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

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

#51

Post by tim333 » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

marvel_boy wrote: post #24

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?

I think this thing https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/FreeTier/resource...

some forum discussion https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/160260/oracle-cloud-fr...

seems ok though slowish I/O

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

#52

Post by rumanator » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

mateioprea wrote: post #22

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

I've tried Scaleway once when I applied for their 500€ 1-month credit campaign, but they demanded a CC and to add insult to injury charged me an activation charge that wasn't given back. Twice.

Can't say I recommend them.

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

#53

Post by bennofs » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 8:18 PM UTC

shpx wrote: post #32

There 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…

Actually, you can have multiple github pages sites: just create a new repo with a branch named gh-pages. You can then add a CNAME to that as well.

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

#54

Post by breakerbox » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM.

Lightsail is like swimming in the shallow end of the AWS pool. Doesn’t have a drop down with 50 services like AWS, but has enough to run a small or medium sized web app.

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

#55

Post by ac29 » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 8:31 PM UTC

balkierode wrote: post #14

Google 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.

Just remember Google only gives you 1GB of egress network traffic free, per month. This might be enough for a small personal project, but even a low traffic website will easily surpass that - doing a Show HN or something will blow through that quickly.

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

#56

Post by _nalply » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

Assuming the question is an XY problem and you are really looking for a very simple solution for an Internet server you operate: Have a look at FFTH.

If fiber is offered for your home then you can host your server in your bedroom. This is what I do for my websites, and this is really liberating. Hell, you could serve from a RaspberryPi or if you think this is too extreme, from a mini PC like Gigabyte Brix.

If fiber is not offered, but you plan to relocate anyway, try to optimize for FFTH. This is what I have done, I moved more than a year ago and specifically looked for FTTH.

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

#57

Post by xcircle » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 9:28 PM UTC

I use netcup.eu , a German Provider. They have cheap hour based plans so that you can cancel your plan everytime.

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

#58

Post by craftoman » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:09 PM UTC

Below the cheapest and most reliable VPS providers.

Europe => Hetzner, Scaleway

USA => Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode

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

#59

Post by anonthrowaway28 » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

VPS:

- https://bytemark.co.uk (VPS, colo and leased physical by competent & responsive folks (in Manchester IIRC))

- https://linode.com (more than just Linux)

- https://pair.com (24/7 phone support in North America, has FreeBSD offerings too, been in business a long time)

Bonus: And physical servers: https://unixsurplus.com

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

#60

Post by rcarmo » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 6:56 AM UTC

ac29 wrote: post #55

balkierode wrote: post #14

Google 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.

Just remember Google only gives you 1GB of egress network traffic free, per month. This might be enough for a small personal project, but even a low traffic website will easily surpass that - doing a Show HN or something will blow through that quickly.

Put CloudFlare in front. Works fine for me.