Comment on An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider)
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
One man’s dream VPS is another man’s nightmare VPS.
I do business with Contabo. They did raise my monthly by $1. I’m still with them, I have had no real issues with their service. I also do business with Ethernet Services. They are bare bones, no frills, hosters. I pay $25 per year with them so I don’t really expect that much in return except for keeping everything online and they do a fairly good job of it. Their service tickets are slow, but they’ll get around to you.
LuxVPS is my latest host. I get more bang for buck from them:
- Black Luxury Deal #1
4 vCores (Xeon Gold 6150)- 26 GB DDR4 RAM
- 150 GB Raid 1 NVMe
- 1 Gbit internet speed | 40 TB Traffic
- 1x IPv4
- 1x /64 IPv6
- 3.2Tbit Premium DDoS Protection
- 24/7 Ticket Support
- 4 Backups
- For ONLY 10€/Mo (recurring)
Their only caveat is that you have to pay extra for mail ports.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Yeah, wow, I was surprised and a bit concerned with OP’s post. Except for never answering customer support tickets, they’ve been great, and the price increases have been both rare and low. I’d hate to have to migrate off.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As I mentioned, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. One thing I don’t like about Contabo is that you can only maintain one snapshot at a time and there is no automatic way to create multiple snapshots. I did find an n8n flow that does just that.
sxan@midwest.social 6 days ago
I think you’re probably looking a step more “enterprise” than I am. I’m doing nightly backups to B2; if one of my servers dies, my recovery is to spend a couple minutes re-installing Arch and then couple hours restoring from backup. My services are predominantly in containers, so it really is just a matter of install, restore, reboot. There are things I inevitably miss, like turning on systemd’s persistent user services; my recovery times is on the order of hours, not including the fact I’m not actively monitoring for downtime and it could take a few hours for me to even notice something is down.
Like I said: totally not enterprise level, but then, if I have a day’s outage, it’s an annoyance, not a catastrophe.