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Too 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 own
by opengrass 1mo ago
Too 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo agoSo just like DigitalOcean then. It's the first ASN I block when setting up a new website or server. https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/asn/14061 https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/asn/14061 https://threatfox.abuse.ch/asn/14061 https://threatfox.abuse.ch/asn/14061
- kodoman 1mo agoTo be fair most data center blocks are in ban lists.
- selcuka 1mo agoNot necessarily. I've been using a couple of RackNerd VPSs for non-critical stuff for a few years now and they have been rock solid. Hetzner and Contabo are also reputable providers with competitive pricing.
- opengrass 1mo agoAll reputable.
- s_dev 1mo agoI recently migrated from Digital Ocean to Scaleway. Digital Ocean was great but I had to make sure my stack was entirely in the EU in case the US decides to hit a kill switch for some mental negotiation tactic. Pricing and interface and performance are all similar.