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frankgan's avatar

How to choose virtual machine

Hi, I'm software engineer from Taiwan.

I have run a Laravel project at the Google Cloud Platform's VM. I follow the introduction to use the cheapest plan e2-medium (e2-micro can't run my project).

But I still pay $2000 New Taiwan Dollar (for me it's expensive LOL) per month.

Have any suggestion virtual machine or platform? Like AWS, or Digital Ocean etc. ? (Need support Load Balancer, Firewall and docker) My Project use docker to management Laravel, MySQL and Nginx.

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zanix's avatar

@frankgan You can check maybe Hetzner they are one of the cheapest VPS providers. They have quite cheap VPS servers starting from I think 3-4$ per month. They have options for load balancers, firewalls, and for Docker I'm not sure.

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