No worries at all sun! I am always open to feedback, and saving $20/month for 12 months is $240/year that could go towards other projects. We should always be looking for ways to save and maximize our budget.
I think I started off with AWS for cloud server because of prior experience and brand name, but they werent cost effective
Ive seen Vultr mentioned a lot in other masternode coins, and masternodes.pro had them as their main advertising banner, and Rob recommended them as well. So I was basically sold haha.
Is there an easy way to profile/track disk usage?
I believe the whole blockchain transaction history gets loaded and stored into MongoDB, I assume it probably all fits into RAM (my blocks folder on windows is only ~660MB)
https://github.com/iquidus/explorerThe reason for upgrading was CPU getting maxed out, the explorer is multithreaded:
https://github.com/iquidus/explorer/blob/master/bin/cluster#L24