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- What do you actually compare before choosing a new infrastructure provider?
by /u/truecakesnake on October 15, 2026 at 1:20 pmI feel like comparing hosting providers gets complicated pretty quickly once you move past basic VPS plans. Server specs and monthly price are easy enough to compare, but then there’s bandwidth, network locations, hardware availability, support, provisioning time, cloud options, CDN, and how painful it would be to scale later. For people managing production workloads, what do you usually check first? Do you prefer providers that offer most of the infrastructure stack in one place, or is it better to use separate companies for servers, cloud and CDN? submitted by /u/truecakesnake [link] [comments]
- Infra questionby /u/Automatic-Bicycle186 on October 15, 2026 at 10:33 am
Hey people! Curious what everyone here is using. Are you going with Vercel, Supabase, Render, AWS, your own VPS or something else? Has managing the infrastructure been a headache at all for people who are non technical and just want to build or has it been pretty straightforward? How much are you paying for your setup, and do you think it’s worth the cost? submitted by /u/Automatic-Bicycle186 [link] [comments]
- Anand small businesses and clinics: who looks after your computers, Wi-Fi and backups?by /u/mrevilzombie on October 15, 2026 at 8:51 am
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- Does anyone know how many players a paper Minecraft server with a i5-13500 could get and what optimisations I should add to get upwards to hopefully 100 players? (1.21.11)by /u/Gamerexp56 on October 15, 2026 at 4:23 am
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- What actually made your cheap VPS expensive?by /u/Fair_Praline_6562 on October 14, 2026 at 4:03 pm
I’m pricing out a small setup: a personal site, an uptime monitor, and a couple of containers. The VM price is the easy part. Backups, outbound traffic, extra storage, and the test instance I forget to shut down are where the comparison gets messy. I’ve used serverspace before, so that’s my reference point, and I’m comparing it with hetzner and digitalocean. Looking at all of that made me wonder how often people only notice the real cost after they’ve already moved in. Have you ever started with a cheap vps and like me realized a month or tu later that it wasn’t cheap at all? Bcs I feel stupid for that submitted by /u/Fair_Praline_6562 [link] [comments]