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There are at least 5 providers that will rent you a $5/month server: DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr. There's a guy that publishes benchmarks
by shpx 7y ago
There are at least 5 providers that will rent you a $5/month server: DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr. There's a guy that publishes benchmarks of their $5 instance regularly
https://joshtronic.com/2019/09/02/vps-showdown-digitalocean-lightsail-linode-upcloud-vultr/ https://joshtronic.com/2019/09/02/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
DigitalOcean is by far the most popular. Personally, I like Vultr because they also have $2.50 IPv6 only instances and you can upload your own ISO file if you want to try a less popular Linux distribution. Both services have similar user interfaces that are pretty good.
That being said, $60/year is still a lot. If you can get away with just a static site, try GitHub pages https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/. You only get one (unless you create GitHub organizations) but it's free. You can still have your own domain pointing to it with TLS (free through Let's Encrypt). You miss out on the fun of managing a Linux server unfortunately.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoYep. I use DO and it’s been just fine for low traffic websites. They’ve been great to work with and very easy to use. But I only host personal projects and internal tooling projects with them. Can’t speak to scaling but my experience has been positive.
- pnutjam 7y agoFor cheap hosting, nearlyfreespeech.net is where it's at, cheap and full shell access on bad.
- vinni2 7y agoMany cloud providers like digital ocean have student offers [1] with GitHub student developer program worth trying out. [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/were-participating-in-githubs-student-developer-program/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/were-participating-in-githubs-...
- bennofs 7y agoActually, you can have multiple github pages sites: just create a new repo with a branch named gh-pages. You can then add a CNAME to that as well.