Hi,
I'm running about 250k Pops in Brazil at the moment and looking to scale up.
I'm running it on a Amazon CDN at the moment which is costing me too much.
So, I'm looking to test Vultr (Dallas location) and see if I can get similar or better performance for a lower price.
Does anyone know:
[1] What Sized Server I should get initially
[2] Any Good Resources on Vultr Setup and Keeping Track of Server Performance
[3] I'm also open to hiring someone to help me set it up fast so I can test ASAP
How much is Cloudfront/S3 costing you? I would have thought for that volume you'd be looking at ~$1?
In any case, especially with LATAM traffic, you should be looking for a CDN with points of presence (PoPs) in Brazil, Chile etc. I would recommend Cloudflare for this -- https://www.cloudflare.com/network/
Also, the origin server is almost unimportant here. The reality is 99.9% of that traffic will serve (should serve) from the CDN servers, so even a $5/mo Vultr server would be under very little load.
On the other hand, if you're using PHP scripts to make some decisions for every page load, that's a different story. But, a small $10-20/mo server with Nginx and well-tuned PHP should have no problems with 250k page loads a day.
Sorry I should have been more clear - I'm sending 250,000 pop traffic a day
The pop is a HTML file about 190kb in size
Everything is on that file (css, using base64 images etc) so no external files
And Amazon Cloudfront is costing about $20/day
Which is about 1/3 of the profit for that campaign.
The campaign can scale up more - but before I do, I want to reduce this cost.
UPDATE:
[1] I'm testing reducing the download per pop (testing a page which I got down from 190kb to 74kb)
[2] I'm also going to test using Cloudflare.