[Dxspider-support] AWS hosting pricing

[Christopher Schlegel]

Dirk, is DXSpider multi threaded?

Chris WI3W

On Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 14:40 Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> I have not tried AWS for several years. But when I found that DXSpider did
> not run very well (neither did it run well on Google's equivalent). As far
> as I can tell this was due to the large number of (small) disk transfers.
> If you are intending to try this out and you expect a large no of users,
> then you need to test it thoroughly - loading it as best you can. With a
> lot of users you will probably need at least 2GB RAM. This is necessary to
> provide some headroom for the asynchronous processes that, for example
> sh/dx uses. But you only need one processor.  And 30GB disk is plenty.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 2025-04-04 18:09, Rudy Bakalov via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> I got quite a few questions about hosting servers on AWS so I will answer
> them publicly:
>
> I run the following EC2 instances
> 1/t3.micro (2 x CPUs + 1Mib RAM), 5 Gbps network, 30 Gb SSD @ 3000 OPS,
> Ubuntu Server. This runs DXspider at dxs.n2wq.com and my private Mumble
> server for remote audio from VE3EID
> 2/t3.medium (2 x CPU + 4 Mib RAM), 5 Gbps network, 100 Gb SSD @ 3000 OPS,
> Windows Server Data Center edition. This runs 2 x CC Clusters at
> cluster.n2wq.com
>
> I signed up for a 3-year commitment at $0.04320/hour which cover 100% of
> my run rate.
>
> Happy to answer any other AWS questions.
>
> Rudy N2WQ
>
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