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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by raybb on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:13AM (#34676256)
Does anyone have tips for managing/monitoring a few cheap VPS? I have one that I pay $4 a year for and only use it as a Syncthing middle between my laptop and phone. I also have a few other small ones that I use for single purposes. However, I don't have a good way to see how much storage is on each VPS and the CPU utilization without sshing into them to check.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by zer0tonin on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:19AM (#34676297)
I would use telegraf (https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf) to gather the metrics you want from your servers. It has built-in functions to get metrics like disk usage, cpu, etc...

From there I would export those metrics to a grafana+influxdb setup. But honestly this is because that's what I'm used to professionally. There might be simpler solutions around.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by megadeth on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:22AM (#34676319)
Highly recommend https://hetrixtools.com.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by discordance on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:18AM (#34676283)
https://github.com/MichaelBelgium/VPS-Monitor
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by kenniskrag on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:17AM (#34676278)
I use cockpit but maybe too much:

https://cockpit-project.org/running

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by MonkeyClub on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:57AM (#34676646)
I use cockpit widely as well. I too was initially concerned that it may be an overkill as well, but it solves so many more administrative problems than just metrics, that I’ve found it’s worth the few extra resources used.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by susadmin on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:18AM (#34676280)
I have heard Nagios works well for monitoring.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by hu3 on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:20AM (#34676303)
where can I get a VPS for $4/year?

I could use one for things like remote cronjobs.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by defrost on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:28AM (#34676372)
https://cron-job.org/en/faq/

   How much is the service of cron-job.org?
   Our service is entirely free of charge.
( Some resource limits apply )
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by gl-prod on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:52AM (#34676596)
How come its free?
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by newaccount74 on Monday February 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#34679839)
Some people like helping others even if there's nothing in it for them. Like icanhazip.com
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by hu3 on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:53AM (#34676606)
I use them and they are great. But I need longer timeout settings.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by nbk_2000 on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:45AM (#34676520)
You can find Frantech servers for as little as $3.50/year here:

https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=3460

This is the parent company of BuyVM. They have a very good reputation, but their stock goes up and down throughout the month. If you want a specific data-center location, wait until the first of the month when stock replenishes.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by hoppyhoppy2 on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:50AM (#34676572)
The servers at this affiliate link start at $3.50/month. Am I missing something? What service is $3.50/year?
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by efreak on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:15AM (#34691294)
Not sure about $3.5/year, but Hosteon has servers at $16/yr (openvz) and $21/yr. Small companies on LEB have yearly prices occasionally, and frequently they never disable the sign up page for them, for example:

$1/month list: https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by ddtaylor on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:48AM (#34676563)
Vultr
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by hereforphone on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:25AM (#34677655)
As I said above I had a bad customer service experience with them. I've used a lot of hosting providers and Vultr was the most ghetto-feeling by far. Back to Digital Ocean for me, or if they stop hosting custom images, I'll try and find another
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by raybb on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:56AM (#34676631)
I bought it from VirMach on Cyber Monday back in 2017. It was a pretty good deal and they've stuck to it. I've barely used the box for anything over the years but it's nice to have.

I think you'll still find deals like this on lowendbox occasionally.

Original deal: https://lowendbox.com/blog/cyber-monday-virmach-vps-deals-as...

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by dm on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:49AM (#34676568)
If you're happy not having a home-grown open source solution, New Relic is essentially free if you don't have many servers and turn off extended metrics. If you start adding in more integrations, it's gonna cost you, but for basic monitoring and nice graphs hosted externally from your systems itself, it works nicely.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by t_sawyer on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:25AM (#34678690)
https://github.com/netdata/netdata
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by m-o11y on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:59PM (#34683403)
https://opsverse.io/observenow-observability/ ...As close to free as possible since the cost is primarily driven by amount of ingestion. Works great for small setups with scope to grow over time!

Disclaimer: I work there

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