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Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose.

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    Oooh this seems like a really good value

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    That's what I said. I liked ssdNodes too, but they're much more expensive. I generally troll around lowendbox every now and again for good deals and when I saw this one I checked it out and decided to take the plunge. I like them so far.

    Disk read/writes are a little slow because they use ceph volumes for H/A storage, but there are tons of benchmarks in that lowendbox thread. I highly recommend you check them out before you order and make sure they'll be good enough for you. But if they are, should be a good value.

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      My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

      So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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      @secret300 Ethernetservers.com

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        My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

        So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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        I've had a good experience with RamNode, and very little limitations in what I can do.

        They used to be based in Atlanta, GA but were recently bought out by another slightly larger provider. I haven't had any negative experiences since the buy out.

        https://ramnode.com/

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          That's what I said. I liked ssdNodes too, but they're much more expensive. I generally troll around lowendbox every now and again for good deals and when I saw this one I checked it out and decided to take the plunge. I like them so far.

          Disk read/writes are a little slow because they use ceph volumes for H/A storage, but there are tons of benchmarks in that lowendbox thread. I highly recommend you check them out before you order and make sure they'll be good enough for you. But if they are, should be a good value.

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          welp... that's $200 gone. I'ma see if I can get a refund

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            welp... that's $200 gone. I'ma see if I can get a refund

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            I forgot to warn you about that! I got the same thing and opened a ticket about it: http://i.xno.dev/u/B0C5Fe.png

            It took about an hour for the VM to come online. haha, sorry.

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              I've been happy with racknerd. They usually run specials that are pretty reasonable:
              https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

              I did have one rather long outage of about 48 hours once. The host running my VPS had a nic fail. They got it fixed and it's been solid ever since.

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              Second racknard. If you Google Black Friday special, you'll find the page where you can order a VPS with four gigs of RAM for something like $50 a year. It's not a 12-month special either, you can renew it year after year.

              I run docker containers there, a Red Dead redemption 2 server, etc. It's really useful commodity server to have around,

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                My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                I've had this site bookmarked for a while, but I've not actually evaluated them: https://lowendbox.com/

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                • S [email protected]

                  My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                  So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                  I was happy with Cloudfanatic.

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                  • S [email protected]

                    My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                    So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                    I've been using Contabo. German company, several geographic locations for your nodes, reasonably priced.

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                      My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                      So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                      Before I grew enough spare capacity at home to self host our family’s server, I was using MCPro hosting. It was fine and at the time, cheap. I understand they’ve been bought by Apex now though. No experience with them.

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                        My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                        So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                        You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.

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                          You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.

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                          Already got one of those but thanks

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                          • S [email protected]

                            My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                            So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                            Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.

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                              My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                              So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                              I'm reasonably happy with Hetzner, except the recent gutting of transfer quotas in their non-EU data centers. They're still super competitive though, so I'll probably stick with them.

                              I have no idea about Minecraft hosting though.

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                                Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.

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                                Did you upgrade your account to a paid one? I've read that this might help to precent from being deleted. Even with a paid-as-you-go account you're able to use the free tiers.

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                                  My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                                  So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                                  Just an FYI getting a vps or dedicated server that is fast enough for Minecraft modpacks is going to be fairly expensive. It might be cheaper to get shared hosting for the MC server and a separate vps for the docker stuff.

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                                    You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.

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                                    They refused my visa during the onboarding, a bit surprising

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                                      My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have a openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

                                      So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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                                      Silly question but isn’t using a VPS the exact opposite of “self hosted”?

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                                        Silly question but isn’t using a VPS the exact opposite of “self hosted”?

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                                        For me, self-hosting is about staying in control over your software and data, so I think hosting in a VPS still fits the bill, even if it isn't the way most people go about it

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                                          Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.

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                                          Their free tiers look nice, but I've read that your server must stay above X% CPU usage average to prevent deletion, is that true?

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