Keep an eye out for GreenCloudVPS’ 10th birthday sale, which should be starting later this month (edit: I think it may actually be in October). They’ll have a post on LowEndTalk about it. Last year they had an offer with 9 cores, 9GB RAM, 99GB NVMe disk space, for US$99 every three years ($33/year). My Lemmy server is running on one of them!

In the meantime, they have some good deals here: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-KVM-sale. Their cheapest one is $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB NVMe disk space on a 10Gbps network.

Also take a look at RackNerd and HostHatch when they have sales. RackNerd’s 4th July sale prices are still available: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186994/boom-boom-4th-of-july-deals-come-come-deals-freebies-by-racknerd/p1

I personally prefer GreenCloudVPS, but Hosthatch have a bunch of useful features like a private VLAN between all your VPSes in the same location. GreenCloudVPS have the best support out of the three. All three have much better pricing than the “big” providers like Vultr, Linode, DigitalOcean, etc. Those big providers spend a lot on advertising and have more markup than the less-well-known providers.

I am not affiliated with any of these companies; I’m just a user of all of them. :)

Hetzner or Netcup

I like Hetzners bandwidth limit of 20TB outbound and the per minute billing. The specs on their VPS are also decent in my mind.

Note that Hetzner can be a bit of a pain to open an account. They’re picky about verifying identity.

I have used a bunch of companies and theyre all good enough. Here are ones that stood out to me.

vultr.com because they offer a lot of capabilities in their admin console. Like uploading a custom iso for an os they dont already have listed.

Fdcservers, unmetered service but the connection isnt gig.

Ovh has very competitive pricing and cloud like capabilites.

Over the years I have used a number of providers. Below is my recollection / mental notes.

Digital Ocean - They used to be one of my favorite ones until they dropped support for FreeBSD. For the most part they seem stable, their interface is clean and easy to use and they have a good range of offerings.

Vultr They had a time when they had reliability issues so I moved away from them for some time. Some months ago came back to try them when Digital Ocean dropped their FreeBSD support. So far have had zero issues.

Lunanode This is a smaller company and they have a, very, limited number of datacenters. Competitive pricing so if you are ok with their data centers you can potentially save some money. However, they also have a smaller number of products available.

OVH Everything about OVH is confusing. They have multiple sites and depending where you live you are supposed to use one or the other. They also own a number of other brands (companies that they bought and now is just a brand under OVH) which adds to the confusion. IThey have physical machines and VMs. I only use them for physical since I much prefer Vultr or DigitalOcean interfaces for VMs.

For physical machines one has to be even more careful as you would have to deal with any potential hardware failures. If you have a VM and the host has issues they can just move the VM. If you have a physical machine and it has issues, you will have bigger down time than if you were using VMs unless you have multiple physical machines. The main point of using physical machines at OVH is pricing.

Just as an example of pricing for OVH… A digitalocean VM with 16GB of RAM and 8 cores is $96. At OVH they currently have an “end of summer” deal with a 8 cores, 2× 2TB HDD SATA, 16GB RAM for $22. Similar setup with SSD instead for about same price. Some of those “deals” are older machines, but depending on your needs that may be ok.

Arpnetworks More expensive the DigitalOcean and Vultr with simpler interface and limited products… but they have pretty good FreeBSD support so that was an important factor to me, but their higher price may make it not worth for many / most… unless FreeBSD support matters. They also have better support as they are a smaller company. If I recall correctly it is a single data center in California.

I currently have a VPS with Contabo. I think their prices are good. They have normal VPSs for more compute power with nvme storage, and they also have what they call Storage VPS, which I assume uses SATA ssds but they give you more storage vs the other ones. I’d say give them a look

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