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You're not going to find much cheaper than $14.60 (the price of keeping a micro instance running for a month.) Rackspace Cloud's 256MB RAM instance is $10.95, a

by cmelbye 16y ago

You're not going to find much cheaper than $14.60 (the price of keeping a micro instance running for a month.) Rackspace Cloud's 256MB RAM instance is $10.95, and there are probably a few random VPS providers here and there with cheaper servers.

dotBen 16y ago
http://www.lowendbox.com http://www.lowendbox.com - a number of providers are a little shady on there but there are some gems where new VPS providers want to sell loss-leader instances to get traction. You can occasionally get deals for ~$15/year for a *nix VPS, and certainly find something usable for ~$8+/month. EDIT: I wouldn't run anything in production on these boxes, but they are great for dev machines, VPN/SSH proxies for securing open wifi traffic, remote shell, etc.
moe 16y ago
Oh, there is cheaper. E.g. thrustvps.com starts at $5.95 for 512MB. Naturally the number of use-cases where it would make sense to give up the stability of amazon/rackspace in exchange for a saved $5/mo is rather limited.
- jackowayed 16y ago
  I've had really good luck with thrustvps so far. I found them from lowendbox.com and got 15% off the already-absurd prices forever, so I'm paying $5.06/month for a 512MB box. It's OpenVZ instead of Xen, but I don't really care; I wouldn't really be taking advantage of Xen anyway. (And they have Xen for a couple bucks a month more.) I have no idea how its performance compares to Linode, AWS, etc, but stability has been fine so far, after 3 months. I kind of expected to have downtime by now since it's so cheap, but pingdom tells me there's been none. If you're looking for a cheap VPS so you can run relatively unimportant things (ie. not your startup, unless it's just a side project that isn't bringing you any money yet), it's a good choice.
  - sibsibsib 16y ago
    I had some pretty bad luck when I signed up a couple weeks ago. The node I was on was very unstable. Fortunately they are pretty responsive and have moved me to a stable node in a different DC. The new node is way more solid. As for cost, it's pretty cheap - $7.95 for a 512MB Xen.

by cmelbye 16y ago

dotBen 16y ago

http://www.lowendbox.com http://www.lowendbox.com - a number of providers are a little shady on there but there are some gems where new VPS providers want to sell loss-leader instances to get traction. You can occasionally get deals for ~$15/year for a *nix VPS, and certainly find something usable for ~$8+/month. EDIT: I wouldn't run anything in production on these boxes, but they are great for dev machines, VPN/SSH proxies for securing open wifi traffic, remote shell, etc.

moe 16y ago

Oh, there is cheaper. E.g. thrustvps.com starts at $5.95 for 512MB. Naturally the number of use-cases where it would make sense to give up the stability of amazon/rackspace in exchange for a saved $5/mo is rather limited.

jackowayed 16y ago
I've had really good luck with thrustvps so far. I found them from lowendbox.com and got 15% off the already-absurd prices forever, so I'm paying $5.06/month for a 512MB box. It's OpenVZ instead of Xen, but I don't really care; I wouldn't really be taking advantage of Xen anyway. (And they have Xen for a couple bucks a month more.) I have no idea how its performance compares to Linode, AWS, etc, but stability has been fine so far, after 3 months. I kind of expected to have downtime by now since it's so cheap, but pingdom tells me there's been none. If you're looking for a cheap VPS so you can run relatively unimportant things (ie. not your startup, unless it's just a side project that isn't bringing you any money yet), it's a good choice.
- sibsibsib 16y ago
  I had some pretty bad luck when I signed up a couple weeks ago. The node I was on was very unstable. Fortunately they are pretty responsive and have moved me to a stable node in a different DC. The new node is way more solid. As for cost, it's pretty cheap - $7.95 for a 512MB Xen.