Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers?

Posted by mhlakhani on Saturday December 11, 2010 @01:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Don't need anything too fancy, just something that has decent uptime and is enough to run a Wordpress site and a mail server. Budget hosts are preferred, as my budget is tight.

I had a look around, but some opinions might be helpful too. What would you guys suggest?

Stuff that I've checked:

http://quickweb.co.nz/vps-plans/supa-vps-plans.html (Seemed a little too good to be true)

http://prgmr.com/xen/ (The $8 plan, but I see no way to order)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by spooneybarger on Saturday December 11, 2010 @01:40PM (#1995362)

prgmr.com is based on availability. there are times when they have no space, so they dont allow you to order.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by mhlakhani on Saturday December 11, 2010 @02:25PM (#1995467)

Thanks for that, it wasn't mentioned anywhere. I think I can wait for like a month or so at maximum, so let's see.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by spooneybarger on Saturday December 11, 2010 @05:45PM (#1995830)

i'd email them and see. i know i was going to use them last year but they had no space for a couple months so i went w/ something else.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by spooneybarger on Saturday December 11, 2010 @05:46PM (#1995833)

btw, whoever downvoted me for providing basic info; thanks- you're a gem.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by corin_ on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:51PM (#1997822)

This topic is always coming up on HN, and generally the two favourites are www.slicehost.com and www.linode.com. (Personally I've used them both and would support both, though my choice is currently Linode due to availability of UK servers.)

A few example previous topics:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432386

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496630

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658161

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by mhlakhani on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:55PM (#1997986)

I manage a Linode for someone else, and so far it's been great. For personal use I'd rather use something cheaper though, budget's a bit tight. Thanks anyhow for the great links!

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by aonic on Saturday December 11, 2010 @08:39PM (#1996146)

How about an EC2 micro (600MB ram) reserved instance? $54 one-time fee for a year (~$4.5/m), then .007 an hour (~$5/m). Comes out to a around $10-12/m depending on bandwidth usage and other AWS usage factors.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by mhlakhani on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:50AM (#1996899)

Hmm. Their free usage tier might be interesting as well, for a year at least. But you have to take bandwidth usage into account, other VPS providers seem to give much more bang for the buck there.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by il on Saturday December 11, 2010 @05:40PM (#1995816)

Check lowendbox.com

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by mhlakhani on Sunday December 12, 2010 @04:39AM (#1996846)

Thanks! I'm having a look at this right now.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by dtwwtd on Sunday December 12, 2010 @01:41AM (#1996646)

I'm on Rizie and couldn't be happier, VPS service starts at $4/month.

http://rizie.com

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by mhlakhani on Sunday December 12, 2010 @04:38AM (#1996843)

This looks promising, do their VPS plans have full root access?

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by dtwwtd on Sunday December 12, 2010 @12:26PM (#1997393)

Yes, they provide a few choices of Linux distro and then you get full access to everything.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by kapilkaisare on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:38PM (#1997784)

IntoVPS (http://intovps.com)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap VPS Providers? by czcar on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:22AM (#1996762)

webbynode.com is pretty cheap, and fantastic for deployment etc.,

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