Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by Stevvo » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

OVH, their cheapest brand is Kimsufi. From five euros a month. i.e. your own box for the price of a VPN.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by mateioprea » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

I'm using scaleway.com. For $3/month you get 2vcpus, 2GB RAM and 20GB ssd.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by jppope » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #19

I use digitalocean. Not because they are cheap but because they are great. It just so happens they have a $5 / month plan for a 1 CPU core / 1GB of memory / 25GB SSD server.

agreed. I also use AWS for certain projects... IMO- Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by marvel_boy » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

joe_bleau wrote: post #8

Sounds crazy, but the Orcale free tier might work for you. Enough to run two small Linux VPS instances free.

Do you mean Oracle Cloud?

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by speedypete » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

scaleway.com and hetzner.com

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by peterwwillis » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #3

LowEndTalk offers Very cheap but don't be surprised if a supplier goes out of business/disappears so strategize accordingly. Plus then of course all the major cloud provide a intro credit. So that should cover about 3 years worth of basic VPS

I love the lowendbox/lowendtalk forums. Dig in and you learn all kinds of inside information about the various discount hosting companies and their bizarre drama. You also learn how to spot actually reliable, professionally managed services, versus the fly by night people just looking to take your money and bail.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by pnutjam » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

Time4vps has some of the best prices I can find for storage. I've been using one for a could years with no problems.

Virmach seems to have comparable prices, but I haven't used them.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by wensheng » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

AWS EC2 reserved instances, pay upfront for 3 years, it works out cheaper than digitalocean/linode.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by peterwwillis » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

For websites, just use GitHub Pages. It's totally free, very reliable, and extremely easy. It feels like a nerdier GeoCities, but without the composing tools.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

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Post by hmart » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

I have my important VPSs on Linode since 2008, good experience, almost zero downtime in 10+ years, very reliable, great customer support. They have a $5/mo Nanode 1CPU, 1 GB Ram.