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Dang, I never knew something like this existed! And now it doesn't.. Anyone know of any similar services one might procure? Asking for a friend...

akx 6y ago
You can get a VPS from Hetzner starting at 3 EUR/mo, or one from Digital Ocean at $5/mo. I know it's 3 to 5 times more expensive than this, but...
wccrawford 6y ago
I've been using Nearly Free Speech, and someone else here recommended it, too. I don't use it for anything important, but it's been pretty reliable.
massysett 6y ago
NearlyFreeSpeech.net. It's probably not as cheap as this was but is close. I used to have a personal static website there. These days I use it only for my domain. It's been years and I've never had a problem with them. They have extensive support webpages and a custom-rolled web interface for management and they seem to know what they're doing.
tyingq 6y ago
Another cheap Cpanel provider that's ~$1/month: https://hobohost.com/ https://hobohost.com/ If you're okay without Cpanel, there's a bunch of providers advertising dirt cheap VPS instances on https://lowendbox.com https://lowendbox.com. As this thread indicates, though, you get what you pay for.
dspillett 6y ago
There are many cheap shared hosts, though perhaps not that cheap if you want cPanel given their recent licensing change to per-account from per-server. If you are fine doing your own setup and have low resource needs, you can get a 1$/month VM from a number of places. Cheaper if your resource needs are really low, or you don't need a dedicated IPv4 address. There are even search engines collating them, https://www.serverhunter.com/ https://www.serverhunter.com/ for instance. Just do a little background research before picking the cheapest, if you care anything for what you host.
thesuitonym 6y ago
You might be interested in the tildeverse[0] or sdf [1]. Both options offer basic Linux hosting and shell access on a shared machine, though they're more of a social network based on old Unix services than a real website host. Well, SDF is robust enough to use as a real host. [0] https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/ [1] https://sdf.org/ https://sdf.org/

akx 6y ago

You can get a VPS from Hetzner starting at 3 EUR/mo, or one from Digital Ocean at $5/mo. I know it's 3 to 5 times more expensive than this, but...

wccrawford 6y ago

I've been using Nearly Free Speech, and someone else here recommended it, too. I don't use it for anything important, but it's been pretty reliable.

massysett 6y ago

NearlyFreeSpeech.net. It's probably not as cheap as this was but is close. I used to have a personal static website there. These days I use it only for my domain. It's been years and I've never had a problem with them. They have extensive support webpages and a custom-rolled web interface for management and they seem to know what they're doing.

tyingq 6y ago

Another cheap Cpanel provider that's ~$1/month: https://hobohost.com/ https://hobohost.com/ If you're okay without Cpanel, there's a bunch of providers advertising dirt cheap VPS instances on https://lowendbox.com https://lowendbox.com. As this thread indicates, though, you get what you pay for.

dspillett 6y ago

There are many cheap shared hosts, though perhaps not that cheap if you want cPanel given their recent licensing change to per-account from per-server. If you are fine doing your own setup and have low resource needs, you can get a 1$/month VM from a number of places. Cheaper if your resource needs are really low, or you don't need a dedicated IPv4 address. There are even search engines collating them, https://www.serverhunter.com/ https://www.serverhunter.com/ for instance. Just do a little background research before picking the cheapest, if you care anything for what you host.

thesuitonym 6y ago

You might be interested in the tildeverse[0] or sdf [1]. Both options offer basic Linux hosting and shell access on a shared machine, though they're more of a social network based on old Unix services than a real website host. Well, SDF is robust enough to use as a real host. [0] https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/ [1] https://sdf.org/ https://sdf.org/