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.
If you need support outside of business hours, you’re fucked.
Friend had a network misconfig on their side take his server out on Friday night and they didn’t fix it until Monday.
That’s just like Aws, you pay for better and longer support. But they don’t make it clear support is only 9-5
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 got notification from them that they will stop unused machine. I’ve just rebooted and didn’t get anything for a few months now
A big point of confusion that keeps happening in relation to OCI is that there’s actually two “tiers” of free, and one of the two is subject to resources vanishing.
If you convert to a pay-as-you-go account, all that shit stops, and you’re treated as an actual customer while keeping all the free tier stuff.
I suppose you could get hit with a surprise bill if you’re not careful and use things that have a free tier and then convert to billing (example: you exceed your object storage free amount), but if you don’t use anything outside of the compute resources, it’s just as good without the resource reclamation stuff.
+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.
