Gud, are there funds needed?
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Vortex - May 02, 2020 9:18:32 pm PDT #4244 of 4671
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Gudanov - May 03, 2020 6:40:46 am PDT #4245 of 4671
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I don't think so. If we went with AWS and reserved a 2 CPU 1 GB RAM webserver and a 2 CPU 1 GB RAM database for 3 years, it would be $327. That breaks down to $9 a month. We might use some S3 storage as well for archived material, but that would be very low cost. Add a little for DNS service and maybe $11 a month. I'm not sure how that compares to current hosting cost. That won't provide failover if an Amazon data center goes down, but that seems pretty livable.
We could also just host the database on the webserver machine and cut costs even more, but that using the AWS database service means they manage the DB and backups and such which is nice.
Jesse - May 03, 2020 6:59:44 am PDT #4246 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I try to avoid Amazon in general, but what kind of options are there?
Gudanov - May 03, 2020 8:51:16 am PDT #4247 of 4671
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You mean other hosting options? Digital Ocean is a good option, probably similar in price but without the managed database (unless they've added that). There's also Azure, but I don't know what their pricing is. Probably not too different. Google has cloud services as well.
Gudanov - May 03, 2020 8:52:15 am PDT #4248 of 4671
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Pretty much everyone uses Amazon Web Services every day even if they aren't aware of it.
Jesse - May 03, 2020 9:48:11 am PDT #4249 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that's what I mean -- is there any avoiding it? If the answer is no, that's fine.
Gudanov - May 03, 2020 9:59:22 am PDT #4250 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Digital Ocean does have managed databases now. Looks like it would be about $20 a month for webserver and database.
Gudanov - May 03, 2020 10:13:27 am PDT #4251 of 4671
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Vultr doesn't have a managed database, but an instance big enough for both webserver and database might be possible at $10/mo.
Gudanov - May 03, 2020 10:19:13 am PDT #4252 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Azure doesn't look practical for small deployments.
Pix - May 03, 2020 11:52:44 am PDT #4253 of 4671
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Thank you for all of this, Gud. Let us know if we can donate via Jesse to help.