In France: OVH. Their kimsufi lineup is hard to beat.
Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
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#42Heroku is free if you don't need constant uptime (it shuts down your server when it's idle for a while and starts it back up when a request comes in). Then the cheapest paid tier is $7.
It's also really pleasant because you deploy by just pushing your code; no SSHing or cron jobs. You do code an entire server process; you just don't manage it. So it's like halfway-serverless.
The downside, other than being $7 instead of $5, is that that's only for a single process; you can't run multiple low-compute servers within that $7. The file system also gets wiped whenever you deploy, so it's not appropriate for a database.
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#43Now, you are asking for subscription-based, but have you considered that it is perfectly possible to host on your own hardware at home perfectly fine for experimental/personal stuff? Just buy the cheapest Raspberry Pi (or a clone or whatever) and hook it up at home, that's certainly going to be cheaper than any of the cloud providers being thrown around here, only the cheapest lowendtalk offers might be cheaper still.
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#44OVH, Hetzner, and the whole Low End family
But nowadays you can get servers for free. AWS, Google, and even Oracle have free triers:
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#45Hetzner. They offer VMs with 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 3€/month. Quite a deal.
I second Hetzner. Their smallest VPS has been reliable for me and is even a bit cheaper than OVH. More importantly, should something go wrong or you have a question, you can expect a quite fast reply.
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#46I know you aren't interested in server hardware, but you should be. You can get extremely cheap used servers from eBay, Craigslist, or government auctions, and you can get extremely cheap rackspace in colocation centers.
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#47I know you aren't interested in server hardware, but you should be. You can get extremely cheap used servers from eBay, Craigslist, or government auctions, and you can get extremely cheap rackspace in colocation centers.
That's unlikely to be "cheap" compared to what a student needs for the first few experiments.
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#48There 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…
Many cloud providers like digital ocean have student offers [1] with GitHub student developer program worth trying out.
[1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/were-participating-in-githubs-...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
#49I know you aren't interested in server hardware, but you should be. You can get extremely cheap used servers from eBay, Craigslist, or government auctions, and you can get extremely cheap rackspace in colocation centers.
That's unlikely to be "cheap" compared to what a student needs for the first few experiments.
That would depend entirely on the nature of the experiments.
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#50Google cloud free tier gives everyone (not just students) one 'always' free vps instance. It works great for me. Oracle promised 2 instances but got an error 'out of capacity' error instead. Support staff confirmed they dont have hardware in my region.
I was using that feature for the last year or so but recently they took away the public IP address. So I think it’s no longer free for common use cases like hosting a website. Correct me if I’m wrong!