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Does anyone have an alternative for a hobbyist VPS provider (around 5€/month) ? OVH keeps reducing their offering and bumping their prices. Plus they dropped su

Does anyone have an alternative for a hobbyist VPS provider (around 5€/month) ? OVH keeps reducing their offering and bumping their prices. Plus they dropped support for Arch images.

adevx 5y ago
Good experience with Hetzner Cloud, they support Arch. Only EU data centers though.
draugadrotten 5y ago
You can often find deals on https://lowendbox.com/ https://lowendbox.com/
reactor 5y ago
https://www.ssdnodes.com/ https://www.ssdnodes.com/ Quite attractive pricing and been an user for about 2+ yrs, never faced any issue so far, probably luck me?
- PixyMisa 5y ago
  I've been using SSDNodes for some stuff for the past year. Had an issue with my VPS in Dallas, contacted support, they fixed it right away - response in a few minutes, fixed within half an hour.
stillblue 5y ago
Linode and Digital Ocean are pretty good.
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dlkmp 5y ago
I use hetzner, their smallest VPS is around 2,xx Euro. Has been very reliable for me in the last couple of years. I'm not sure whether they support arch, though.
- rawoke083600 5y ago
  And the "nicest" UX from all the companies for their cloud-ui-interface.
janmo 5y ago
I can recommend https://www.scaleway.com/en/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/ I have been using it for severa. years, never had an outage.
doublerabbit 5y ago
https://www.edis.at/en https://www.edis.at/en They have many locations and I used their VPS for a long while before I moved to colocation. Had no issues apart from when I accidentally deleted /etc/.
notRobot 5y ago
They appear to support Arch? https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/compare/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/compare/
- Jach 5y ago
  Click through to actually ordering, and when you select your OS, you're given a choice of only Fedora/Centos/Debian/Ubuntu/Windows Server. When I was looking for a host that supported Gentoo I found similar false advertising from them (and many others), they don't actually do it. In theory some of them will give you a recovery shell so you can then bootstrap whatever distro you want, but once you do that you're in very unsupported territory.
  - Palmik 5y ago
    I use archlinux on OVH, so in this case the advertising is certainly not completely false.
jeroenhd 5y ago
I'm using cheap Contabo servers and they've been surprisingly reliable for the price they ask. Their €5 offering (excluding VAT) comes with 4 cores, 8GiB of RAM and either 50GiB of NVME storage or 200GiB "ssd" storage. That's a lot better than anything I can find elsewhere. The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case. If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.

Does anyone have an alternative for a hobbyist VPS provider (around 5€/month) ? OVH keeps reducing their offering and bumping their prices. Plus they dropped support for Arch images.

adevx 5y ago

Good experience with Hetzner Cloud, they support Arch. Only EU data centers though.

draugadrotten 5y ago

You can often find deals on https://lowendbox.com/ https://lowendbox.com/

reactor 5y ago

https://www.ssdnodes.com/ https://www.ssdnodes.com/ Quite attractive pricing and been an user for about 2+ yrs, never faced any issue so far, probably luck me?

PixyMisa 5y ago
I've been using SSDNodes for some stuff for the past year. Had an issue with my VPS in Dallas, contacted support, they fixed it right away - response in a few minutes, fixed within half an hour.

stillblue 5y ago

Linode and Digital Ocean are pretty good.

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dlkmp 5y ago

I use hetzner, their smallest VPS is around 2,xx Euro. Has been very reliable for me in the last couple of years. I'm not sure whether they support arch, though.

rawoke083600 5y ago
And the "nicest" UX from all the companies for their cloud-ui-interface.

janmo 5y ago

I can recommend https://www.scaleway.com/en/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/ I have been using it for severa. years, never had an outage.

doublerabbit 5y ago

https://www.edis.at/en https://www.edis.at/en They have many locations and I used their VPS for a long while before I moved to colocation. Had no issues apart from when I accidentally deleted /etc/.

notRobot 5y ago

They appear to support Arch? https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/compare/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/compare/

Jach 5y ago
Click through to actually ordering, and when you select your OS, you're given a choice of only Fedora/Centos/Debian/Ubuntu/Windows Server. When I was looking for a host that supported Gentoo I found similar false advertising from them (and many others), they don't actually do it. In theory some of them will give you a recovery shell so you can then bootstrap whatever distro you want, but once you do that you're in very unsupported territory.
- Palmik 5y ago
  I use archlinux on OVH, so in this case the advertising is certainly not completely false.

jeroenhd 5y ago

I'm using cheap Contabo servers and they've been surprisingly reliable for the price they ask. Their €5 offering (excluding VAT) comes with 4 cores, 8GiB of RAM and either 50GiB of NVME storage or 200GiB "ssd" storage. That's a lot better than anything I can find elsewhere. The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case. If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.