Hetzner. They offer VMs with 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 3€/month. Quite a deal.
Decent uptime too. I have a vm running there with over 3 years of uptime. Not bad considering the price.
Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#32There are at least 5 providers that will rent you a $5/month server: DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr. There's a guy that publishes benchmarks of their $5 instance regularly
https://joshtronic.com/2019/09/02/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
DigitalOcean is by far the most popular. Personally, I like Vultr because they also have $2.50 IPv6 only instances and you can upload your own ISO file if you want to try a less popular Linux distribution. Both services have similar user interfaces that are pretty good.
That being said, $60/year is still a lot. If you can get away with just a static site, try GitHub pages https://pages.github.com/. You only get one (unless you create GitHub organizations) but it's free. You can still have your own domain pointing to it with TLS (free through Let's Encrypt). You miss out on the fun of managing a Linux server unfortunately.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#33Hetzner is great. Cheap for what you get.
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#34I've been on Digital Ocean for a few years, pretty happy with them and have no plans to move on. I was on Hetzner before them, but moved away because the pricing was essentially the same yet Hetzner's control panel (at least back then - I'm talking before 2015) was a bit of a pain, and DO's is all shiny, and I find what I'm looking for quickly, most of the time. Hetzner's admin panel might have come a long way since then though?
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#35Vultr: 1 vCPU / 512MB RAM / 500 GB bandwidth for $2.5 a month [0]. I ran a VPN with them, once.
https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/
For webpages, I have been using https://1mb.site (free custom domain and TLS) and https://netlify.com
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#36Also check to see what free stuff you can get through your school!
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#37Linode. Cheap but not too cheap, still reliable.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#38There are at least 5 providers that will rent you a $5/month server: DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr. There's a guy that publishes benchmarks of their $5 instance regularly https://joshtronic.com/2019/09/02/vps-showdown-digitalocean-... DigitalOcean is by far the most popular. Personally, I like Vultr because they also have $2.50 IPv6 only instances and you can upload your own ISO file if you want…
Yep. I use DO and it’s been just fine for low traffic websites. They’ve been great to work with and very easy to use. But I only host personal projects and internal tooling projects with them. Can’t speak to scaling but my experience has been positive.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#39I'm using scaleway.com. For $3/month you get 2vcpus, 2GB RAM and 20GB ssd.
And great unmetered bandwidth
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#40Linode. Cheap but not too cheap, still reliable.
My choice too. Been pretty reliable and perform well. Easy to find a $20 credit for new customers on podcasts and other ads.