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Upgrading to a new dedicated server for MongoDB

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Backstory

In 2019 I started development on a project related to tracking players in a game called League Of Legends. The concept back then was a simple script that would display the amount of games a player had play on a specefic champion in the game (demo). A friend of mine recomended me to write a proper website since it was it was inconvenient for the user to have to run a script to get the data. So I started to work on a website that would display the data in a more user friendly way. The website was written in Flask without a database layer. This website was hosted on a DigitalOcean droplet. The website was up and running for a while but as traffic increased I needed something more powerful than a simple droplet. During my midterm exams and christmas holiday I took the time to move everything to a server hosted by SoYouStart. After a while I implemented a database layer using PyMongo and a mongodb instance hosted on the same server. All went well after a few years then I noticed that the disk space of my server was running low since the amount of players I was tracking increased. I scouted lowendtalk and found a server that would fit my needs. Both yabs are provided below.

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