[mad182]

I handle ~150TB and 26M page views for ~$500 by simply renting a few dedicated servers at hetzner. And if I didn't need quite a lot of processing power (more than average website), it would be much lower. I only need so many servers for the CPU power, not traffic.

[razemio]

This! Hetzner root servers, there is nothing else I know on the market that comes close in price/power ratio when you use the "Serverbörse". I run multiple low traffic websites, databases and a heavy traffic elk instance + my complete homelab in proxmox / docker for 48€ a month and there is even room for more. Highly recommended!

[SergeAx]

What is your strategy for dealing with server failure?

[mad182]

My app allows for "share nothing" architecture, basically using multiple DNS A records as load balancing. Currently it has 6 servers.

Even if 5 of them would go down at the same time, the site would still work as intended (thought probably couldn't handle peak load with less than 3 or 4). If one of or two are down, nothing happens.

Also completely reinstalling a server takes around an hour.

[SergeAx]

Yes, but comment I was replying to mentioned a 48 euro budget, it is a price of a single server.

[razemio]

I do not have an HA setup BUT all of my proxmox vms are snapshot backuped by proxmox backup server every night to my home NAS and to my office NAS. You can use one of many storage providers. SSHFS also works. This is the cheapest and lowest administration solution I used till today. For production usage I would recommend 3-4 similar speced 28€ machines and run a replicated proxmox cluster or ceph proxmox cluster.

[heipei]

As long as you treat servers as cattle, you can use Hetzner's own load balancer service and then you don't have a SPOF that you manage yourself. Their LBs are advertised as redundant / fault tolerant.

[SergeAx]

I don't know if it is possible to treat "Serverbörse" servers as cattle. They are all different. I know that k8s and Docker Swarm could in theory balance load between different machines, but never tried it in practice. But I had in practice some weird glitches with different CPU/motherboards/memory.

Also, comment I was replying to mentioned a 48 euro budget, it is a price of a single server.

[hansel_der]

i think the whole point of vm/container is to enable "servers as cattle"

[SergeAx]

Yes, but "Serverbörse" machines are very non-uniform, which may be bad for load balancing. See yourself: https://www.hetzner.com/sb

[ornornor]

That sounds very cool, did you happen to write about it? I currently run all this at home using a dedicated computer but electricity here isn’t cheap and I’d like to move everything to proxmox (although I’m struggling to figure out how to move all these more or less manually set up docker compose services and lxc containers)

[folli]

Any experience with other providers of dedicated servers, e.g. Digitalocean?

[mad182]

Does DO even offer dedicated servers? I have used their vps in the past. It was ok, no issues, but more expensive than hetzners vps or dedicated for large traffic/cpu needs.

[reducesuffering]

Yes DO does. Generally slightly more expensive than Hetzner, with a few more AWS-like features.

[GOATS-]

You cannot go wrong with Leaseweb or Nforce if you're looking for something in EU.