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Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by okasaki on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:33AM (#33491142)
> $6 will get you 4 cores, 8GB of RAM and 200GB of storage.

Wow, where do you get that?

Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by pantalaimon on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:53AM (#33491251)
Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by jeroenhd on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:28PM (#33498767)
Contabo.com. I use two of their servers to self-host some stuff and so far they've been quite stable. There are other cheap providers but they're often of questionable reliability. Luckily you can pay monthly rather than yearly like many other budget VPS providers, which convinced me to try them out back in the day.
Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by KronisLV on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:36AM (#33504095)
Some of the more dependable options for affordable servers, in my experience:

  - https://contabo.com/en/vps/ (they used to have a reputation for overprovisioning, but stable service)
  - https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (they asked me for my ID photos for verification, but otherwise one of the better options)
  - https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link, I use them currently for all of my long term hosting)
Another commenter suggested lowendbox, which is a good option for scoping out offers, but sometimes companies just take the money and run off (as happened to me once personally), generally look at whether the company that you want to become a client of has been around for a while and hasn't recently changed hands.