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    Multiple cheap VPSes vs a few reliable VPSes

    I currently have a budget for a total of $50, and am looking to add VPSes at each coast of the US.

    Would it be better to have several cheap VPSes at each side, instead of buying from a extremely reputable provider, and having one on each coast?

    I mean, even at reputable providers, disks will crash, systems will fail, .etc, .etc.

    With multiple VPSes, I could have two on each side, and one in central US as a failover. Since my DNS plan includes failover and GeoDNS, I could do a round-robin setup for each coast, along with the failover in case things really get dicey.

    What do you think?

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    I prefer multiple option.
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    Go with multiple ones.
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    I would also suggest multiple option but with decent low priced providers like buyvm, prometeus etc

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    Why would anyone make the server management harder? Because that's what'll happen. That's not wise at all. Go with one quality VPS. For example, one good VPS from LiquidWeb will be far better than several cheap ones. You can get a nice VPS for $50.
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    I would say, something between them, not very cheap and not very expensive, maybe you can divide it to two VPS
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    Quote Originally Posted by StellaEV View Post
    Would it be better to have several cheap VPSes at each side, instead of buying from a extremely reputable provider, and having one on each coast?
    Sure, it is better to have several vps but just remove the "cheap" word.

    If this is critical, you don't just go for cheap vps.

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    For $50 you can get 5 decent VPS'es at $10 each. Place 2 on the coasts and 3 inland should work as a good failover network. Also don't forget to check the VPS offers section.

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    i vote for 2 VPS, one on each coast...

    As you said, even reputable vps hosting companies will have downtimes sooner or later...
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    Quote Originally Posted by NT-James View Post
    For $50 you can get 5 decent VPS'es at $10 each.
    No. A good VPS is going to cost more than $10. That includes nothing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kpmedia View Post
    No. A good VPS is going to cost more than $10. That includes nothing.
    Low price doesn't mean low quality. Just saying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by budi1413 View Post
    Low price doesn't mean low quality. Just saying.
    Yet, it almost always does.

    There's a reason generalities exist. It's because they're generally true!
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    Are the 2 VPS's on the West and East coast mirrors?
    Perhaps that's redundancy enough if they are. If one goes down then sure that coast has a little more latency until it comes back up but it doesn't seem like that should be a deal killer unless it is mission critical that the response time is very low.

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    I want to add this:
    - Odds a budget VPS crashes = likely
    - Odds a non-budget VPS crashes = not as likely
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    I would say go with a few VPS from reputable providers. The more servers you have to manage, the more there is unnecessary overhead and possible points of failure.
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    I would say go for multiple options

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