I currently use a Droplet from DigitalOcean which gives me 1 gb of RAM, 25 gb of storage and a bandwidth limit of 1 TB which is priced at 6 dollars per month, I think this might be a good offer, but I also think I’m overpaying because the only thing that I use from that is Wireguard to get around CGNAT at my home (which I could already do with Zerotier or Tailscale, so I don’t always use it).
I do have a couple of docker containers as well, but the most important one being Pi-Hole is only used along with WG, I also expose some services to the internet, like Overseerr, Plex (only to 1 user) and most recently this, https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all
Keeping within what DO already offers me would be nice, especially the bandwidth, which I some months got past of it because I opened the torrent port to seed more… I stopped when a DO letter arrived which is amusing because my country could not care less about torrenting. 🤣
I tried to go with the cheapest option ever (free) oracle cloud, but they never accepted any of my credit or debit cards nor they cared about it lol.
I don’t think I’m a power user by any means, so please, if you have a better offer do tell, or maybe that price is fair for my usage?
EDIT: forgot to add that a public IPv4 address is a must, because you know, the CGNAT.
Serverhunter is a search engine for cloud servers and has easy to use filter functions.
I am surprised that I didn’t see anyone link to https://lowendtalk.com/ and https://lowendspirit.com/, OP can ask in both places and see what people have for offer.
It’s not the cheapest option on here, but Hetzner Cloud has some pretty good servers. I think their least expensive VPS is about $3.60 a month and comes with 4GB of ram and 40GB storage.
+1 Hetzner, been a customer for years, they’re very stable.
I use a IONOS vps from the XS tier for your exact usecase! It’s only 1€/month and comes with 1 vcore, 1GB RAM and 10 GB SSD storage. Connection is fast too (400 MBit/s+) and data transfer is free (fair use). It comes with one public IPv4 adress.
IONOS is the hosting and cloud division of 1&1, a large ISP here in Germany. Super reliable and zero issues for over 3 years of continous use! I had my fair share of problems with smaller and somewhat dubious hosters before, so now I stick to the established ones.
They have datacentres in the US & Spain too, btw. You can also choose OVH (big french hoster) with locations in Germany, France, Canada etc., but they were more expensive last time I checked.
The IONOS management website is great too. They have free snapshots, paid backups, (web) KVM access and a configurable firewall.
@kratoz29 @selfhosted You cannot go much cheaper from $6 per month… there’s just not that far down to go. You can save maybe another $3 per month. There’s a $3.50/mo plan on Vultr. I have an OVHcloud VPS that cost $100 for 2 years but that was some special promotional deal.
I also stumbled across this one that is $3.40/month (but the $5/month is a much better deal, with 4GB of RAM) but I don’t know anything about this hosting provider so it could just as well be a scam: https://bill.alexhost.com/cart/moldova/
racknerd is running a deal on 1cpu/1GB/25GB 4TB bandwidth at $13/year
Fwiw racknerd still has their 2022 black Friday deals active. I just got 8 core 12 gb ram 100 gb SSD 12tb bandwidth for 161 annual (little over 13 a month). Just search it on Google. It’s still live on their store site.
Thats funny. They have 4th of July sale but the black friday prices are better.
Yeah I noticed that. Dunno they fulfilled my orders so we shall see lol. Ify. Instance goes offline randomly now we know why. Hahaa
I use Hetzner and it’s really good imo
Same here, 2 instances, 1 in Germany, 1 in Finland. Both small vps’es (one smallest, 1 1 size bigger) work like a charm now I added swap.
Oracle Free Tier - as many (ARM) VMs as you can fit in 24gb RAM and 4 vCPUs.
Until they remove our account for no reason
I use Linode, I don’t think it’s cheap. Is it priced ok and my team and I just order too much?
I’m still on Linode and have been for over a decade. Just very sad to have seen them lose their independence after selling to Akamai. Prices went up immediately and the whole “family of sysadmins working for sysadmins” feeling was gone.
That price is pretty fair for what you get.
I’ve had really good experiences with Ramnode for years. I run VPN endpoints, reverse proxies, and various web apps in a couple of their data centers and have had about as close to zero problems as possible, plus their support is quite competent when something does break. Performance is what I expect 99% of the time.
Before that, Linode was good for me as well, and I still have friends who like it.
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That price is pretty fair for what you get.
So you think with my usage that is money well spent that could not be reduced by a similar option?
The lower you go in price, in general the more problems you’ll have with overselling, poor management, poor support, etc.
After coming back to this thread and reading some more comments, it sure looks like I could save up to $3 a month over what I pay for cheap VPS at Ramnode, but in all my years of being a Ramnode customer, they haven’t pissed me off, and their support has always been excellent. I have no desire to move, and I’m somebody who has very little money, so cheaper hosting would make a difference.
Just a data point, good luck in your search!
Hey I have cgnat too and am looking to implement my own wireguard vpn. Can u please post some guide how to do it with a vps?
I don’t have a guide at the moment, but the easier way is to look up for Tailscale.
