I want to get a new VPS. It’ll mostly be used to host lightweight Docker images, and reverse proxying through Caddy. So, decent CPU and fast network speeds are the main things I need.

I have a cheap VPS with RackNerd. It’s fine, but only has a single CPU core, which gets overwhelmed if multiple connections are trying to pull stuff from some service. So, I guess having multiple cores is a requirement as well.

I want to spend around $5/month, but willing to go a little higher if it’s worth it. Any suggestions are appreciated.

P.S. I’m based in US and would prefer something in here for lower latency.

Update: Hetzner’s CX22 IPV6 only plan seems to be very good in terms of price-performance ratio. But the servers are in Europe. I’m planning to try it out for a while and see how the latency is. It’s great that they don’t lock you in with yearly plans.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I know I’ll be told that it is a shit company, but Oracle free VPS works like a charm for me. Using it to circumvent CGNAT by running Wireguard on it

    • ambitiousslab@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      As a note of caution, I used Oracle’s free tier to run a personal Matrix server, and it got deleted without any advance warning after a few months. I migrated to another provider and haven’t had any issues for 2+ years now.

      • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I got notification from them that they will stop unused machine. I’ve just rebooted and didn’t get anything for a few months now

  • randombullet@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If you’re okay being in the EU, I use Ionos. €1 a month with a IPv4 address and no contract.

    On the US side, Oracle has a free tier for 2 arm CPUs. You could load balance between them, but they’re still kinda slow.

    Either of these you can test for very low costs and see what you enjoy.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          They have many bad customers running things like email servers to send out spam. They then seen to ignore the problem which leads to digital ocean getting blocked.

          • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Now that you say that once I had Microsoft refusing to receive email sent by a DO IP but I filled some form and the block was lifted in a few hours.