[Dxspider-support] AWS hosting pricing

[Christopher Schlegel]

Thanks for the explanation. Will help me adjust the resources in Proxmox.

Chris WI3W

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 03:07 Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> No. It uses the superb event library in a website creation system called
> Mojolicious. I believe it, in turn, uses a venerable C based library called
> EV.
>
> There is a glimmer in my eye of putting a skinnable web framework into DXS
> which would enable the use of websocket based connections. But it will take
> some research to figure out how to do this. DXS could present an actual
> website directly but that would likely impact on its basic functionality
> and reduce its capacity for moving data around. Getting a websocket
> presentation of the user interface is moving higher up my todo list.
>
> But, to possibly answer your implied question: it does fork sub processes
> to deal with potentially blocking commands e.g. show/dx, show/log or
> anything that searches through the various potentially large chunks of
> historical data that DXS keeps. On windows based perls this is achieved
> “under the hood” by the perl translating a unix style fork into a thread
> instead.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 5 Apr 2025, at 01:47, Christopher Schlegel via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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