Where to Deploy NextCloud
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@JaredBusch Just a curious question, are you spinning these VMs up on Vultr or locally hosted at your co-lo?
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@FATeknollogee said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@JaredBusch Just a curious question, are you spinning these VMs up on Vultr or locally hosted at your co-lo?
We do both. NTG has them on both a @Scale HC3 cluster at @colocationamerica and on Vultr SATA VM.
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Thx for the info.
I haven't yet checked pricing, but you said the sweet spot for storage on Vultr is 1TB or less?
Above 1TB, one probably should bring the install in house (aka co-lo, on-prem etc)?
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@FATeknollogee said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
Thx for the info.
I haven't yet checked pricing, but you said the sweet spot for storage on Vultr is 1TB or less?
Correct. I'll fork this when at a computer.
Vultr has super sweet 125GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB plans on SATA drives. Ranging from $5 at the cheapest to $40 at the top. For NextCloud you'll be super lean on memory at the 125GB plan but it should run with enough swap. But at the 1GB RAM/250GB plan NC11 runs great with plenty of spare memory overhead.
If you can justify the $30 750GB tier, that's the one that first gets you double vCPUs so is a nice, big jump in performance from the smaller tiers.
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@FATeknollogee said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
Above 1TB, one probably should bring the install in house (aka co-lo, on-prem etc)?
Not necessarily. Just that Vultr stops being a special case and other cloud providers are roughly equally competitive.
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If you have a hyperconverged platform like a @Scale HC3 you have a really awesome foundation for @NextCloud that is hard to beat. It really comes down heavily to what your existing in house infrastructure is like.
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These VMs (on Vultr) are being deployed using the "Storage Instance" and not on "VC2" which uses SSD?
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@FATeknollogee said in Where to Deploy NextCloud:
These VMs (on Vultr) are being deployed using the "Storage Instance" and not on "VC2" which uses SSD?
Correct. SSD is all but useless for this use case. But the SATA capacity is perfect.
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Wonder why I only see 125GB SATA in my Vultr account?
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@FATeknollogee said in Where to Deploy NextCloud:
Wonder why I only see 125GB SATA in my Vultr account?
Only available in New York at the moment.
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@FATeknollogee said in Where to Deploy NextCloud:
Wonder why I only see 125GB SATA in my Vultr account?
Check all locations. They only show what they currently have capacity for. Changes by the hour as they rack more. Yesterday it was only NY that had larger sizes.
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Thx for the heads up @JaredBusch & @scottalanmiller I was looking at LA only!
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@FATeknollogee to answer your original question, I host mine on site or in colo so far, simply because the capacity already exists for any client that is using it.
If I need to recommend it to a client without infrastructure, Vultr storage node will be the first suggestion for most deployment sizes as Scott mentioned.
