What’s the least pain in the ass way to host redis+a websoc…

Samuel

@samuel.fm

What’s the least pain in the ass way to host redis+a websocket listener server? fly.io?

Samuel 27 Oct 2023

asking for a friend

redsolver 27 Oct 2023

If you want to scale, fly.io is a great option but you need to think more about your architecture. But do not use their hosted Redis (powered by upstash), it's slow and expensive. And be aware of how much bandwidth you need. The least pain in the ass is just setting everything up on one VPS

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Samuel 27 Oct 2023

yeah I’ve learned my lesson with upstash (via Vercel) I’m worried about scaling (or at least, I think I should be worried). I feel so out my depth here lol I’m a div centerer at heart

redsolver 27 Oct 2023

I'm using Hetzner CPX instances for my VPS needs, they are very good value and always online.

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Samuel 28 Oct 2023

Good to know, thanks

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦28 Oct 2023

I think I'm gonna try Hetzner soon, because I'm running out of disk space and it seems much cheaper than the Swiss one I'm using (€5 for 40 GB or 80GB from €8-9, vs. €12 for 40 GB now, + 20 TB bandwidth vs. 3 TB)… What about the ARM instances, have you tried those?

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redsolver 28 Oct 2023

I'm running binaries compiled on my local dev machine on the VPS, so using a different architecture would make that a lot more painful. So from my limited experience with the ARM ones I would say they are better value, but make sure your software can run there.

lykron 28 Oct 2023

DigitalOcean always seems to be like the best option in my opinion. The core products price is extremely reasonable and any managed service (such as Redis) doesn’t cost too much above the underlying resources you use.