Submitted 7 months ago by secret300@lemmy.sdf.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world
My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it’s not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.
So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?
Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.
Just a PSA, never ever EVER request deletion of an Oracle free tier if there is any possibility you might want one in the future.
You can delete/remove instances or whatever as you desire, but you won’t be able to get a second free tier account even if the first is completely deleted.
Their free tiers look nice, but I’ve read that your server must stay above X% CPU usage average to prevent deletion, is that true?
No.
I got one. It’s just too slow for what I need and can’t do webrtc because of a hardware limitation.
Did you upgrade your account to a paid one? I’ve read that this might help to precent from being deleted. Even with a paid-as-you-go account you’re able to use the free tiers.
I’m on completely free, no deletionm I’m using it to run Wireguard tunnel to my home network, after I was put behind CGNAT. Domain name pointed to the VPS, it redirects ports to my home.
Interesting, maybe I’ll play around with that. I’m currently on a simple $5/month Hetzner VPS which does everything I need it to do, but maybe I’ll try using it for experimental stuff (considering a Rust build server, for example).
What are the specs like?
24gb memory and 4 OCPU . the CPU doesnt sound like much, but if its using the ampere back end and not the amd micro, the CPU performance scales up with demand (to a point).
I have two containers running, one using 16gb memory and another using 4gb, they each have one cpu and they perform fine for what they do.
I’ve been happy with racknerd. They usually run specials that are pretty reasonable: www.racknerd.com/NewYear/
I did have one rather long outage of about 48 hours once. The host running my VPS had a nic fail. They got it fixed and it’s been solid ever since.
Second racknard. If you Google Black Friday special, you’ll find the page where you can order a VPS with four gigs of RAM for something like $50 a year. It’s not a 12-month special either, you can renew it year after year.
I run docker containers there, a Red Dead redemption 2 server, etc. It’s really useful commodity server to have around,
3rd racknerd – but I just use the cheapest KVM deal in the geographic region I need it in. About $10/yr for single core older Xeons with 768M-1G RAM. Still though I’ve been very happy with them.
I just swapped from ssdNodes to MassiveGRID and I’m pretty happy with them so far (I’m sure there are much better VPS hosts out there). They just extended the sale they posted on lownedboxes through the weekend, so if you pay for 3 years, you get a 4th for free and you also lock-in the pricing for after that 4 year period, too. This is the thread.
If you do decide to order (before Monday) make sure you sign up and make a post in the lowendbox forum thread to get your extra year.
The only real downside to them is they only offer 1Gbps connections for right now (they’re upgrading so you can order multi-Gbps connections in the future), but I’m able to max out the connection: i.xno.dev/u/6ZM52h.png
These are the specs: i.xno.dev/u/qJeLjE.png And this is proof of the 4th year: i.xno.dev/u/0xN6Z0.png
So I ended up paying $141.28 for 4 years which is $2.94/mo. Very worth it, IMO considering the specs.
Just tried massiveGRID and their VPS have massive issues. They randomly halt for a second to 5 seconds and just stops responding to any call. Sometime I randomly see a packet with 1000ms to 2000ms with no reason, while CPU usage is under 10% and the server is basically idling (on a simple ping).
This shit happens every minute or so, it’s so annoying
Avoid.
This is mind-blowing to me. I’ve been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I’ve not had a single one.
This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: x0.at/daqx.png
My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I’m paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I’m okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.
I’m looking hard for flaws but they’re no better, but no worse than any provider I’ve ever had. 🤷♂️
Thank you. I was paying that yearly for my VPS with half the specs.
Ya, like I said. I jumped on them because of the price. The hardware isn’t the most powerful in the world, but to run my hosted services it’s been excellent so far. I’m super happy and I’m paying next to nothing which is great.
Oooh this seems like a really good value
That’s what I said. I liked ssdNodes too, but they’re much more expensive. I generally troll around lowendbox every now and again for good deals and when I saw this one I checked it out and decided to take the plunge. I like them so far.
Disk read/writes are a little slow because they use ceph volumes for H/A storage, but there are tons of benchmarks in that lowendbox thread. I highly recommend you check them out before you order and make sure they’ll be good enough for you. But if they are, should be a good value.
You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.
They refused my visa during the onboarding, a bit surprising
Credit card? Have things changed? I have two containers hosted there and I never gave mine.
Already got one of those but thanks
It seems permanently unavailable, how did you get an instance?
Any caveats to it?
Just don’t try to run huge amounts of bandwidth or 'irate content on it and you’ll be fine. It does need a credit card on file, but it cannot charge it unless you explicity disable free tier.
I’ve had this site bookmarked for a while, but I’ve not actually evaluated them: lowendbox.com
I’m reasonably happy with Hetzner, except the recent gutting of transfer quotas in their non-EU data centers. They’re still super competitive though, so I’ll probably stick with them.
I have no idea about Minecraft hosting though.
I’ve had a good experience with RamNode, and very little limitations in what I can do.
They used to be based in Atlanta, GA but were recently bought out by another slightly larger provider. I haven’t had any negative experiences since the buy out.
Before I grew enough spare capacity at home to self host our family’s server, I was using MCPro hosting. It was fine and at the time, cheap. I understand they’ve been bought by Apex now though. No experience with them.
I’ve been using Contabo. German company, several geographic locations for your nodes, reasonably priced.
I was happy with Cloudfanatic.
I’ve used EthernetServers .com and they have had good support, good support response times, and overall good service. I would gladly work with them again.
Silly question but isn’t using a VPC the exact opposite of “self hosted”?
The opposite of self-hosted would be managed service.
You run it yourself at your own location however you want it
Vs
Someone runs it for you at their location. However the want it
VPS is someone loans you a VM at their location that you run yourself however you want to.
It’s still relevant to self-hosted because you still have to do all the work, you were just using their network, power, air conditioning, hardware and fire suppression. You’re still in the hook for installs and patches, configuration, and software issues.
For me, self-hosting is about staying in control over your software and data, so I think hosting in a VPS still fits the bill, even if it isn’t the way most people go about it
Aren’t you partially not in control? If that hardware gets nuked some how then you’re compromised
The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.
Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.
This is one of those things where I think that purity might conflict with progress. I am currently using a VPS in a privacy-friendly country to host some stuff, and I am trying to move more of my needs there. I can easily try to host things at my house(and I do to a limited extent, I have a VPN I run through a VPS to connect my devices together to accomplish this), but dealing with the constraints of non-professional hardware management and a residential internet connection is frustrating. This frustration has in the past prevented me from reducing my use of services where I know they are farming my data, and would probably honor illegal and warrant-less data requests from government agencies. At least with IaaS, I give them money in exchange for a virtual machine, vs SaaS where I give them possibly money but more importantly permission to do whatever they want with my highly structured data(far easer to data mine a easily searchable database of PII vs a filesystem of unknown structure).
Even outside of tech, I have often found that my sense of purity gets in the way of actually making progress towards my values. Use the VPS if it will get you to stop using worse things.
jonathanrdd@community.nodebb.org 3 days ago
For Minecraft plus some docker stuff, I'd skip OpenVZ and go for KVM.