Amazon maybe a bit pricey, unless you want to renew it yearly with a new CC (one-year free period with a new card). But they provide top notch service. And a t2.tiny instance can run a forum nicely - just check xgn.com.au
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Smart move! That place should have heaps of dormant resources available.w00dsy wrote:He's trying to remember the password to his old Geocities page then we'll move it there.
nutty wrote:Whats the SQL database size? What kinda bandwidth we pull?
Lets just setup a AWS instance and build up a single server, AWS availability on EC2 in Syd would be plenty enough
$20/month is twice what we pay now. So not an option considering the forums are slowly dying. I will keep trying these bastards.ysu wrote:nutty wrote:Whats the SQL database size? What kinda bandwidth we pull?
Lets just setup a AWS instance and build up a single server, AWS availability on EC2 in Syd would be plenty enough
Exactly what I've recommended. xgn runs fine on a t2.small instance, which costs about $20 AUD /mo all up. But it's possible to try something smaller, even. Altho I'd not really recommend that, the lack of memory on those can be a pain in the butt.
You can also buy a reserved instance once you're sure a certain size works, and save quite a bit.
Traffic costs are negligible (we run over 20 servers, and the traffic is about 40 bucks while we pay in the thousands for everything all up).
The server can be set up with a 8-10GB storage, altho I'd advise more, because on t2 (burstable) instances get their baseline I/O performance based on the size! So put a 30-50GB storage under (maybe necessary anyway if there's enough uploaded media to store), and it'll perform better.
But everything is burstable on a t2, cpu, i/o, network...altho network is a weak side of it.
Here's some info on the ec2 pricing - don't worry about storage & bandwidth prices, they're negligible.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
Yay, looks like the posts are remaining read as well.norbs wrote:I think it is sorted.
Well, I bloody hope.