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Do remember that there have been cases of some of the more budget oriented providers just folding and the company disappearing altogether. That actually happene

Do remember that there have been cases of some of the more budget oriented providers just folding and the company disappearing altogether. That actually happened with me, with DediStation: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/114949/is-dedistation-a-reliable-company https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/114949/is-dedistation-a-re... Nowadays I'd generally go for hosting providers that have been around for some time. Hetzner: has both great features and affordable costs (I needed to verify my ID, though) Contabo: the prices are great, but the performance is a bit worse than other options Time4VPS: a Lithuanian provider that I used due to them being cheaper than Hetzner, unfortunately their prices have increased noticeably, only the yearly plans are worth it DigitalOcean, Scaleway, Vultr: all have good features, but can be expensive Azure, AWS, GCP: too complex and enterprisey for my private needs

yread 3y ago
Happened to a friend of mine.His backups were the offsite but with same company so he was completely screwed
habibur 3y ago
Also those hidden costs. You don't know about those until you are charged for it, and was written in their terms which you never bothered to read.
zootboy 3y ago
I consider a provider from LowEndBox disappearing one day a near-certainty. In my experience (N = ~10), an average LEB provider will have an existence half-life of around 3 years. That's not to discourage anyone from using them; in fact, LEB VPS servers are pretty much all I use (each being ~$25 / year), and I've gotten quite good at keeping useful, tested backups, keeping redundancy in my services, and being able to stand up a new server quickly.
trillic 3y ago
Contabo was pretty good in my eyes. Not as much I/O or CPU performance as a new droplet with a fancy new EPYC processor but lots of ram and storage for the price and some reasonably fast cores with little contention from what I could tell.

yread 3y ago

Happened to a friend of mine.His backups were the offsite but with same company so he was completely screwed

habibur 3y ago

Also those hidden costs. You don't know about those until you are charged for it, and was written in their terms which you never bothered to read.

zootboy 3y ago

I consider a provider from LowEndBox disappearing one day a near-certainty. In my experience (N = ~10), an average LEB provider will have an existence half-life of around 3 years. That's not to discourage anyone from using them; in fact, LEB VPS servers are pretty much all I use (each being ~$25 / year), and I've gotten quite good at keeping useful, tested backups, keeping redundancy in my services, and being able to stand up a new server quickly.

trillic 3y ago

Contabo was pretty good in my eyes. Not as much I/O or CPU performance as a new droplet with a fancy new EPYC processor but lots of ram and storage for the price and some reasonably fast cores with little contention from what I could tell.