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Care to share the provider you are using?

dewey 12y ago
There are always great offers on http://lowendbox.com/ http://lowendbox.com/ - I'm very happy with the small KVM offers edis.at is offering.
- highstep 12y ago
  Beware of super cheap VPS providers. A couple years ago I got burned by a provider called VBOX that was highly recommended on lowendbox.com. At first the service was ok, but a few months later my server and VBOX business were completely unresponsive. Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.
  - jon-wood 12y ago
    So long as you have deployment automated, and frequent backups, that shouldn't be a huge issue. One of the many advantages of not having to manually deploy a new box is being able to rapidly get off a bad provider.
sergiotapia 12y ago
Ramnode is fantastic and cheap. http://www.ramnode.com http://www.ramnode.com
- notastartup 12y ago
  $2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.
  - nitrogen 12y ago
    You can run a mostly static site on 64.
  - bearbin 12y ago
    Debian minimal, with NGINX or some other light HTTP is easy on even 64 megs. On 128, you can do stuff like PHP and you can run whatever efficient web stuff you like. The web is light, if you're efficient about it. As an aside, one of my friends has a 100 meg free VPS from one of the terrible free vps providers. He has managed to squeeze a Minecraft server on, and that can hold about 2 or 3 players! (apart from the terrible network, cpu and uptime)
  - neckro23 12y ago
    It isn't (I have one, a whole $15/year due to some ridiculous sale some months ago). Consider that it's userspace only, so kernel doesn't count. I'm running a (light-duty) nodejs app, nginx to proxy it, tmux, and two irssi instances on mine right now, with memory to spare. Light PHP works fine too (haven't tried anything heavier). A database server or similar wouldn't work, of course.
  - insertnickname 12y ago
    If you pay $2/month, you're a sucker; they've got lots of coupons (like the seemingly permanent 25 % discount on their website. If you look a bit further, you'll find even better discounts).
- lazylizard 12y ago
  vpsdime is crazy cheap...
wcfields 12y ago
I use INIZ[1] 1GB for only $25 a year from a lowendbox special[2]. I don't use it for much so I can't speak with quality/uptime/anything beyond testing/experimentation. 1GB-YEARLY 3 vCores 1GB RAM 512MB vSwap 50GB RAID10 Disk 1TB Outbound BW 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6 OpenVZ/SolusVM [1] http://iniz.com/ http://iniz.com/ [2] http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-1gb-vps-amsterdam-ny-and-la/ http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-...
morganherlocker 12y ago
OP here. I use Hostigation[1]. I know some people are concerned about many of the low end providers, but in this case: 1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble! 2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me. [1] https://hostigation.com/ https://hostigation.com/

dewey 12y ago

There are always great offers on http://lowendbox.com/ http://lowendbox.com/ - I'm very happy with the small KVM offers edis.at is offering.

highstep 12y ago
Beware of super cheap VPS providers. A couple years ago I got burned by a provider called VBOX that was highly recommended on lowendbox.com. At first the service was ok, but a few months later my server and VBOX business were completely unresponsive. Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.
- jon-wood 12y ago
  So long as you have deployment automated, and frequent backups, that shouldn't be a huge issue. One of the many advantages of not having to manually deploy a new box is being able to rapidly get off a bad provider.

sergiotapia 12y ago

Ramnode is fantastic and cheap. http://www.ramnode.com http://www.ramnode.com

notastartup 12y ago
$2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.
- nitrogen 12y ago
  You can run a mostly static site on 64.
- bearbin 12y ago
  Debian minimal, with NGINX or some other light HTTP is easy on even 64 megs. On 128, you can do stuff like PHP and you can run whatever efficient web stuff you like. The web is light, if you're efficient about it. As an aside, one of my friends has a 100 meg free VPS from one of the terrible free vps providers. He has managed to squeeze a Minecraft server on, and that can hold about 2 or 3 players! (apart from the terrible network, cpu and uptime)
- neckro23 12y ago
  It isn't (I have one, a whole $15/year due to some ridiculous sale some months ago). Consider that it's userspace only, so kernel doesn't count. I'm running a (light-duty) nodejs app, nginx to proxy it, tmux, and two irssi instances on mine right now, with memory to spare. Light PHP works fine too (haven't tried anything heavier). A database server or similar wouldn't work, of course.
- insertnickname 12y ago
  If you pay $2/month, you're a sucker; they've got lots of coupons (like the seemingly permanent 25 % discount on their website. If you look a bit further, you'll find even better discounts).
lazylizard 12y ago
vpsdime is crazy cheap...

wcfields 12y ago

I use INIZ[1] 1GB for only $25 a year from a lowendbox special[2]. I don't use it for much so I can't speak with quality/uptime/anything beyond testing/experimentation. 1GB-YEARLY 3 vCores 1GB RAM 512MB vSwap 50GB RAID10 Disk 1TB Outbound BW 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6 OpenVZ/SolusVM [1] http://iniz.com/ http://iniz.com/ [2] http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-1gb-vps-amsterdam-ny-and-la/ http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-...

morganherlocker 12y ago

OP here. I use Hostigation[1]. I know some people are concerned about many of the low end providers, but in this case: 1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble! 2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me. [1] https://hostigation.com/ https://hostigation.com/