[npsomaratna]

My understanding is that DO VPS’ are underpowered (as are VPS offerings from most other VPS vendors). Dollar for dollar, bare metal stuff from Hetzner, OVH, etc are far more powerful.

That said, I completely agree-a $4/month DO VPS can run MySQL, and should easily handle this load; in fact I’ve handled far bigger loads in practice.

On a tangent: any recommendations for good US-based bare metal providers (with a convenience factor comparable to OVH, etc)?

[diggan]

> good US-based bare metal providers

The times I've needed it, DataPacket (not based in US, but has servers in the US) and Vultr (based in the US) have both been good to me.

[mminer237]

In a trademark travesty, I must ask DataPacket.com or DataPacket.net?

[diggan]

Sorry, I was referring to datapacket.com

[npsomaratna]

Thank you so much. I’ll take a look at these.

[mxuribe]

Hetzner is of course not U.S. based, but has expanded to have 2 U.S. sites (Oregon i think, and Virginia)....so that could be an option maybe. Caveat: i have not leveraged Hetzner in the U.s.....so can not speak to their quality.

[npsomaratna]

That’s news thank you. I’ll check this out.

[mxuribe]

Uh, actually at a quick glance, seems the U.s. sites are more for their cloud offering and maybe not bare metal servers.....i think (sadly): https://www.hetzner.com/cloud