3 ms·
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.o
by 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 agoI 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).