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.

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I use Linode

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You mean Akamai Connected Cloud, formerly Linode.

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I am not calling it that

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That’s what it’s called. Linode is gone my friend. It’s time to say goodbye.

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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.

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Have checked out OVH yet?

Have a VPS and a dedi with them

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All I will say is that company has issues. Make sure you have the full backup of whatever data you put there.

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That is true of any hosting provider, I have backups backblaze.

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That’s good, because otherwise your data might end in a blaze.

(Totally not speaking from experience)

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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.

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That’s just like Aws, you pay for better and longer support. But they don’t make it clear support is only 9-5

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Thanks, I’ll check it out.

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Digital Ocean ?

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They have had a few issues that are offputting to me personally

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Can you share details into that?

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They have many bad customers running things like email servers to send out spam. They then seen to ignore the problem which leads to digital ocean getting blocked.

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