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 an 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?

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I just swapped from ssdNodes to MassiveGRID and I’m pretty happy with them so far (I’m sure there are much better VPS hosts out there). They just extended the sale they posted on lownedboxes through the weekend, so if you pay for 3 years, you get a 4th for free and you also lock-in the pricing for after that 4 year period, too. This is the thread.

    If you do decide to order (before Monday) make sure you sign up and make a post in the lowendbox forum thread to get your extra year.

    The only real downside to them is they only offer 1Gbps connections for right now (they’re upgrading so you can order multi-Gbps connections in the future), but I’m able to max out the connection: http://i.xno.dev/u/6ZM52h.png

    These are the specs: http://i.xno.dev/u/qJeLjE.png And this is proof of the 4th year: http://i.xno.dev/u/0xN6Z0.png

    So I ended up paying $141.28 for 4 years which is $2.94/mo. Very worth it, IMO considering the specs as something comparable on DigitalOcean is $48/mo.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Ya, like I said. I jumped on them because of the price. The hardware isn’t the most powerful in the world, but to run my hosted services it’s been excellent so far. I’m super happy and I’m paying next to nothing which is great.

        Now my domain costs more than my hosting T__T

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

        I have a dashboard running here for my VPS: https://dash.xno.dev/

        It’s running docker with a few services: http://i.xno.dev/u/aDsmTX.png along with a caddy-reverse proxy. Handles it really well.