VPS providers options for Alfresco install

[douglascrp]

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 servers, with backups kept on Amazon S3, because I consider this a reliable service.

If the server dies for any reason, at least I can count on the backup to re-establish the service somewhere.

Currently I use VPSDime - Cheap VPS Hosting to host my demo and development servers, but I can not use their VPS for production servers because of the disk size limitations.

With VPSDime you have to upgrade the server instance in order to have more disk available.

VPSDime works really well for this purpose.

I got two possible options so far, that are Cloud Computing – DreamHost and VPS Cloud RAM: Cloud hosting with enhanced RAM - OVH

Both providers offer more freedom when it comes to performance and disks.

Please, let me know if you have experience with this kind of servers, and what you recommend or do not recommend, and the reasons.

I'll keep this thread updated with my new findings.

Thank you so much in advance.

[iwkse]

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

[cesarista]

We use dedicated servers in OVH and Hetzner.

Regards.

--C.

[douglascrp]

Thank you.

[hseritt]

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

[douglascrp]

I'll check that option.

Thank you.

[douglascrp]

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.

[douglascrp]

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.