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Somewhat off-topic, but what service do you guys recommend for someone who just wants a cheap server to play around with (maybe getting something like an rsync

by cmdli 11y ago

Somewhat off-topic, but what service do you guys recommend for someone who just wants a cheap server to play around with (maybe getting something like an rsync script or BTsync and a website running)?

joetapeworm 11y ago
just grab something from lowendbox or vpsboard's offers section.
- JorgeGT 11y ago
  Can confirm, $5 a year for a 1Gb RAM VPS (with NAT IPv4) and something like $10 for one with a dedicated IP. Search for deals, they are out there.
TheDong 11y ago
Some people might say Digital Ocean or Linode or Ramnode or whatev, but I would go straight to AWS. The 't2' class of servers are competitive with Digital Ocean in terms of pricing (roughly the same), especially if you do a 'reserved instance', and you get a ton of other benefits "for free", like a sane firewall and network, better monitoring tooling, snapshot tooling, and an easier path forwards if you do need to expand to other things like databases or s3.
- e12e 11y ago
  How do you figure? The t2.micro is ~10 USD a month with 1GB of transfer. The comparable ~10USD/month plan at DO includes 2TB of transfer. And Amazon doesn't have a 5USD/Month plan, which is probably enough? Apparently 2TB out of a t2.micro comes to an additional charge of 0.09 * 1999 ~ 180 USD. What am I missing? That you probably don't want to use bandwith because no-one will use your hobby projects?
callesgg 11y ago
Personally i would recommend you to set up your own server, so you can learn how stuff works. If you don't want that for some reason i have used Digital Ocean found their service to be very simple to use. I have also tried amazon's stuff and i found it to be expensive and not very user friendly. But when it comes to price i know there is other ones that are cheaper than Digital Ocean.
ar0 11y ago
OVH provides very cheap vServers starting at $3.49 / month in both France and Canada (the latter provides good connectivity to the US East Coast): https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml In Europe, also Hetzner is a good choice with good connectivity and vServers starting at EUR 3.90 / month: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10 https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10 I would not host my production-quality business on these machines, but for playing around they work very well. And BTsync should not be a problem, I have BTsync running on a Cubietruck and it works flawlessly.
- e12e 11y ago
  I don't think there's anything wrong with Digital Ocean, but other options are virtual servers from OVH, leaseweb, ramnode. I haven't tried Hetzner's VPS/cloud offering, but they're budget "used" servers are nice, if you want to play with your own hardware. People often forget how much overhead virtualization can end up having due to disk contention, and especially in the network layer/stack. A dedicated server is more expensive than a (low end) VPS, but can be more fun! :-) https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/ https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/ While the listings are mostly self-explanatory, a couple of points: if you want to experiment with cloud storage/zfs - you probably want ECC Ram (you probably want ECC ram. Full stop.). That'll be more expensive. You might also want to search after servers with at least one SSD, as eg. ZFS can use that to speed up the file system (and Linux also has different flash cache, or you might just want to use it for DB storage etc).
EugeneOZ 11y ago
GCP micro
huskyr 11y ago
You could get a cheap Raspberry Pi and use that.
Veratyr 11y ago
- DigitalOcean - Good, popular, easy to use, pretty stable, $10 for 1GB of RAM - Vultr - (Much) faster CPUs than DigitalOcean, less popular, a little less nice UI, more OS options, roughly the same price as DigitalOcean Oh and if you're a student, you can get $100 credit at DigitalOcean for free: https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack

by cmdli 11y ago

joetapeworm 11y ago

just grab something from lowendbox or vpsboard's offers section.

JorgeGT 11y ago
Can confirm, $5 a year for a 1Gb RAM VPS (with NAT IPv4) and something like $10 for one with a dedicated IP. Search for deals, they are out there.

TheDong 11y ago

Some people might say Digital Ocean or Linode or Ramnode or whatev, but I would go straight to AWS. The 't2' class of servers are competitive with Digital Ocean in terms of pricing (roughly the same), especially if you do a 'reserved instance', and you get a ton of other benefits "for free", like a sane firewall and network, better monitoring tooling, snapshot tooling, and an easier path forwards if you do need to expand to other things like databases or s3.

e12e 11y ago
How do you figure? The t2.micro is ~10 USD a month with 1GB of transfer. The comparable ~10USD/month plan at DO includes 2TB of transfer. And Amazon doesn't have a 5USD/Month plan, which is probably enough? Apparently 2TB out of a t2.micro comes to an additional charge of 0.09 * 1999 ~ 180 USD. What am I missing? That you probably don't want to use bandwith because no-one will use your hobby projects?

callesgg 11y ago

Personally i would recommend you to set up your own server, so you can learn how stuff works. If you don't want that for some reason i have used Digital Ocean found their service to be very simple to use. I have also tried amazon's stuff and i found it to be expensive and not very user friendly. But when it comes to price i know there is other ones that are cheaper than Digital Ocean.

ar0 11y ago

OVH provides very cheap vServers starting at $3.49 / month in both France and Canada (the latter provides good connectivity to the US East Coast): https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml In Europe, also Hetzner is a good choice with good connectivity and vServers starting at EUR 3.90 / month: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10 https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10 I would not host my production-quality business on these machines, but for playing around they work very well. And BTsync should not be a problem, I have BTsync running on a Cubietruck and it works flawlessly.

e12e 11y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with Digital Ocean, but other options are virtual servers from OVH, leaseweb, ramnode. I haven't tried Hetzner's VPS/cloud offering, but they're budget "used" servers are nice, if you want to play with your own hardware. People often forget how much overhead virtualization can end up having due to disk contention, and especially in the network layer/stack. A dedicated server is more expensive than a (low end) VPS, but can be more fun! :-) https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/ https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/ While the listings are mostly self-explanatory, a couple of points: if you want to experiment with cloud storage/zfs - you probably want ECC Ram (you probably want ECC ram. Full stop.). That'll be more expensive. You might also want to search after servers with at least one SSD, as eg. ZFS can use that to speed up the file system (and Linux also has different flash cache, or you might just want to use it for DB storage etc).

EugeneOZ 11y ago

GCP micro

huskyr 11y ago

You could get a cheap Raspberry Pi and use that.

Veratyr 11y ago

- DigitalOcean - Good, popular, easy to use, pretty stable, $10 for 1GB of RAM - Vultr - (Much) faster CPUs than DigitalOcean, less popular, a little less nice UI, more OS options, roughly the same price as DigitalOcean Oh and if you're a student, you can get $100 credit at DigitalOcean for free: https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack