Estimated Costs?

psychobunny

If you do have SSH access and are able to install all the dependencies required, I think what you have is enough for a small forum for starters. Definitely should consider getting your own vps when you're able to though

teh_g

I've got about 100k pageviews a month (according to NodeBB stats) with a pretty small number of users (apparently they are really active though). My $10 DigitalOcean server is probably more than enough for that. I'd imagine I could go down to the $5 one if needed.

MBFTOM

I've got it installed now

went for the £20 server, but think it's overkill as I don't really have any traffic yet!

julian

Definitely you're overprovisioned, but that is not a bad thing! It is good to have excess resources

Sometimes on $5 digitalocean servers, things can get cramped and the OOM killer might get invoked and kill off a process like nodebb, or the database

scottalanmiller

@teh_g said in Estimated Costs?:

I've got about 100k pageviews a month (according to NodeBB stats) with a pretty small number of users (apparently they are really active though). My $10 DigitalOcean server is probably more than enough for that. I'd imagine I could go down to the $5 one if needed.

You could go to $5 on Vultr for sure. Anything you can do on DO, you can do for half that price on Vultr or Linode.

jongarrison

@julian I've had a server under light load on a $5 Digital Ocean for over a year without a crash. The trick seems to be large amounts of swap.

julian

@jongarrison Same here, although occasionally some get their processes killed. I honestly don't know why because they're all built the same

Wesleigh Walker

@MBFTOM

Hey there,

Not sure if you've found your solution as of yet, but if you haven't I would almost certainly take a look at the wonderful VPSdime. I'm not endorsed by them in any way, but I can never praise their service enough. Their prices are actually really, really good as well.

Their standard packages offer you 6GB of RAM for every $7 you spend. ($7 for 6GB, $14 for 12GB, etc.)

Full SSH as standard.

Let's say you use the 12GB package, you're looking at $168/year. That's pretty good.

Bri

@Wesleigh-Walker thanks for the tip! The link you provided is actually supposed to be a .com Is vpsdime.com pretty stable? I don't know how they're doing it considering DO is $10 for 1GB and Linode is $5 for 1GB

Wesleigh Walker

Hi @Bri - yes, that's supposed to be .com - whoops!

Yes, I've never had an issue with VPSDime. I think I've had downtime twice, for a total of an hour, in something like the last 9 months