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This, or Vultr as well, they are also very similar.
80%+ of traffic is UK, is a USA server wise?
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I have around 7(?) sites on a $10 DigitalOcean VPS. Something like 200k page views per month across them, I'm not sure on that. But with an optimized server, you can run a lot.
XenForo, WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress, MyBB, IPS4, Oxwall, Ghost; all of those are on my server with decent traffic.
Then 4GB ram / 4 CPU will work for you (y).
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Do Linode or Digital Ocean offer daily/hourly backups as standard? This is also something you might want to consider.
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I'm on linode atm, sure they've had a wobble in 2015, but resolved it way quicker than I could 
I run a 16Gb and 4GB instance's for an IPB site. They offer a daily backup for not much more. You could do more if you wanted, with a slave db/rsync, abundant network provision.
I'll be swapping to a UK Owner - UK Hosted provider this year after safe harbour collapsed as I have other 'projects' that hold data. It's one less thing to think about, regardless of how it all pans out. Finding them (uk owned) is 'fun', testing them is revealing Linode and DO out network most of the big names by quite a long way and not just one or two day blips.
I was in a far cheaper DC 1/4 rack, before linode, running my own dedicated servers. I got a 200ms bump in resp time moving up a tier of data centre and into linode for 'lesser' 'vps' instances and that was 3+ years ago. Some bump from SAS to SSD... but mostly network quality.
I also have nodes out in digital ocean, I'm currently about to test with a UK openstack setup, they even have ARM options, which is now centos7... centminmod experiment too
I tried one on the netherlands in Dec and it was very good performance and cost comparable to a 'linode', with some nice value add features for less headache than the AWS behomoth.
HTH.
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I forgot, the only gotcha I hit was one late night I wanted to resize one of the DB's. This is probably long since done and dusted, but they'd run out of 8's as was, so I had to either skip or jump higher. I waited a few days
I run a 16Gb and 4GB instance's for an IPB site. They offer a daily backup for not much more. You could do more if you wanted, with a slave db/rsync, abundant network provision.
I'll be swapping to a UK Owner - UK Hosted provider this year after safe harbour collapsed as I have other 'projects' that hold data. It's one less thing to think about, regardless of how it all pans out. Finding them (uk owned) is 'fun', testing them is revealing
Linode and DO out network most of the big names by quite a long way and not just one or two day blips.I was in a far cheaper DC 1/4 rack, before linode, running my own dedicated servers. I got a 200ms bump in resp time moving up a tier of data centre and into linode for 'lesser' 'vps' instances and that was 3+ years ago. Some bump from SAS to SSD... but mostly network quality.
I also have nodes out in digital ocean, I'm currently about to test with a UK openstack setup, they even have ARM options, which is now centos7... centminmod experiment too
I tried one on the netherlands in Dec and it was very good performance and cost comparable to a 'linode', with some nice value add features for less headache than the AWS behomoth.
HTH.
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I forgot, the only gotcha I hit was one late night I wanted to resize one of the DB's. This is probably long since done and dusted, but they'd run out of 8's as was, so I had to either skip or jump higher. I waited a few days