance admins can attest toOnline.net proper is fine but Scaleway is not
(DIR) Post #3072708 by Ganonmaster@horsecr.app
2019-01-17T17:24:08Z
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@staticsafe @noorul i would argue that they are less reliable than a Digitalocean or TransIP.
(DIR) Post #3072728 by noorul@s.noorul.xyz
2019-01-17T17:26:40.137684Z
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@Ganonmaster @staticsafe I would accept that. But with such low cost, can ovh be used for production?
(DIR) Post #3073342 by Ganonmaster@horsecr.app
2019-01-17T17:47:12Z
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@noorul @staticsafe of course. Just depends on what you think is acceptable. Scaleway is another cheap option, but the way both OVH and Scaleway handle hardware failures and recovery is generally very poor. Disk in your dedi or the one hosting your VPS fails: radio silence. Coworker's scaleway VPS was down for 16 hours. Support told him it's being worked on, no info. Stonewalling. DO or TIP? Minimal downtime and continuous status updates in case of outages.
(DIR) Post #3073354 by noorul@s.noorul.xyz
2019-01-17T17:49:20.694040Z
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@Ganonmaster @staticsafe I better stick with DO and vultr
(DIR) Post #3073390 by Ganonmaster@horsecr.app
2019-01-17T17:49:48Z
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@noorul @staticsafe for a lot of people running a single user mastodon instance that's probably fine. You can do without Mastodon for 16 hours. No big deal. But if you're providing a service for hundreds of people, spending just a little more is definitely worth it.