I have been using Hetzner for a while for my personal projects https://www.hetzner.com/cloud They have reasonable prices and I had no complains on them
I recently found out that a "client" of mine (not really a client, just some people I did a favor to) had a forgotten machine with more than 3 years of uptime on Hetzner. That's quite the achievement!
Edit: I might add, serving a Wordpress website, still working, unhacked despite minimal configuration. We only found out because MySQL crashed and the machine had to be rebooted.
Also using Hetzner, can't complain and the pricing is good.
Came here to say the same. Hetzner gives good services for the price. My experience with the VPS is that I set it once and it just works with 1.5 year of uptime now. What I really love is that if you need bigger storage but not necessarily fast, you can get storage box for like €4 per 1TB and connect it to your machine with CIFS/SFTP/WebDAV. It works perfectly for my Nextcloud files, while everything else is on fast SSD.
Worth mentioning it makes sense the best if you're in Europe. Not so much if you're far away from Germany/Finland and want to have lowest latency possible
I am also using Hetzner Cloud. Pretty satisfied so far. They have reasonable prices for their products. Also, no complaints.
When it comes to raw performance, DigitalOcean seems to be slightly better, but also much more expensive.
I think where you are (country) is kinda relevant?
Linode and Vultr are both cloud providers outside the big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) that are a fair bit less expensive and have a range of instance types you can spin up, plus custom block storage services - they have a few regions to pick from so you can often get one with a low ping to you.
If you want cheaper than that, and are okay with small providers who might not always be as reliable, try something like Lowendbox and check the listings there.
I'm in Europe. Been using Vultr, it's good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that's actually in my country.
Hetzner was good when I used it a year ago.
Oci free tier?
I probably can't help you since I assume you are not from the same country as me. I would recommend that you use a more or less local service, but in order for us to give good recommendations, you will probably have to tell us where you are located.
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edit: wack, this comment showed up in one of my threads I created so I was super confused. disregard lol
I've been using netcup for years
I haven't seen better prices elsewhere, and I have no concerns regarding quality - settings, descriptions, or functionality
In germany, netcup has a quite good price/performance ratio
Have had really good experiences with them as well, no real uptime issues on top of the mentioned good price/performance ratio.
I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they've never failed me.
I host some personal stuff on a DigitalOcean for about a decade now and am quite satisfied. Their tooling is lovely, their reliability is excellent, and their prices are "ok." (Their additional block storage in particular tends a little expensive.)
Always click around for specials, you can find smaller providers that will be super cheap but have maybe not as great tooling or reliability, several of the medium sized ones like DO, Linode (now part of Akamai), and Vultr usually have a "first month or two/first couple hundred dollars of use free" type new user promotion (Hetzner goes on this size/sophistication class but doesn't usually run that kind of promo. They also trend a little cheaper).
IMO plumbing the big cloud infra systems like AWS for small projects is usually only worthwhile if you're either already super in to their tooling, or doing it for practice. Exceptions for certian known intermittent or bursty workloads because the flow for cheap cold storage and/or temporarily scaling up is better on those than the VPS style setups.
I'm using the free tier of oracle for a Minecraft server and for something free it's really powerful (4 ocpus and 16Gb ram) although I think it might get revoked if the VPs is not used enough and I haven't touched other things than ssh and serving minecraft
4 cpus and 16gb ram for free? sounds too good to be true.
I use https://1984.hosting/, they're pretty good and reasonably priced (you could find cheaper if you looked around, but I just like their policies better)
I've been enjoying CyberGhost. It's cheap (I paid a reasonable fee for 3 years) and you can use it on 7 devices.
"VPS" not "VPN".
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