I’ve heard bad things about the Elixir installer from Digital Ocean.
sashaafm
ckhrysze
@AstonJ Ideally something under $50 a month while developing; full production would ideally be under $1000 a month. I have some rudimentary knowledge of the various skills typically labeled devops, but as the strongest on the team in that regard as well as being the lead developer, as little time spent with hosting is the larger concern for me.
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Mandemus
When I looked at the docs for it they were referencing a rather old version of Elixir. Not sure if that’s changed.
Same here. I’ve used http://datashack.net in the past. Can get some impressive hardware for cheap. My last box was a 12 core 24gig machine for $60 a month.
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AstonJ
How busy are the production sites? If a dedicated server like the one @Mandemus linked to would handle them then your company could be saving thousands.
Granted dedicated servers are a little more involved but you could hire a consultant to set them up for you and show you how to make daily back-ups, restore, add new domains/apps, emails, etc
I use a single (64GB) server for all of my personal sites - and they are in various languages; PHP (Wordpress and some of my forums) Ruby/Rails, Static HTML/CSS and soon Elixir/Erlang.
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Calamitous
Has anybody used https://www.scaleway.com/? They offer low-cost machines with SSD and ARM, I wonder how that plays with BEAM?
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NobbZ
In theory, it shouldn’t matter if you have ARM or x86, take a look at the nerves-project which aims to run a fullstack elixir environment ontop of a minified linux kernel on one-board-computers. Also I already compiled erlang, elixir, node-js and phoenix from sourcce on my Raspberry Pi3 (driven by Raspbian), just to realize that node-js needs most time to compile among them. I can’t tell exact numbers, but erlang and elixir together took about 1.5h while I had to run node-js compilation overnight.
A first test of starting a fresh phoenix application was succesful, so that I want to do some further testing when I’m back home.
If you already have a domain or can buy one cheaply, the offers made by scaleaway could be used for first prototypes and then later on increasing the power of the platform and scaling horizontally as needed seems affordable.
I’d like to see some stresstesting as it was done with phoenix on that 40 core server in the 2 million connections test a couple of weeks ago…
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Mandemus
Linnode is one alternative to scaleaway. I do remember scaleaway mentioning somewhere that you can use them as an S3 compatible service.
A tiny SSD VPS is good if you want to just toy around and learn, but then so is running a HyperV/VMware linux instance on your local machine.
http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/vps
That is a popular vps benchmark site. Still, nothing will really beat a dedicated server if you’re serious about your app.
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Hoegbo
Did get a propper server ar a “local” to norway datacenter that has some certifications I need. (and are not too keen on maintaining myself)
Works like a charm 12 core 64 gb ram. centos(I thought I was using debian but was in fact centos)
Using another one for the smaller apps and a small vm as a test server. Halved my costs. 
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AstonJ
Hoegbo
I am using Webuset.no located in Norway. Best support I have ever had. price roughly $250 a month. running CentOS.
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