Hi all, I’m getting ready to create a new Discourse community. For the next months to a year I expect it to be fairly small, but I’d like to make sure I get set up on the best possible service. I’ve seen the comparison chart and I’m wondering: Which services do people think are best positioned for…

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I used upcloud in the past and I thought they were fine. Performance seemee to be good. I’m currently using Phoenix NAP and have a inexpensive dedicated server from them which more than meets my need. Needed their help a couple of times because I messed up the OS and they were more than willing to j…

I use GCP for my forum. Inexpensive, and it’s great. The free tier gives you a e2-micro server for free, but the resources are really low, so if you have the patience to wait 3 hours for a rebuild, you can do that (for the free plan). DO looks great and Contabo looks very worth it. More details ca…

[image] mk0r: I’m located in the US West Coast and would want the server to be in that region Why? I’m living in Finland, northern Europe, and it doesn’t play any roll if I’m using center in San Francisco, London or anywhere in Europe. Only reason I’m using nowadays Helsinki with Hetzner is I…

Or maybe it’s so good there that we have no idea how bad it actually is out here :slight_smile: My only experience is with more exotic countries. We had a customer from Egypt :egypt: and the connectivity anywhere outside of Egypt was not good. We made it with an EU based Azure in the end (the US wo…

[image] Tomas Vavrda: Aren’t you sitting on a transatlantic optical cable out there As much as the whole Europe is. I know this is very much 1st world point on view, and because of that it may be totally wrong, but I wouldn’t compare Egypt and its rural areas and USA. But again — I don’t kno…

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