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Cheapest VPS to get started with (alien.top)
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For someone new to self hosting can you recommend cheap VPS to try simple things with? Can pay by hour like some cloud servers let you do or pay full month in advance.

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[–] eric0e@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oracle free tier or look at Low End Box $1/mo page at: https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

I use both.

[–] tm458@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tread lightly with that oracle recommendation even if its working perfectly for you because people in this sub really dislike it.

[–] violet-crayola@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about "oracle can randomly remove everything you have" don't you understand?

[–] froli@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's as random as people make it out to be.

I'm using mine since 2 years now and I got a deletion warning because it was flagged inactive (low CPU usage).

Since then I have a bogus CPU intensive task running in the background and it's still going over 6 months after the warning.

Lots of people probably don't check their mails or break ToS in such a way that they don't even get a warning.

[–] notdoreen@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What can you even do with such low specs? What's the use case?

[–] angerofmars@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The question is what CAN'T you do with it. If you aren't hosting a large scale site or running a media server and just want to tinker, there's a very short list of things it can't do.

[–] Krieg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

What can you even do with such low specs? What's the use case?

Learning.

[–] Patient-Tech@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Headscale/nebula server. Something In the cloud to help NAT punch — nginx reverse proxy. I’m looking to leverage my home servers as if they were in the cloud for as little as possible.

[–] PaulEngineer-89@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those are interesting but what’s not obvious to me, are those regular rates or teaser rates? I mean a static ip costs roughly $0.69/month from what I’ve read. So that leaves very, very little meat on the bone.

[–] froli@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have an actual 1,20$/month VPS with vpshostingservice.co and it has a static ipv4 address, 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM and 15GB SSD storage and unmetered bandwidth.

[–] eric0e@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have several low-cost cloud VPS, all claiming that they will not raise the rate, and so far the rates have stayed the same. I don't know how they do it, and I really don't care. All the systems I am using came with 1 static IPv4 address. A couple also came with IPv6 addresses which I have not setup.

One bills me $1/mo, and gives me a 1Gb network interface with unmetered traffic. I have been running more then 5TB/mo through it, for months now, without any complaints.

Best non-oracle deal I grabbed was a 2 core AMD64, 3GB RAM and 25GB SSD VPS for $13.69/year. I am running a remote Debian desktop on it and using it as a VPN server. They said they will never raise the renewal rate, but they did limited it to 1 VPS per-person, and said it was a one time offer.

[–] therealSoasa@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Just stay away from oracle free tier pls