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Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#11

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Have you tried running Dokku[0] on a VPS?

[0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#12

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative.

https://cloud.google.com/run

My side projects all run for free.

(I work for Google Cloud)

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#13

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

I do CapRover + FaaS on the small $5 droplet on Linode. I run a lot of random stuff out of it, with the only change from me being increasing swap from 512MB to 2GB (it's all SSD backed anyways).

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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post #4

I've used BuyVM for years and they are quite reliable. Though, I had one VPS terminated (including all data wiped) because I didn't pay the monthly invoice within 1 week of the due date. They have one of the most strict timelines on invoices I've ever seen for a web service: 4,2,4 - Unpaid services will be suspended four days past the due date on the service. 4,2,5 - Unpaid services will be terminated seven days past…

Is that $15/year some old offer or is it still available? Not seeing it on the site.

Also, how is that block storage so much cheaper than anyone else's?

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#15

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Have you tried running Dokku[0] on a VPS? [0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku

Seconding this. Big fan of Dokku on a DO droplet as an inexpensive way to make applications.

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#16

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative. https://cloud.google.com/run My side projects all run for free. (I work for Google Cloud)

That.. is really impressive! Had no idea about this, thanks!

For a well rounded review, can you or anyone comment on similar offerings with competitors? I was not familiar with per-request containers, but it sounds like exactly what I wanted.

Thoughts?

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

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I've been a Netcup customer for a year and a half or so, and I love them. Locations in Germany only, but for less than $10/mo (5.29EUR), you're not going to do much better than this on price to spec ratio. Performance is fantastic. I have the 8G/300G SAS rootserver for 8.99EUR (rootservers just give you dedicated cores). Note however that (similar to BuyVM), they are also extremely quick to cancel you outright if you don't pay in time.

https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2006

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#18
If you're willing to take a chance on smaller operations you can get significantly more powerful stuff.

e.g. I purchased a VPS with 3vcore and 4gig RAM at 6 USD a month during black friday

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#19
post #14
post #4

I've used BuyVM for years and they are quite reliable. Though, I had one VPS terminated (including all data wiped) because I didn't pay the monthly invoice within 1 week of the due date. They have one of the most strict timelines on invoices I've ever seen for a web service: 4,2,4 - Unpaid services will be suspended four days past the due date on the service. 4,2,5 - Unpaid services will be terminated seven days past…

Is that $15/year some old offer or is it still available? Not seeing it on the site. Also, how is that block storage so much cheaper than anyone else's?

Their bottom end openvz is 15 bucks. That's probably what he's referring to

https://buyvm.net/openvz-vps/

Re: Low-Cost VPS Testing

#20

I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely. Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based) , but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few a…

Have you tried running Dokku[0] on a VPS? [0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku

No, but that's mainly because I still have to manage the server running Dokku I believe?

edit: For context what I was already using was manual docker on a DO box. While I recognized that Dokku would make it more seamless and easier, my issue was managing and securing the DO VM itself. I didn't see how Dokku would help that scenario

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