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How much do you pay for your server?
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Ravenfreak
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I try to pay for my hosting annually rather than monthly these days. I used to pay monthly because it's what I could afford at the time.
I break my sites up between instances. The most expensive has a base price of $20, but I add backups for $6 (in addition to the other 2-4 backups), another IP for $3, Plesk for $18 (but the longer I work without a panel on new $6 instances, the more comfortable I'm getting to drop it), and $10 for DDoS protection, so $40.
I use Cloud computing, so I start at $6 and scale up as needed. If I need a forum to run with XFES/Elasticsearch, it's $10 (as even though ES recommends 4GB RAM, I've optimized it to work quite well on 2GB RAM using ES7 over ES8), plus like $2.50 in backups, so $8.50-12.50 for a new forum to launch. The benefit of this is a dedicated IP and for not everything to go down at once in a failure caused by 1 site.
Getting over using Plesk is hard. She's caused my sites to become corrupted twice — having to rebuild them all — as its authentication and whatnot relies on MySQL, and Plesk updates have broken twice on me (when I finally resorted to daily backups over weekly cause the 2nd time I lost way too much data to be comfortable with losing again). I guess you can say I'm still in an abusive relationship with Plesk. I used it over cPanel because it used to be free for up to 3 domains (so I could split sites on different instances and have a free panel), but since the owners of cPanel bought Plesk, they got rid of that license and it's now $18.
Altogether with my Cloud bill is like $120-150/mo. It really just depends on if I pop up a new instance (even with high specs to toy with things quicker, like 8vCPU to compile something quicker to get to play with what I really want, shaving off up to an hour of setup time) and getting billed per hour I use it before I destroy the instances. Also, I take full snapshots in addition to backups for immediate redeployment.
Plus 10% consumption tax.
I use Cloud computing, so I start at $6 and scale up as needed. If I need a forum to run with XFES/Elasticsearch, it's $10 (as even though ES recommends 4GB RAM, I've optimized it to work quite well on 2GB RAM using ES7 over ES8), plus like $2.50 in backups, so $8.50-12.50 for a new forum to launch. The benefit of this is a dedicated IP and for not everything to go down at once in a failure caused by 1 site.
Getting over using Plesk is hard. She's caused my sites to become corrupted twice — having to rebuild them all — as its authentication and whatnot relies on MySQL, and Plesk updates have broken twice on me (when I finally resorted to daily backups over weekly cause the 2nd time I lost way too much data to be comfortable with losing again). I guess you can say I'm still in an abusive relationship with Plesk. I used it over cPanel because it used to be free for up to 3 domains (so I could split sites on different instances and have a free panel), but since the owners of cPanel bought Plesk, they got rid of that license and it's now $18.
Altogether with my Cloud bill is like $120-150/mo. It really just depends on if I pop up a new instance (even with high specs to toy with things quicker, like 8vCPU to compile something quicker to get to play with what I really want, shaving off up to an hour of setup time) and getting billed per hour I use it before I destroy the instances. Also, I take full snapshots in addition to backups for immediate redeployment.
Plus 10% consumption tax.
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