Veeble | Webdock | Milesweb | Cloudfanatic | Time4vps | Hetzner | Vpsdime | Zap-hosting I’m looking for cheap VPS options. I’m trying to run Syncthing, a caldev server and maybe a searXng instance as well. Also what would be the catch with cheap VPS providers?
From your list, I’d go with hetzner. Racknerd is another good cheap option.
Also check out lowendtalk or lowendbox. Various providers post deals there petty often and the community is active.
I use Hetzner exclusively and have just one complaint. You don’t get much choice as to where your VPS is hosted country-wise nor the OS it runs. You do get the standard list of options, as you would with any other provider, except that list is quite small on Hetzner. It’s good enough, I use Fedora everywhere and they support that so I’m good. Anyway, it’s obviously free to create an account so there’s no risk in case your setup isn’t supported.
Apart from that, they’re brilliant. The web console is nice, clean and well-designed, great value (1TB of storage clocks in at a few euros/month), room to scale and a decent company. Can’t comment on customer support since I’ve never needed it.
For the services you’ve specified, that’ll run you maybe 3 - 4 euros a month (that’s with automatic backups of your entire server + tax) since you can run all of that under one server.
Agreed on Hetzner, although I have used customer support—to add another distro option. Sent them a web link, and they had it uploaded under my account by the next day.
Oh wow, that’s pretty awesome.
Cheap but powerful VPS? NetCup ARM-Server or normal x86 VPS. Both are good
You know what sucks? Getting your VPS shut off or account suspended. All your data gone in an instant, not recoverable. You don’t have access to the metal, and the metal no longer has access to you.
Hetzner is known for randomly boinking accounts. You update billing info? Whoops maybe shutoff. You login via a VPN, account disabled. Just randomly for no reason, account locked and VPS down.
You have basically zero recourse. Their support staff suck and the immediate reaction is suspend and delete. NEVER use them for anything you don’t consider temporary.
I’ve used Hetzner for years without issue. Accessed through VPNs to the control panel without problems, changed password no issue, etc. I’ve never heard of them being “known for” the behavior you describe. This is just anecdote vs anecdote, though. I’d be interested to see some kinda evidence of what you’re saying.
Any suggestions for bulk storage? I use their storage box for off-site backups of the nas critical data (a touch over 1TB). It’s my tertiary backup (another off-site, a local full, and this) but I was testing it to replace my current off-site.
I’ve asked my vps provider about it, and it’s on the roadmap but not yet ready, so I’ve been lightly searching around.
Purely for storage, no processing? I just finally got around to checking pricing and went with Backblaze B2. Not certain it’s the best, or cheapest, but I’m serving files out of it through cloudflare and it seemed to be a decent choice.
I had B2 a few years ago and it wasn’t that cheap, even though everyone raved about it. I moved to synology’s c2 backup, which is like a dollar fifty more a month but is well-integrated with their nas OS. But I’m up against the 1TB limit and to get more I’d have to get another TB. I thought Hetzner was the solution for this with their storage box but now I’m worried. And price-wise, 5TB of Hetzner is about the same of 2TB with synology c2… blah.
Of all those, I’ve only heard of Heztner. Am I out of touch?
I’ve been a Linode customer for years, and I used to use Digital Ocean as well. I’ve been happy with them, did you consider them?
I’m guessing if they want to run syncthing they have a lot of data to store and linode/do is expensive for that
Out of those I’ve tried hetzner and milesweb and I thought hetzner was better in terms of ping times for me and easy to use
Had this topic today with a friend. ionos offers 1 vCore, 1GB Ram and 10GB SSD for 1€ a month.
Do they accept crypto payments? If they do, I’d rent some without second thought
AFAIK only credit card, PayPal and sepa/debit card
does that include a ipv4 address?
If cheap (but reliable) is your main criteria, check out buyvm.net they’ve been solid over the years
Hetzner if you are in the EU, dirt cheap haven’t had a problem. Had to use customer support once, wasn’t a problem either.
I’ve been using Hetzner at work now for more than ten years and for my personal stuff for more than five. I haven’t tried many others but I haven’t had a reason to do so
It’s not on your list but 1984. Iceland based, good for privacy, runs on renewable energy. You can install YUNOhost on it and easily run the things you mentioned plus a bunch of other stuff like email.
based on the book 1984?
Exactly https://1984.hosting/about/
Out of that list I use OVHCloud. Their VPS are built on Epyc (atleast they are in London), which gives very high performance for a low price.
Whatever one has a data center closest to you. If the VPS is on the other side of the country, the ping time will be very high.
Geographic proximity doesn’t necessarily relate to network proximity, but it’s usually pretty close. Sometimes if a route is particularly bad, your traffic might go across the ocean and back.
I moved from kts24 to a hetzner arm node earlier this week. So far I’m very impressed.
Hetzner wanted to charge me more because I am from “risky” country. Idiots…
I use Time4Vps now. Works fine with one downtime in a year. Their prices are reasonable.
If you care about privacy, choose 1984. Located in Iceland and good service.
Edit: typo
*Iceland. I recommend them too.
