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Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by jankiel » Thu May 25, 2017 7:34 pm

Hi all bbquers, i am thinking about buying a VPS, to experiment, and maybe keep some services for daily use; i am sometimes browsing Low End Stock and Low End Box for bargains and cheap VPS-es (if someone doesn't know the website, i recommend). Though i cannot decide, so, have a question for fellow bbquers - do You use VPS, which hosting company, and what VPS provider do You recommend? Of course, it has to be linux vps, but also good if there will be option to set up FreeBSD/OpenBSD, I wanna try them too in some time maybe.
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Re: Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by franksinistra » Fri May 26, 2017 12:35 pm

Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean, or LibertyVPS are pretty cheap. OVH is a lot cheaper, but it sucks big time (slow ass network). Don't use any VPS running under OpenVZ / Xen as it won't do for your use case.
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Re: Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat May 27, 2017 7:02 am

Linode seems to be pretty good and popular.
Maybe wux can chime in?
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Re: Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by wuxmedia » Sun May 28, 2017 10:22 pm

** Chimes**
I use scaleway, they host this site and others and a mailserver.
Web is a 'baremetal' Risc machine in Paris, seems pretty good, of course it's an ARM machine so that does limit packages.

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4 Dedicated ARM Cores
2GB Memory
50GB SSD Disk
1 Flexible public IPv4
200Mbit/s Unmetered bandwidth
1Gbit/s Internal bandwidth
E2.99 Pm
The mailserver needed a X86 machine.

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2 x86 64bit Cores
2GB Memory
50GB SSD Disk
1 Flexible public IPv4
200Mbit/s Unmetered bandwidth
€2.99
Seems their Virtualisation tech is KVM.

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 Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: a5364846584d3d5739c7b90358c065ae
           Boot ID: 2fcfad7122c34717a8a0d78132de2f71
    Virtualization: kvm
  Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
            Kernel: Linux 4.4.38-std-1
      Architecture: x86_64

I was with transIP which was a good one which seemed pro, but it was expensive, I now have those two for less than half the price of the previous machine per month (15 euros pm for a 2core 1Gb machine 50GB ssd IiRC)
Really depends what you are going to do with it, a bit of web doesn't need a huge machine, most of these can even be priced by the hour so
see which one takes your fancy, if you have an install script then you can get the image up and install everything they are all quite similar TBH if you think it's shit then just move on.

^^ need to chat with doubledutch about OVH's shit speeds :)
Is 200Mbit a shit speed? i think that's faster than my home network... I don't really use them as seed boxes or anything needed big data shifting around. bit of an rsync --delete backup to each other
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Re: Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by franksinistra » Mon May 29, 2017 7:02 am

^ I used the one capped to 100Mbps speed (duh). Not that shitty, but I have had the network speed dropped to 1Mbps once I hit the limit (1 TB) ;(

DO and Linode at least offer 1Gbps speed, for about the same price. :)

Edit: That scaleway seems good, will try it next.
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Re: Good but cheap Linux VPS thread

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue May 30, 2017 11:46 am

yeah, dead cheap even with a shitty exchange rate at the moment. I haven't exactly tested the network - transfers stuff at a reasonable speed.

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Transfer:
Total	538.1 GBytes over 91 days
Speed:
Peak	336.2 Mbit/s	9350.2 Pkt/s
Average	582.6 Kbit/s	23.0 Pkt/s
according to ntop
The scaleway control panel isn't too bad. don't really need to do much there, there is a snapshot function, but the server needs to be off, which seems a bit silly.might do that one of these days
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