Need suggestions for VPS
Need suggestions for VPS
I want to get a new VPS. It'll mostly be used to host lightweight Docker images, and reverse proxying through Caddy. So, decent CPU and fast network speeds are the main things I need.
I have a cheap VPS with RackNerd. It's fine, but only has a single CPU core, which gets overwhelmed if multiple connections are trying to pull stuff from some service. So, I guess having multiple cores is a requirement as well.
I want to spend around $5/month, but willing to go a little higher if it's worth it. Any suggestions are appreciated.
P.S. I'm based in US and would prefer something in here for lower latency.
Update: Hetzner's CX22 IPV6 only plan seems to be very good in terms of price-performance ratio. But the servers are in Europe. I'm planning to try it out for a while and see how the latency is. It's great that they don't lock you in with yearly plans.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAT Network Address Translation VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org I use hetzner and it looks fine to me
Where are you, if I may ask? Their Intel offers are not based in the US. Most of the time, I'll access it from inside US, so I'm worried about the latency.
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org in the US, but I prefer to have a server in places with better user protections... AFAIR they do have a data center in Hillsboro, OR, but IDK about what specific offer they have there.
Have checked out OVH yet?
Have a VPS and a dedi with them
All I will say is that company has issues. Make sure you have the full backup of whatever data you put there.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
If you're okay being in the EU, I use Ionos. €1 a month with a IPv4 address and no contract.
On the US side, Oracle has a free tier for 2 arm CPUs. You could load balance between them, but they're still kinda slow.
Either of these you can test for very low costs and see what you enjoy.
DigitalOcean and Vultr are options that "just work" and have reasonable options available in $5-6/month category.
DO is more established and I've used them for nearly 10 years now for a $6/mo VPS and for managing DNS for my domains. Vultr has some much closer datacenter options if you happen to be in the southeast US, rather than basically just covering California and NYC like DO does.
I know I'll be told that it is a shit company, but Oracle free VPS works like a charm for me. Using it to circumvent CGNAT by running Wireguard on it
As a note of caution, I used Oracle's free tier to run a personal Matrix server, and it got deleted without any advance warning after a few months. I migrated to another provider and haven't had any issues for 2+ years now.
I'll second that. Oracle sucks but they've given me thousands worth of free cloud shit over the last 3 years so I'm not displeased.
+1 on OCI free tier (ARM) - works like a charm. No need to spend those $5 a month of what OP want's to do.
If you're happy with Racknerd, they have deals on LEB all the time. Right now, even
I got a little server from them a few weeks ago for $17/yr ($1.42/mo) and it's great. 1 core, 2 GB RAM, 35 GB storage.
I used rclone to mount a Backblaze bucket and transferred a couple services to it, including Immich.
I would recommend Digital Ocean for a VPS. With you being in the US latency should be decent and you can pick whichever is closer to you either SF or NY. My Lemmy instance is hosted on DO even.
Thanks for the suggestion.
You might find this list useful: https://codeberg.org/jonatasbaldin/delightful-libre-hosters
Contabo is really cheap and has a few datacenters around the world. That low price comes at a cost though, their uptime is not as good as that of other providers. Expect about 3 outages a year, lasting about half an hour, maybe a day in extreme cases.
Yeah I went back from Contabo tbh, as you said, I had several outages, the worst of which lasted several days with absolutely no information, nor response from the support. (My VPS had all the symptoms of a broken disk, which was extremely worrying)
That, plus the subscription fees, it's not something I would advise today
AFAIK Contabo seems to oversubscribes harder than others, so Performance can be really bad, high CPU steal, low IOPS, etc. It varies from instance to instance, as usual, sometimes support can move you to a different node but many people seem to prefer other providers after having used contabo.
Yeah, I've used it for years without issues before I moved to using my own hardware
If you're in Europe, Hetzner Cloud offers some of the best deals you can get from a reliable hoster.