[eric_khun]

AWS won't raise the limits on our new account (we're stuck at 1GB RAM in Lightsail after 2 months, even though we need to launch this month).

Looking at Hetzner or Vultr as alternatives. A few folks mentioned me Infomaniak has great service and uptime, but I haven't heard much about them otherwise.

Anyone used Infomaniak in production? How do they compare to Hetzner/Vultr?

[CaptainOfCoit]

Just curious, what are you building/launching that requires more than 1GB of RAM at launch? 1GB is a lot of memory for most use cases, guessing something involving graphics or maybe simulations? In those cases, dedicated instances with proper hardware will give you enormous performance benefits, FYI.

Both Vultr and Hetzner are solid options, I'd go for Hetzner if I know the users are around Europe or close to it, and I want to run tiny CDN-like nodes myself across the globe. Also, Hetzner if you don't wanna worry about bandwidth costs. Otherwise go for Vultr, they have a lot more locations.

[eric_khun]

appreciate the advice! Launching a 2D game generator with an editor, and expecting those people to share the games . Not multiplayer yet.

The lightsail instance sometimes just hangs and we have to reboot it when people performing simple action like login or queryng API (we have a simple express / nextjs app)

[Macha]

A Wordpress install that makes it to the top of HN can use 1GB of RAM

[Terretta]

I haven't checked recently, but previously a Lightsail account was a full AWS account. Tie route 53, app or API gateway, and some instances.

That said, for your use case, you might want the predictability and guarantee of having no "noisy neighbors" on an instance. While most VM providers don't offer that (you have to go to fully dedicated machine), AWS does, so keep that in mind as well.

For BYOL (bring your own hosting labor), Vultr is a lesser known but great choice.

[artdigital]

I have all my small stuff on a Vultr managed k8s with the cheapest nodes.

Big fan of Vultr, I like them a lot, but got bare metal stuff Hetzner is going to be cheaper

[slyall]

Are you using Lightsail rather than normal EC2 and other AWS services?

Just wondering if your limits just apply to lightsail or normal stuff too.