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That pricing is awful. $4/month for 512MB VPS...eeek. You'll find much better pricing at RackNerd, DediRock, InterServer, BuyVM, etc. Small indy hosting comp
by bananamogul 3mo ago
That pricing is awful. $4/month for 512MB VPS...eeek.
You'll find much better pricing at RackNerd, DediRock, InterServer, BuyVM, etc. Small indy hosting companies are the way to go. 2GB for $5/month or so is the typical price point.
Any host that offers KVM and allows you to upload your own ISO can run OpenBSD (or FreeBSD, NetBSD, whatever you want).
Check out LowEndTalk or LowEndBox for deals. There are other sites but that's where I shop.
Sure, if you need an API, or if you want to host in one of the less common locations, or if you absolutely must have five nines, then DO or Vultr or Linode or Amazon LightSail can be a good fit. But if you just need a VPS with a control panel in a typical hosting location (Amsterdam, LA, New York, Chicago, Singapore, etc.) then I don't see the point of paying more at one of the big hosts.
- daymanstep 3mo agoLightsail does not offer five nines.
- irishcoffee 3mo agoNeither does GitHub, and for whatever reason everyone and their cousin uses it still. :)
- serf 3mo agoeveryone uses github because everyone uses github. it's relying strictly on social effect right now.
- bigstrat2003 3mo agoWell yeah, obviously. I think the point was that uptime is not the only concern, and that a service sufficiently attractive in other ways can get people to overlook a lack of reliability.
- reassess_blind 3mo agoUptime is overrated.
- walrus01 3mo agoLightsail also does not offer any form of virtual serial console to access a VM where you've accidentally broken networking or ssh, when even the crappiest lowendbox-tier VM provider generally does. The only way to 'recover' a lightsail VM that's in that state is to export the storage device to full amazon services starting from a $25/mo VM.
- jwrallie 3mo agoOVH VPSs are particularly nice for RAM. Something in the 4-5 USD range can give you 4GB. The issue is patience with availability, sometimes it takes a while to get one in the location you want.
- joering2 3mo agosame impression. When you want to have memory hangry MariaDB to run fast, RAM is most important, and OVH prices are insanely cheap comparing to basically everyone else.
- upofadown 3mo agoOVH doesn't seem to directly support installation of arbitrary images. So installing OpenBSD can be a bit awkward. A relevant search: * https://searxng.shreven.org/search?q=openbsd+ovhcloud https://searxng.shreven.org/search?q=openbsd+ovhcloud
- coldpie 3mo ago> That pricing is awful. $4/month > Small indy hosting companies ... $5/month or so is the typical price point. > I don't see the point of paying more at one of the big hosts. I'm confused. People who are paying $4/mo at the big host should instead save money by paying $5/mo at a small host?
- Brian_K_White 3mo ago2g vs 512m. Thats $5 vs $16
- LeBit 3mo agoSomeone else already mentioned that you get much more for 1$. Check out BuyVM 3.50$ plan.
- bfhfhdbd 3mo agoBuyVM is scammy. They offer a "$1" Plan but all locations are out of stock. Tnen they say it's available on cloudvm where the same package starts at $3
- MassPikeMike 3mo agoThe claim that BuyVM is scammy contradicts my experience. I have had excellent customer service from them. Yes, like (say) airline tickets, the demand for their lowest-priced offerings exceeds the supply available at that price point, and if you're not willing to wait, you will pay more. But new supply seems to come online about twice a month when billing cycles expire, and there is a Discord channel ("BuyVMStock") that can alert you when this happens. Me, I'm hanging on to my underutilized server there just because it's so cheap to keep at the ready, and I suppose this is why they have so little availability. But if they were actually scammy there would be much more churn.
- LeBit 3mo agoTbf, they could have become scammy. The previous owner , Francesco , recently (less than a year ago?) sold BuyVM because he wanted to focus on a new endeavor. That being said, BuyVM stock was always low. You had to register on some website were you were told when what you wanted became available. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186062/buyvm-always-out-of-stock https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186062/buyvm-always-out-of...
- opengrass 3mo agoToo many of these low end resellers are unreliable, root your VM and unprofesionally fight with customers in the forums. They are children. Go with one that owns the hardware.
- preetamjinka 3mo agoYeah. Back in ~2011, when I was in high school, I used to sell these kinds of VMs as a host and advertised on LowEndBox. Literally as a minor. I don't really trust any small time host with my data. Meanwhile I recently migrated a $5 DigitalOcean VM that's been running flawlessly for over 6 years. It was in dire need of an Ubuntu upgrade. I expect this one to keep going for just as long!
- alexjplant 3mo agoNo idea why you're being downvoted. I've bought el cheapo LowEndTalk-style VPS specials on two or three occasions and have gotten what I paid for each time. They either sold a microscopic slice of some over-provisioned 15-year-old POS or outright lied to me about specs then argued until I did a chargeback to recover my money. For app hosting I'd either 1) use cloudflared and a cheap Lenovo Tiny box to host from my house, 2) write something serverless that runs on Cloudflare Workers, or 3) use a real host that isn't 18 months old and run by hucksters in a race to the bottom.
- LeBit 3mo agoI’ve been using super cheap VPS just for the public static IP. They reverse proxy straight into my homelab. The wireguard tunnels haven’t gone down after years of no maintenance use.
- bityard 3mo agoThese cheap resellers are also magnets for spammers, scammers, and hax0rs, so good luck running anything you don't want caught up in a subnet ban.
- KomoD 3mo ago
- aniviacat 3mo ago1blu.de offers 8GB memory and 120GB storage for 9€ a month. Also traffic is unlimited and free. (However it's hosted only in Germany and does not have an API. Also, its SLA only guarantees 99% uptime.)