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Cheapest VPS to get started with (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Beautiful-Log5632@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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

Doesn’t paying for hosting defeat the point of this sub? What am I missing?

[–] OzzieOxborrow@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

Depends if selfhosting is about hardware of software. I host a bunch of services in a couple of VPS's. Ony thing I don't have to manage is the hardware and I'm fine with that.

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

Well. If you own a server that is in datacenter i would say that is self hosting. Me and my friends have multiple servers offshore in addition to home servers and we are still hosting to ourselfs.