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Ask HN: Anyone Running Production Systems On A Dedicated Server?

The dedicated servers seem very powerful and cheap compared to cloud hosting. Has anyone had experience with running production systems on dedicated servers? What was your experience? Gaming Pros/cons?Recommend for or against?

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I have many dedicated servers for client production systems. It is much cheaper than a virtual private server. I also feel that I have greater control over the infrastructure. However I do use online backup services like tarsnap for Disaster recovery. I also have dedicated replacement hardware in case of a failure.Really the answer to your question is: it depends.Some times a virtual cloud server makes sense, sometimes a on premise server running kubernetes is the answer. I recommend that you consider how you will scale in the future. It is very easy to migrate to a cloud server if you do everything on premises correctly.

lettergram on Aug 29, 2018 | prev [-]

I have online.net, vulr. The problem is backups, and autoscaling. If you know that your work is ongoing and you have a cloud-based back up that can spinup, you are fine. Otherwise, you risk going down due any reason, such as running low on bandwidth or RAM.