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You may look at lowendbox.com for some really cheap vps options, performance may not be ideal. Also beware that you might end up in an unsavory ip address range, fine for most things but any emails sent from that ip will most likely fail.
>might end up in an unsavory ip address range What is that? you mean, like, bots are run from such a range?
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>might end up in an unsavory ip address range What is that? you mean, like, bots are run from such a range?
Biggest issue is spammers, resulting in anti-spam blacklists blocking the IP ranges, so many mail servers won't accept mail you try to send from there.
Since you're shopping around, take a look at Vultr [0]. It's the same price ($5/month) and they've been recommended before by other HNers. If you're just toying around for now, AWS offers a free 'micro' instance. It's low-powered but enough to run a simple, low-volume site on. [0]: https://www.vultr.com/
Check OVH [0] ($3.49 is the lowest plan) or for even less, take a look at Time4VPS [1], they have really cheap servers, but I wouldn't use them in production only for dev and private use. [0]: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml [1]: https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/
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BTW, after looking a few of the options (both those I found on my own and those mentioned here), I saw that some of them mention things like OpenVZ. I guess that is the virtualization software used. Do we need to know something about the underlying virtualization software / hypervisor that runs the VPS, or is it enough to know Linux? Last VPS I used, I only interacted with Centos, and did not know what the virtualiza…
BTW, after looking a few of the options (both those I found on my own and those mentioned here), I saw that some of them mention things like OpenVZ. I guess that is the virtualization software used. Do we need to know something about the underlying virtualization software / hypervisor that runs the VPS, or is it enough to know Linux? Last VPS I used, I only interacted with Centos, and did not know what the virtualiza…
There are differences in performance and implementation technology that can affect performance and such, but normal Linux administration techniques should always work. IDK off the top of my head, but OpenVZ guests I think need to run the same kernel version as the host, so that may play into it. KVM and Xen I belive don't have this drawback. OpenVZ doesn't give you dedicated access to resources i.e. it will allow oth…