Hi community, wanted to know your opinions on the various VPS companies offering compute boxes in the cloud. Which one do you use, why, and what do you recommend for someone who has a $15 budget for a decently powerful box(es)?

Thanks!

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Keep an eye out for GreenCloudVPS’ 10th birthday sale, which should be starting later this month (edit: I think it may actually be in October). They’ll have a post on LowEndTalk about it. Last year they had an offer with 9 cores, 9GB RAM, 99GB NVMe disk space, for US$99 every three years ($33/year). My Lemmy server is running on one of them!

    In the meantime, they have some good deals here: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-KVM-sale. Their cheapest one is $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB NVMe disk space on a 10Gbps network.

    Also take a look at RackNerd and HostHatch when they have sales. RackNerd’s 4th July sale prices are still available: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186994/boom-boom-4th-of-july-deals-come-come-deals-freebies-by-racknerd/p1

    I personally prefer GreenCloudVPS, but Hosthatch have a bunch of useful features like a private VLAN between all your VPSes in the same location. GreenCloudVPS have the best support out of the three. All three have much better pricing than the “big” providers like Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean, etc. Those big providers spend a lot on advertising and have more markup than the less-well-known providers.

    I am not affiliated with any of these companies; I’m just a user of all of them. :)

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you so much! Delighted to see more economical options here - I am going to take a look at all of them! I’ll save this comment, I should follow Lowendbox more haha

  • SirMaple_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Hetzner or Netcup

    I like Hetzners bandwidth limit of 20TB outbound and the per minute billing. The specs on their VPS are also decent in my mind.

    Note that Hetzner can be a bit of a pain to open an account. They’re picky about verifying identity.

  • lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I have used a bunch of companies and theyre all good enough. Here are ones that stood out to me.

    vultr.com because they offer a lot of capabilities in their admin console. Like uploading a custom iso for an os they dont already have listed.

    Fdcservers, unmetered service but the connection isnt gig.

    Ovh has very competitive pricing and cloud like capabilites.

  • Kekin@lemy.lolEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I currently have a VPS with Contabo. I think their prices are good. They have normal VPSs for more compute power with nvme storage, and they also have what they call Storage VPS, which I assume uses SATA ssds but they give you more storage vs the other ones. I’d say give them a look

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the recommendation. Contabo seems to have the best prices out of all of them! Their compute plans look so much more affordable than Vultr and the like. Thanks!

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    LXC Linux Containers
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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