Same same, sucks as they seemed neutral but boy do they not seem to care about appearances.
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zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sigh time to find a new vps host for my projects
gooeyglob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago 
marighost@piefed.social 3 weeks ago I use Contabo, decent price for a solid VPS. Have only had 12hrs~ of downtime once in the 6 or 8 months I’ve been a subscriber.
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That sounds like terrible reliability. If my home lab had an outage like that I would shut it down as I clearly don’t know how to run a dependable system. 😅
bretton.dev@coves.social 3 weeks ago
Anyone have any recommendations?
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
I use GreenCloudVPS for a bunch of things. They used to have VPSes starting at $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB disk, but their current budget deals are still good (starts at $25/year for 4GB RAM and 35GB disk). These are on older hardware (mostly AMD EPYC Rome Zen 2 systems, ~5 years old) which is why they haven’t been affected by increased RAM and storage prices yet.
greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
They also have “premium” plans which are newer (AMD EPYC Milan Zen 3 or Genoa Zen 4, and PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage in RAID10): greencloudvps.com/billing/store/premium-kvm-sale
I suspect they’ll eventually increase the pricing, but I’ve been using them for five years and haven’t seen them increase pricing for existing customers, just new customers.
HostHatch is good too. Their regular pricing aims to compete with Hetzner, but in 13 locations worldwide. hosthatch.com/products. They do sometimes have sales on LowEndTalk with pricing similar to GreenCloud’s “premium” plans.
If you want to stick to big names, OVHcloud and Hetzner both have pretty good VPS pricing. OVH runs theirs on very old hardware like Haswell (2014/2015 era) Xeon E5 CPUs which is the main reason why they have cheaper pricing that Hetzner.
If you’re using AWS for anything, they have a service called Lightsail that’s essentially Amazon’s version of a VPS. Storage and data transfer are included in the monthly price (unlike EC2).
xSikes@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Thanks for sharing
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
I forgot to mention - stay far away from SSDNodes. Their prices look good, but they massively oversell their RAM. They use ballooning (
virtio_balloon) to overallocate RAM, and require you to use their customized Linux distro images that have it enabled. Ballooning means that they take unused RAM from your VM and lend it to other VMs to use. If you try to use all your RAM, they shut down your VPS.GreenCloud, HostHatch, and RackNerd all let you install whatever OS you want, by mounting an ISO, connecting to the VPS via VNC, and going through the normal setup process just like you would on a regular computer. They do have pre-built images, but I always prefer to install from my own ISO so I know that the installation doesn’t have any non-standard modifications.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Hetzner was good for me, but I went all-in on bare metal, with no looking back.
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
How did you do that, self host? Co-locate?
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
My guess would be renting a dedicated server, or a home server. It can end up cheaper than colo.
Hosting at home, renting a dedicated server, or colocating are all considered self-hosting.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I may need to do a proper write up on that one, as it’s quite a long story actually. The main thing is, though: it’s hard to believe how actually good modern hardware is. You can do a lot with a Raspberry Pi, not to say Mac mini. Over the decades, I accumulated some old hardware which serves till it would break. And then I’d replace it with similar hardware, I guess. E.g. I have a media server, which is a simple lighttpd web server running on an obsolete Intel Atom computer. It’s slow, but it does its job at serving files. I have old MacBook Pro hosting my Immich library.
All that is rather a self-hosted territory, but I’m pretty confident I can host a production grade stuff off my own hardware. I have been using the cheapest options at DO/Hetzner, so I definitely can host off a maxed out Mac mini or similar.
All that lives at home, or in the office (I am allowed to have some hardware there). I think the main restriction is the gigabit internet… but hey! That’s plenty too!
If I’d ever come to some serious level of hosting, yes, I think I’d co-locate at some data centre. I see very little need in cloud services, as all I need can be done with the bare metal. And it’s so much fun! Feels like magic, seeing an old laptop you’d throw out otherwise, serving as what would be a full-blown server just two decades ago.
Their auctioned baremetal servers are a steal
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hetzner recently skyrocketed the pricing of their VPS offerings.
sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
OVH has been reliable and boring afaik
BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well, they did have that datacenter burn down a few years ago, so.not entirely boring.
But they’ve been an otherwise solid provider for me. I’ve been using their services for years. Started with VPS and now on a bare metal server. Older hardware but great fornwhat i use it for. Been nothing but pleased with them.
AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I thought RackNerd had a better deal for me than digital ocean
Hetzner Cloud
Check out Linode, it’s easy to use, reasonably priced, and as far as I know, hasn’t done anything disgusting.
Only downside is that they were acquired a little while ago by a publicly traded company, so the likwlyhood of enshitification is higher.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Linode? You mean Akamai Connected Cloud?
Whatever their rebrand is these days lol.
I’m looking at Linode currently
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
They’re reliable, but overpriced for what you get, especially after the Akamai acquisition. Akamai are not known for affordability :)