I am thinking of buying a VPS because I want to host some projects on it. I need it to be able to run Linux and must have a great amount of bandwidth (around ~150GB monthly). At least 2GB ram and 50GB Storage. What is your personal recommendation? And it would also be nice if it isn’t expensive.
I am somewhere around Germany.
Edit 1: Thanks to you all, I’ve decided to go with Hetzner as it was the best deal out of all and according to people recommending it, it has excellent uptime.
I have been using Hetzner for a while for my personal projects https://www.hetzner.com/cloud They have reasonable prices and I had no complains on them
I recently found out that a “client” of mine (not really a client, just some people I did a favor to) had a forgotten machine with more than 3 years of uptime on Hetzner. That’s quite the achievement!
Edit: I might add, serving a Wordpress website, still working, unhacked despite minimal configuration. We only found out because MySQL crashed and the machine had to be rebooted.
Came here to say the same. Hetzner gives good services for the price. My experience with the VPS is that I set it once and it just works with 1.5 year of uptime now. What I really love is that if you need bigger storage but not necessarily fast, you can get storage box for like €4 per 1TB and connect it to your machine with CIFS/SFTP/WebDAV. It works perfectly for my Nextcloud files, while everything else is on fast SSD.
Worth mentioning it makes sense the best if you’re in Europe. Not so much if you’re far away from Germany/Finland and want to have lowest latency possible
Also using Hetzner, can’t complain and the pricing is good.
I am also using Hetzner Cloud. Pretty satisfied so far. They have reasonable prices for their products. Also, no complaints.
When it comes to raw performance, DigitalOcean seems to be slightly better, but also much more expensive.
I think where you are (country) is kinda relevant?
Linode and Vultr are both cloud providers outside the big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) that are a fair bit less expensive and have a range of instance types you can spin up, plus custom block storage services - they have a few regions to pick from so you can often get one with a low ping to you.
If you want cheaper than that, and are okay with small providers who might not always be as reliable, try something like Lowendbox and check the listings there.
I’m in Europe. Been using Vultr, it’s good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that’s actually in my country.
Hetzner was good when I used it a year ago.
Oci free tier?
I probably can’t help you since I assume you are not from the same country as me. I would recommend that you use a more or less local service, but in order for us to give good recommendations, you will probably have to tell us where you are located.
In germany, netcup has a quite good price/performance ratio
I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they’ve never failed me.
I’m currently experimenting with signaltransmitter. Their website could use some polishing and there are not that many OSes to choose from, but the pricing is better than DO.
I use https://1984.hosting/, they’re pretty good and reasonably priced (you could find cheaper if you looked around, but I just like their policies better)
I’m using the free tier of oracle for a Minecraft server and for something free it’s really powerful (4 ocpus and 16Gb ram) although I think it might get revoked if the VPs is not used enough and I haven’t touched other things than ssh and serving minecraft
To verify only a single account per person, Oracle asks you to put your credit card and will test it with a small transaction. Subscribing from here https://www.oracle.com/it/cloud/free/
My bank refuses to let the transaction trough, as its an unknown company to them. And apparently it doesn’t even reach their systems when I call them on the phone, but it reaches the bank’s mobile app that will ask me if I confirm the transaction. The app will show Declined even if I accept it. It doesn’t do this with other services, only and exclusively the test transaction of Oracle.
In the end I opted for something else.
Huh very weird, never had a payment refused because a company is “unknown” (especially for something as big as ORACLE). I’d call the bank, but maybe the hassle is not worth it
I got said that when I called, every time I called. Alway tried unlocking the validation. “Wait a week”, a week passed and more and nothing happened
4 cpus and 16gb ram for free? sounds too good to be true.
I’ve been enjoying CyberGhost. It’s cheap (I paid a reasonable fee for 3 years) and you can use it on 7 devices.
“VPS” not “VPN”.
