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Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Re: Super Cheap Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

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Post by LoneWolf »

angerman wrote: post #7
LoneWolf wrote: post #4

Anyone here who knows/has experience with Hetzner? http://www.hetzner.de/en

If you prefer to have your VPS shielded behind a heavy firewall, why not. But in case you ever intend to do outgoing calls from the server on ports other then the default (80, 443, ...), prepare yourself to do some wrestling with the support and have the IPs of the hosts you want to connect ready. And it /will/ take some time. That's just one of the issues I had to repeatedly deal with. (Consuming some foreign servic…

As long as the default ones are open and without restriction I wouldnt have much problems.

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Post by mjdwitt »

obilgic wrote: post #12

so his suggestions are cheaper than aws's spot instance(5$/mo 600mb)?

Because AWS's prices have to be more expensive in order to offer the huge increase in flexibility and instant scalability that you don't get with these cheaper VPSs.

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Post by waitwhat »

darklajid wrote: post #9

So I thought I give empire-hosting a try to play with a cheap box. >>> Thank you for signing up with us. Your new account has been setup and you can now login to our client area using the details below. Email Address: my.mail@address Password: YepYouGuessWhatWasRightHereInCleartext To login, visit http://secure.empire-hosting.net Ah well.. Let's look at the other recommendations of that list, I guess.

Just because the welcome email contains the password in clear doesn't mean that they permanently store the password in their database unhashed.

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Post by lucaspiller »

Are there any good alternatives to Linode in Europe? I've been using them for years any not had any issues, I'm just wondering if there is anything cheaper, and also thinking about redundancy.

Most of the VPS providers that I've seen are US based, which means 150ms+ pings, which isn't great for SSH.

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Post by victorneo »

For those in Singapore (or neighboring countries), try ExpertVM (http://expertvm.com/).

I have been using them for hosting small Django sites and running SVM classification without any issues. It's cheap if you want to have a VPS to play around with different OS-es (you can reinstall a new OS via the control panel).

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Post by EwanToo »

lucaspiller wrote: post #15

Are there any good alternatives to Linode in Europe? I've been using them for years any not had any issues, I'm just wondering if there is anything cheaper, and also thinking about redundancy. Most of the VPS providers that I've seen are US based, which means 150ms+ pings, which isn't great for SSH.

Rackspace UK's cloud offering is pretty much a VPS with a nice API - it works well and is cheap.

Brightbox.com also do good options for UK based VMs

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Post by gbrindisi »

lucaspiller wrote: post #15

Are there any good alternatives to Linode in Europe? I've been using them for years any not had any issues, I'm just wondering if there is anything cheaper, and also thinking about redundancy. Most of the VPS providers that I've seen are US based, which means 150ms+ pings, which isn't great for SSH.

I am an happy Quickweb (http://quickweb.co.nz) customer. They are cheaper than Linode and they have some nice micro vps offers too.

They are also providing hosting services to LEB (http://www.lowendbox.com)

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Post by jrnkntl »

gbrindisi wrote: post #18
lucaspiller wrote: post #15

Are there any good alternatives to Linode in Europe? I've been using them for years any not had any issues, I'm just wondering if there is anything cheaper, and also thinking about redundancy. Most of the VPS providers that I've seen are US based, which means 150ms+ pings, which isn't great for SSH.

I am an happy Quickweb ( http://quickweb.co.nz ) customer. They are cheaper than Linode and they have some nice micro vps offers too. They are also providing hosting services to LEB ( http://www.lowendbox.com )

.co.nz (New Zealand) doesn't sound like a reasonable alternative for Europe.

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Post by pyrhho »

lucaspiller wrote: post #15

Are there any good alternatives to Linode in Europe? I've been using them for years any not had any issues, I'm just wondering if there is anything cheaper, and also thinking about redundancy. Most of the VPS providers that I've seen are US based, which means 150ms+ pings, which isn't great for SSH.

Linode also has London-based servers...
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