Re:OVH is down along with its status page
by jeroenhd on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:26AM
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I'm using cheap Contabo servers and they've been surprisingly reliable for the price they ask. Their €5 offering (excluding VAT) comes with 4 cores, 8GiB of RAM and either 50GiB of NVME storage or 200GiB "ssd" storage. That's a lot better than anything I can find elsewhere.
The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case.
If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.
The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case.
If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.