I have been trying to find a good place to host my FBX to GLB converter without breaking the bank.
Amazon AWS was ok to deploy on but their free tier VM keeps freezing after like the 10th animation conversion.
I really wanna host my app but because it’s a free service I’m not trying to spend a couple hundred a year just so others can convert their models…
Any ideas? I’d be down for like $50 a year or something but other than that I’m out.
I use Digital Ocean,
They’re cheap and have a ton of good features.
Linux vps starts at 5€ a month (excluding vat)
And includes 1TB free bandwidth per month.
They also have an app platform that can load and deploy many different apps directly from your own github repo, including nodejs servers.
How much computing power is that though?
The app is converting batches of FBXs into a single GLB with all the animations retargeted to the new mesh so it kind of uses a little bit of CPU! I think that is my main bottle neck, is that its kind of a intensive app when in use.
I’m wondering if it would be best to just host the docker images for the front and backend then just let people run their own version of the app. I already have them configured to run on both a windows and linux enviroment so that might just be the best solution to make this accessible to all.
And keep in mind Im an absolute noob in production deployments. That is usually someone else’s business, I just make stuff not deploy it XD. So I have no real idea of what my needs are or what’s best practice, just know enough to get it done.
kimsufi (OVH) have good prices and you are bare metal (if that is your cup of tea…)
I mean, this is not exactly high end hardware but… it’s cheap!
and you get to do whatever you want on it (including selecting your window operating system) 
my bad I read USD50 a month … well then you have this sort of thing:
I personally use them quite a lot… bare metal, so no surprises except one’s lack of anticipation in terms of potential load, etc. You quite literally “own” the machine - with no variable on cpu/gpu/disk/bandwith prices… and nasty surprises at the end of the month
I will check that out thanks! 
out of curiosity… your converter runs on a compiled language or smth slower? Might help determine the “computing power” you need?
Python for the most part.
@plopidou It looks like most of the servers I would be willing to pay for are located in Europe with that company. 
Got any similar solutions in America?
hey
Kamatera was looking ok until I saw they still proposed centos 7/8 as OS solutions… -_- Also, they seem to be 100% virtualised so less bang for your buck in terms of raw power (but then again some stuff is done for you, at least it says so on the tin).
After window licking for a little while, I am genuinely surprised at the costs in the US. Blimey. Then again, I am sure I have missed a lot as I’ve really not spent that much time searching.
Latency is an issue for you? I mean I run some nodes in the US (east coast), and the ping is sub 100ms… amply good enough for ssh and the like, surely?
a nice little tool to - perhaps - help you decide:
I still suggest DigitalOcean 
used them for years without problems.
You can see a full overview of their different VPS’s (droplets) here
They have datacenter regions all over. (in the US they have in both NY and SF)
Several linux based OS’s each with multiple versions available too.
On top of that they have a dashboard with live useage monitoring of each single droplet you create. (graphs)
This is especially useful to see why your app freezes, is it really the CPU or is it the memory etc.
(There’s also disk useage and bandwidth)
yeah DigitalOcean are very good as well …
But I enojoy bare metal so much that I cannot help but advise it 
Huh? Should I or shouldn’t I mention the time where I lost everything from my OVH server a few years ago due to… the entire building being burned down to a crisp 
I’m sorry but even after a decade of using OVH (mostly satisfied) this last episode made me change provider. I now have CH hosting (with some guarantees that this sort of shit won’t happen).
sure and there could be a meteor strike, a nuclear attack, or a tsunami, or an alien invasion…
all I know is I’ve never had issues with them. Disclaimer: just a user, I am not affiliated with them in any way, shape or form
Well, we all had our user experience (and as I said, for many years I was happy with it).
Hello @Pryme8, can you please let me know which plugin you are using for converting FBX to GLB?
Thanks in advance.
One I made myself. I’ll be hosting the service here soon just have not had the time with how busy I am at work right now.
I should be able to get it hosted by the end of the weekend hopefully.
@abhilashca Meahwhile you may try GitHub - crazyramirez/FBX2GLB-Batch-Convert-Optimizer: A Simple NodeJS App to Batch Convert FBX Files to GLB and Fast Optimization
Unrelated, but if you can convert it to WASM and the conversion does not use too much memory you could try to make it run client side
