| ▲ | bananamogul 4 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | coldpie 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > 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? |
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| ▲ | jwrallie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| OVH 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. |
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| ▲ | joering2 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | same 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. |
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| ▲ | opengrass 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | preetamjinka 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah. 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 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | No 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 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I’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. |
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| ▲ | daymanstep 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Lightsail does not offer five nines. |
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| ▲ | walrus01 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Lightsail 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. | |
| ▲ | irishcoffee 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Neither does GitHub, and for whatever reason everyone and their cousin uses it still. :) | | |
| ▲ | serf 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | everyone uses github because everyone uses github. it's relying strictly on social effect right now. | | |
| ▲ | bigstrat2003 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well 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. |
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| ▲ | reassess_blind an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Uptime is overrated. |
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