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.
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
They have multiple locations in the US now too.
Also using Hetzner, can’t complain and the pricing is good.
I am also using Hetzner Cloud. Pretty satisfied so far. They have reasonable prices for their products. Also, no complaints.
When it comes to raw performance, DigitalOcean seems to be slightly better, but also much more expensive.
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’ve been using netcup for years
I haven’t seen better prices elsewhere, and I have no concerns regarding quality - settings, descriptions, or functionality
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.
Oci free tier?
In germany, netcup has a quite good price/performance ratio
Have had really good experiences with them as well, no real uptime issues on top of the mentioned good price/performance ratio.
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
I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they’ve never failed me.
I use linode as well. They have a solid customer service and have yet to fail unless I did something stupid.
I use Linode as well. Their lower tiers are pretty reasonable, but the prices go up really fast as you get into bigger instances. I’m looking at moving my Lemmy instance over to Hetzner for that reason.
I’m using the free tier of oracle for a Minecraft server and for something free it’s really powerful (4 ocpus and 16Gb ram) although I think it might get revoked if the VPs is not used enough and I haven’t touched other things than ssh and serving minecraft
To verify only a single account per person, Oracle asks you to put your credit card and will test it with a small transaction. Subscribing from here https://www.oracle.com/it/cloud/free/
My bank refuses to let the transaction trough, as its an unknown company to them. And apparently it doesn’t even reach their systems when I call them on the phone, but it reaches the bank’s mobile app that will ask me if I confirm the transaction. The app will show Declined even if I accept it. It doesn’t do this with other services, only and exclusively the test transaction of Oracle.
In the end I opted for something else.
Huh very weird, never had a payment refused because a company is “unknown” (especially for something as big as ORACLE). I’d call the bank, but maybe the hassle is not worth it
I got said that when I called, every time I called. Alway tried unlocking the validation. “Wait a week”, a week passed and more and nothing happened
4 cpus and 16gb ram for free? sounds too good to be true.
it’s true, I used it before Oracle left Russia, the only “catch” is that it’s Oracle and the CPU arch is Arm.
The offer is:
- at most 2 x86 VMs, I don’t remember the details but it was 1 or 2 gigs of ram each
- 4 virtual Arm cores and 16GB of ram for them that you can split between VMs as you wish
- you have to use at least 50gb per vm, and you have a total of 200gb free storage
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.
Hetzner all the way. Using them for few years and zero problems. Before that was using scaleway they had some problems, VPS was down for a week.
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.
IONOS
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
