Cloud Hosting for Perforce?

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Hello everyone,

My team and I are using Perforce to collaborate from the distance on our project - the software has been amazing and would love to keep using it.
We have a problem with cloud hosting and if you are using it, would love to hear your opinion.

AWS seems crazy expensive, even though I heard it’s free: when I try to sign up, I get an estimate of $582/month…

AWS Pricing estimate.jpg
We also tried Assembla, their service is good, but the customer support is horrible and their pricing is “equivocal”: I had 2 users signed up and they were trying to billing me for 5, the price on their website is in $ and they were billing me in € (which is 20% more expensive… totally not a joke in the long run, especially for an indie studio).

So these two doesn’t seem an option…

Do you have any suggestion?

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You don’t need a c5.4xlarge server for this unless you have like, a thousand users on it, P4D is very efficient. Even a $5/month linux vps from Linode will work just fine. The only thing you really need to worry about is the server having sensible upload speed and using only SSD storage.

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Thank you very much! Your response is really helpful, I appreciate it.

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We use a Droplet server from Digital Ocean and it only costs 5$ a month. Compared to what using Github would cost or having a physical server running, it is great. I still have tons of issues with using Perforce but they aren’t related to the server.

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Thank you! I was evaluating Digital Ocean yesterday and it’s great to hear that it works well. I’ll give it a try, thank you!