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VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:33:36 GMT

Good afternoon.I'm doing a research on reliable and, if possible, cheap VPS providers I can use to install Alfresco.Customers (usually small companies) want to have servers out of their infra, but they want not to pay much for the service, and for this reason, AWS EC2 is out.My idea is to use cheap

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

iwkse — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:22:16 GMT

Hi Douglas,

we're actually using OVH which is quite reliable, for backup we use a NAS (100 GB) connected to the dedicated server. In this case it's not cloud stuff which I never tried, but as I see it seems cheaper.

Right now such dedicated server isn't available in OVH as it's an old offer so you cannot have a full details about it. The price is around 80 euro. (excluding NAS)

The server is an i5-2400 (3.10 GHz) 16 GB of RAM and 2TB of disk space.

I'm valuing better (tested) alternatives as well.

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cesarista — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:53:22 GMT

We use dedicated servers in OVH and Hetzner.

Regards.

--C.

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douglascrp — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:36:57 GMT

Thank you.

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douglascrp — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:37:04 GMT

Thank you.

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douglascrp — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:13:31 GMT

iwkse _

I found this one Dedicated server EG-16 | INFRASTRUCTURE Range - OVH , which I consider good enough for our clients use case.

And that one already includes a good space for backups, so, no need to attach another disk for this.

So far, the best option I have found.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

ycoulon — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:38:13 GMT

Hi,

I don't know if it's available outside France but you could also look at SoYouStart (OVH Group) dedicated server : The server for all your projects - So you Start

There are a bit smaller than OVH.com dedicated server but also cheaper, for example this one : Server SYS-IP-1 - So you Start

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

iwkse — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:41:57 GMT

That's interesting..must be the new OVH solutions, I will read more about it. Thanks

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iwkse — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:44:29 GMT

Yes OVH should be available everywhere. SYS seems interesting..do you know experience with it?

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ycoulon — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:51:34 GMT

My company got 2 SyS server.

The main difference between OVH and SyS is the services include with the server, for example KVM is not included in SyS offer.

The manager is more simple than OVH but works fine.

In the end the server are hosted in the same datacenter as OVH.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:13:21 GMT

Thanks Yann Coulon for sharing that info.

Are those servers used for Alfresco deployment?

If so, how is the performance?

Can you add some numbers, like, number of users, repository size?

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ycoulon — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:28:46 GMT

One of the two is for a client but not sure it's already in use. Don't have any information about the size in the future.

The other (Server E5-SAT-2-32 - So you Start) is used for docker-based deployment for my company projects.

This runs several Alfresco instance in docker for non-performance related test, only small access windows and low size repo. I end up running 3 Alfresco container (all-in-one) smoothly maybe I can run more.

I didn't have any stats for large repo in daily use.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:38:17 GMT

Awesome.

Please, let me know if you get more information about it.

Thank you so much for your contribution.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

hseritt — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:50:27 GMT

Not sure if this fits, Douglas but I use Linode. For 40USD/month, I get root access to my own vhost which has 4cpu/8GB memory. This does quite well with Alfresco. Of course if your Solr requires more horsepower, AWS would be the way to go. But ... you did say "Cheap" 😉

All the best, HS

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:37:31 GMT

I'll check that option.

Thank you.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:50:53 GMT

I'm following with my tests, but only for development.

For this, I'm using a Scaleway VPS, and the only thing I can say is that it is a no go for Alfresco.

RAM is ok, disk also, but when it comes processors power, it's a shame.

So, my advice for anyone reading this is, run away from Scaleway.

Re: VPS providers options for Alfresco install

douglascrp — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:31:25 GMT

Update.

We bought an instance of this type Server SYS-IP-1 - So you Start

So far, so good.

It's working pretty quick.

I'll post more update as soon as I get feedback from final users.