Ask HN: Anyone running production systems on a dedicated server?

I’m lookkng at dedicated servers from HostGator, Vultr, 1&1, Hostwinds... companies like that.

The dedicated servers seem very powerful and cheap compared to cloud hosting. Anyone got experience running produ running production systems on dedicated hosts? What has your experience been like? Pros/cons?

Recommend for or against?

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lettergram 7y ago ↗

I have on online.net and vulr. The problem is backups and autoscaling. If you know your work is constant and you have a cloud based backup that can spinup, then you're fine. Otherwise, you run the risk of going down due to anything from running out of bandwidth, RAM, etc.

iamNumber4 7y ago ↗

I have many dedicated servers for client production systems. I have found it is cheaper than a virtual private server. I also feel I have more 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 would recommend you look at how you will need to scale in the future and not paint yourself into a corner. If you do on premises correctly migrating to a cloud server is painless and vise versa