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)?
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
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!
Thirding vultr. Their control panel is great and I’ve been running my Lemmy instance on it for a few months with no issues. You can have automatic backups for an extra 20% as well.
They are quite expensive imo. Someone recommended Contabo and I’m looking that way, economically speaking (using a VPS seems to be a better financial decision in my case).
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!
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. :)
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
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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
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!
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.
I’ve only used one VPS so far, but I can second that Vultr has been pretty good to me thus far.
Thank you for your suggestions! I’ll have a look at all of them!
If I may add, Hetzner gives 1TB of storage for $3 a month, if anyone needs extra storage!
What did you intend to do with the vps?
Run podman containers and some LXCs. Mostly related to media, some OSINT, some IOT, run my own search engine etc.
Thirding vultr. Their control panel is great and I’ve been running my Lemmy instance on it for a few months with no issues. You can have automatic backups for an extra 20% as well.
They are quite expensive imo. Someone recommended Contabo and I’m looking that way, economically speaking (using a VPS seems to be a better financial decision in my case).
Thanks!
What OS are you using for lemmy?
Ubuntu 22.04 with Lemmy Easy deploy because I’m lazy.
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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.
Thanks, I’ll take a look at Hetzner and Netcup’s offerings. Do I get 8GB of RAM under $10 with them?
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. :)
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