I am thinking of buying a VPS because I want to host some projects on it. I need it to be able to run Linux and must have a great amount of bandwidth (around ~150GB monthly). At least 2GB ram and 50GB Storage. What is your personal recommendation? And it would also be nice if it isn’t expensive.
I am somewhere around Germany.
Edit 1: Thanks to you all, I’ve decided to go with Hetzner as it was the best deal out of all and according to people recommending it, it has excellent uptime.
I have been using Hetzner for a while for my personal projects https://www.hetzner.com/cloud They have reasonable prices and I had no complains on them
I recently found out that a “client” of mine (not really a client, just some people I did a favor to) had a forgotten machine with more than 3 years of uptime on Hetzner. That’s quite the achievement!
Edit: I might add, serving a Wordpress website, still working, unhacked despite minimal configuration. We only found out because MySQL crashed and the machine had to be rebooted.
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Thanks. Took a look at Hetzner and other VPS services, their prices really are reasonable. I most likely will go with Hetzner after waiting for some more recommendations to see if there’s a service that can compete with Hetzner.
Came here to say the same. Hetzner gives good services for the price. My experience with the VPS is that I set it once and it just works with 1.5 year of uptime now. What I really love is that if you need bigger storage but not necessarily fast, you can get storage box for like €4 per 1TB and connect it to your machine with CIFS/SFTP/WebDAV. It works perfectly for my Nextcloud files, while everything else is on fast SSD.
Worth mentioning it makes sense the best if you’re in Europe. Not so much if you’re far away from Germany/Finland and want to have lowest latency possible
Hetzner is absolutely amazing. I’ve had physical servers in their German data centers for years and the few times I’ve had problems, their support was amazingly fast and helpful.
Currently I have two servers there. One AX41-NVMe for applications and an older one from their server auction with 2x 4 TB HDD for storage.
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Linode and Vultr are both cloud providers outside the big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) that are a fair bit less expensive and have a range of instance types you can spin up, plus custom block storage services - they have a few regions to pick from so you can often get one with a low ping to you.
If you want cheaper than that, and are okay with small providers who might not always be as reliable, try something like Lowendbox and check the listings there.
I’m in Europe. Been using Vultr, it’s good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that’s actually in my country.
Hetzner was good when I used it a year ago.
I probably can’t help you since I assume you are not from the same country as me. I would recommend that you use a more or less local service, but in order for us to give good recommendations, you will probably have to tell us where you are located.
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edit: wack, this comment showed up in one of my threads I created so I was super confused. disregard lol
Let’s say around Germany.
In germany, netcup has a quite good price/performance ratio
Oci free tier?
I’ve used Digital Ocean and AWS. Both are fine. DO is more price-effective than AWS for smaller instances. If I need another I am going to try Hetzner. Prices look considerably better for what you get, and lots of positive things being said about it.
I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they’ve never failed me.
IONOS
I host some personal stuff on a DigitalOcean for about a decade now and am quite satisfied. Their tooling is lovely, their reliability is excellent, and their prices are “ok.” (Their additional block storage in particular tends a little expensive.)
Always click around for specials, you can find smaller providers that will be super cheap but have maybe not as great tooling or reliability, several of the medium sized ones like DO, Linode (now part of Akamai), and Vultr usually have a “first month or two/first couple hundred dollars of use free” type new user promotion (Hetzner goes on this size/sophistication class but doesn’t usually run that kind of promo. They also trend a little cheaper).
IMO plumbing the big cloud infra systems like AWS for small projects is usually only worthwhile if you’re either already super in to their tooling, or doing it for practice. Exceptions for certian known intermittent or bursty workloads because the flow for cheap cold storage and/or temporarily scaling up is better on those than the VPS style setups.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve used it, but Vultr had always been good when I used it in the past. I really like that they provided private networking for instances in the same datacenter, a feature which DigitalOcean did not provide.
Their pricing isn’t the best but it’s not awful, and it was pretty reliable for the couple of web servers I hosted with it.
I use https://1984.hosting/, they’re pretty good and reasonably priced (you could find cheaper if you looked around, but I just like their policies better)
I’ve been using netcup for years
I haven’t seen better prices elsewhere, and I have no concerns regarding quality - settings, descriptions, or functionality
