I currently use a Droplet from DigitalOcean which gives me 1 gb of RAM, 25 gb of storage and a bandwidth limit of 1 TB which is priced at 6 dollars per month, I think this might be a good offer, but I also think I’m overpaying because the only thing that I use from that is Wireguard to get around CGNAT at my home (which I could already do with Zerotier or Tailscale, so I don’t always use it).

I do have a couple of docker containers as well, but the most important one being Pi-Hole is only used along with WG, I also expose some services to the internet, like Overseerr, Plex (only to 1 user) and most recently this, https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all

Keeping within what DO already offers me would be nice, especially the bandwidth, which I some months got past of it because I opened the torrent port to seed more… I stopped when a DO letter arrived which is amusing because my country could not care less about torrenting. 🤣

I tried to go with the cheapest option ever (free) oracle cloud, but they never accepted any of my credit or debit cards nor they cared about it lol.

I don’t think I’m a power user by any means, so please, if you have a better offer do tell, or maybe that price is fair for my usage?

EDIT: forgot to add that a public IPv4 address is a must, because you know, the CGNAT.

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    It’s not the cheapest option on here, but Hetzner Cloud has some pretty good servers. I think their least expensive VPS is about $3.60 a month and comes with 4GB of ram and 40GB storage.

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      Same here, 2 instances, 1 in Germany, 1 in Finland. Both small vps’es (one smallest, 1 1 size bigger) work like a charm now I added swap.

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    Contabo and NetCup are really cheap. But only if you use their shared VPS option. If you are lucky the CPU steal is low.

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        The CPU steal time is the time the virtual core is waiting for the physical core. That means a VM is waiting for the hypervisor until it shifts CPU time to the VM again. More virtual cores sitting on a physical core means higher CPU steal. And higher CPU steal means bad performance because the hoster is allocating more virtual cores on a physical core that it can manage.

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        Presumably they mean that the CPU resources are over-provisioned, meaning that the virtual CPUs allocated to VMs have to share a smaller pool of physical CPUs. If the VMs have a lot of idle time, this can work well, but if your VM suddenly needs more CPU, the processes on your VM might need to wait for a physical CPU, as physical CPU cycles that would normally be available to you have been “stolen away” by processes running on other VMs.

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    I use a IONOS vps from the XS tier for your exact usecase! It’s only 1€/month and comes with 1 vcore, 1GB RAM and 10 GB SSD storage. Connection is fast too (400 MBit/s+) and data transfer is free (fair use). It comes with one public IPv4 adress.

    IONOS is the hosting and cloud division of 1&1, a large ISP here in Germany. Super reliable and zero issues for over 3 years of continous use! I had my fair share of problems with smaller and somewhat dubious hosters before, so now I stick to the established ones.

    They have datacentres in the US & Spain too, btw. You can also choose OVH (big french hoster) with locations in Germany, France, Canada etc., but they were more expensive last time I checked.

    The IONOS management website is great too. They have free snapshots, paid backups, (web) KVM access and a configurable firewall.

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        Oh my goodness (obviously im super opinionated on this) never use safari, its stoopeed. Only use Firefox, Chrome or even … Edge. Not sure if that will help you, but safari is gross.

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          Sadly it is the most optimized one for macOS, so in here is a necessity, but I just found this happen on Chrome too so I’ll be damned.

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            Darn im sorry. But also I never use safari on my mac. I have a mac book pro for work as a software engineer. we only use the ones I showed you. (again sorry i super passionately hate safari)

            Good luck on your search for a VPS though! Oh yeah my friend texted me 2 sites and I chose servarica.com but the other one he suggested is Contabo! https://contabo.com/en/vps/

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    @kratoz29 @selfhosted You cannot go much cheaper from $6 per month… there’s just not that far down to go. You can save maybe another $3 per month. There’s a $3.50/mo plan on Vultr. I have an OVHcloud VPS that cost $100 for 2 years but that was some special promotional deal.

    I also stumbled across this one that is $3.40/month (but the $5/month is a much better deal, with 4GB of RAM) but I don’t know anything about this hosting provider so it could just as well be a scam: https://bill.alexhost.com/cart/moldova/

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    I use vultr for the same and the same price.
    It has a cheaper option but it’s with slower CPU and HDD instead of SSD.

    And actually I pay $1 more for 40GB of block storage for some archiving of sites I want to keep.

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      I honestly don’t think I’m getting the perks of SSD… but maybe I am and never realized lol.

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      I’m still on Linode and have been for over a decade. Just very sad to have seen them lose their independence after selling to Akamai. Prices went up immediately and the whole “family of sysadmins working for sysadmins” feeling was gone.

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        FWIW, I haven’t seen a similar change from Ramnode after they sold to InMotion. They still seem quite good, and I’m picky. A bit more info on my experience (plus my affiliate code) upthread.

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    I rent from Contabo. They rent out Proxmox VMs. 6 Euro/month for 4 cores ( E5-2630 v4 in my case), 8GBs of RAM, 200GB SSD and I think 200Mbit connection

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    Hey I have cgnat too and am looking to implement my own wireguard vpn. Can u please post some guide how to do it with a vps?