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Do you have a link to this 5 dollar service you mention? The ones I knew have risen prices considerably.
by a1o 3y ago
Do you have a link to this 5 dollar service you mention? The ones I knew have risen prices considerably.
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- cthor 3y agolinode has a $5/mo plan
- lsferreira42 3y agoI do: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
- whalesalad 3y ago- https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared - https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ - https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- coder543 3y agoalso, https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/#Virtual_servers https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/#Virtual_servers lots of hosting providers with cheap options these days.
- CJefferson 3y agoWell, it’s cheap until a badly behaved script starts sending lots of data and Amazon charges your card a huge bill (unless they’ve finally got around to hard price caps?)
- coder543 3y agoNone of these 4 providers do hard caps. If a lack of hard caps is your complaint, file it against all of them. Lightsail instances each include at least 1TB of transfer each month, which is the same as DigitalOcean. Vultr and Linode also charge network overage fees on a per gigabyte basis if you transfer too much. Absolutely, everyone should set up billing alerts on any of these services. I'm not here to say Lightsail is the absolute best option, just an option.
- CJefferson 3y agoI was told digitaloceon at least had caps, but you are right, none of them do. In which case, I’m not using any of them outside of an LLC.
- graemep 3y agoOVH has unmetered VPSs: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/vps/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/vps/ I suspect the bandwidth is lower, but that is fair enough.
- donio 3y agoTornado VPS (used to be prgmr.com) is another one: https://tornadovps.com/order/main/packages/xen/ https://tornadovps.com/order/main/packages/xen/ For $5 you get 1.25 GiB RAM and 15 GiB SSD. Started using them for almost 15 years ago when running an SMTP server on home-tier internet connections became less feasible.
- simpaticoder 3y agoI use Linode (now Akamai Cloud). Oddly the "Linode 1GB" plan doesn't seem to have a link - you can find it in the shared cpu section under "Nanode 1GB" https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared https://www.linode.com/pricing/#compute-shared. The impression I get is that most $5 VPSes are basically the same, although I've really only used Linode. They give you some useful free stuff like an external firewall/router and monitoring (with only 24 hours of history, but that's plenty). Their docs and scripts are really good too if, like me, you're only a dilettante sysadmin.
- qaq 3y agohttps://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.hetzner.com/ will give you 2GB for $5
- apitman 3y agoAnd absurd amounts of traffic
- simpaticoder 3y agoWow, I may move there. They even have EU only ARM instances with 2 cores and 4GB of RAM for $5/mo, which is amazing value.
- jodrellblank 3y agoI get them from the aggregator https://lowendbox.com https://lowendbox.com when companies offer deals; some have been great, some poor, but all very cheap; I think $14/year has been a decent one. Although my current one only has 512MB RAM and isn’t enough for Rust to compile Scryer Prolog. Prolog, a language first run on the computers of 1971 and standardised around 1998.
- antifa 3y agoThere's also some $1/month and $30/year options if you look hard enough.
- arcastroe 3y agoThe biggest bang for your buck will be with Contabo. I've tried OVH and Cloudfanatic as well, but recently settled on Contabo just because it's cheaper