[Dxspider-support] Cloud hosting

[Tobias Wellnitz]

Hi Kelly,

I used for some time Amazon Webservices (AWS), but I found them rather
expensive.

Two years ago I moved all my servers to Netcup.eu. They have very
competitive prices, excellent performance but still with decent support
hotline.

My WebCluster, DXHeat.com (which uses DXSpider to communicate with other
nodes) is running on a VPS with 12GByte Ram, 4 CPU Cores, 240GByte SSD for
just 15€ / month.
They also have smaller and hence less expensive VPS. See:
https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

Netcup recently sent me some 5€ discount codes. I hope they are still
valid. Feel free to try them.
36nc14704289306
36nc14704289309
36nc14704289305
36nc14704289308
36nc14704289307
36nc14704289300

To give you an idea of how to estimate your VPS:

DXHeat has on average 300 - 500 users connected simultaneously (only
through the Website - no Telnet).

The following services are running
- Nginx + Python Django (Serve Web Sites)
- Node.js (serve realtime push of DXSpots into the browsers)
- DXSpider
- Redis.io (NoSQL Database - mainly used for PubSub as the glue between all
the services)
- Elasticsearch (Callsign wildcard search)
- PostgresDB (Main Database with currently 33,7 Mio DX Spots)
- Celery (Asynchronous Jobs to update the callsign statistics in the
database)

typically consume
0.9 Average CPU Load (across the 4 cores)
6,5 Gyte Ram
74Gbyte Harddisk (mainly the databases)


I hope this helps.

73 Tobias
EA4/DH1TW



On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR <lists at w1nr.net> wrote:

> I have been using http://www.linode.com/ for years. Full VM for as little
> as $10/mo. No blocked ports or services. Static IP addresses. Just about
> any OS or distro you like.
>
> Mike, W1NR
>
>
> On 08/05/2016 11:21 AM, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
>
>> In an earlier email, Mike said:
>>
>> But I DO want to get off my hosting service and get moved into Google's
>>> cloud.  That's in-progress.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Right now, I host my server at home on an old relic of a dell desktop. I
>> only ever have at most 20 connected users. I do store the spots in a
>> small mySQL database (about 1 Gig) for historical search and a little
>> web app that shows the most recent spots in a mobile friendly table.
>> (just browse to http://dx.scarcnj.org to see the resulting table)
>>
>>
>> What would the advantage be to moving to google hosting (other than
>> reliability). I'm getting a monthly cost of about $30 to do everything I
>> want on google cloud and I'm not sure that would support telnet access
>> at that price. What other VM/Cloud hosting platforms do other sysops use
>> and what machine model are you basing it on?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> and 73 de Kelly
>>
>> KB2SYD
>>
>>
>>
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