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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by morganherlocker on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:39AM (#7603840)
I use a tiny VPS provider that is actually $20/yr. For sites that get a couple thousand hits per month it is perfect. Although I do not see it as a requirement in this price range, the uptime has been on par with the big names (I have known of one 5 hour outage in the 3 years I have been using it). Even DO's $5/mo now seems a bit steep now for the "I just had a random idea" type thing.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by rschmitty on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:45AM (#7603879)
Care to share the provider you are using?
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by dewey on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:54AM (#7603932)
There are always great offers on http://lowendbox.com/ - I'm very happy with the small KVM offers edis.at is offering.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by highstep on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:08PM (#7606779)
Beware of super cheap VPS providers. A couple years ago I got burned by a provider called VBOX that was highly recommended on lowendbox.com. At first the service was ok, but a few months later my server and VBOX business were completely unresponsive.

Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by jon-wood on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:32AM (#7608570)
So long as you have deployment automated, and frequent backups, that shouldn't be a huge issue. One of the many advantages of not having to manually deploy a new box is being able to rapidly get off a bad provider.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by sergiotapia on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:12AM (#7604067)
Ramnode is fantastic and cheap.

http://www.ramnode.com

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by lazylizard on Friday April 18, 2014 @04:21PM (#7611097)
vpsdime is crazy cheap...
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by notastartup on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:32AM (#7604204)
$2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by bearbin on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:41PM (#7606177)
Debian minimal, with NGINX or some other light HTTP is easy on even 64 megs. On 128, you can do stuff like PHP and you can run whatever efficient web stuff you like. The web is light, if you're efficient about it.

As an aside, one of my friends has a 100 meg free VPS from one of the terrible free vps providers. He has managed to squeeze a Minecraft server on, and that can hold about 2 or 3 players! (apart from the terrible network, cpu and uptime)

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by nitrogen on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:52PM (#7604730)
You can run a mostly static site on 64.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by neckro23 on Friday April 18, 2014 @04:22AM (#7608435)
It isn't (I have one, a whole $15/year due to some ridiculous sale some months ago). Consider that it's userspace only, so kernel doesn't count. I'm running a (light-duty) nodejs app, nginx to proxy it, tmux, and two irssi instances on mine right now, with memory to spare. Light PHP works fine too (haven't tried anything heavier).

A database server or similar wouldn't work, of course.

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by insertnickname on Friday April 18, 2014 @01:09PM (#7610067)
If you pay $2/month, you're a sucker; they've got lots of coupons (like the seemingly permanent 25 % discount on their website. If you look a bit further, you'll find even better discounts).
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by wcfields on Thursday April 17, 2014 @04:00PM (#7605929)
I use INIZ[1] 1GB for only $25 a year from a lowendbox special[2]. I don't use it for much so I can't speak with quality/uptime/anything beyond testing/experimentation.

  1GB-YEARLY
  3 vCores
  1GB RAM
  512MB vSwap
  50GB RAID10 Disk
  1TB Outbound BW
  1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6
  OpenVZ/SolusVM
[1] http://iniz.com/

[2] http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-...

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by morganherlocker on Saturday April 19, 2014 @12:34PM (#7613830)
OP here. I use Hostigation[1]. I know some people are concerned about many of the low end providers, but in this case:

1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble!

2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me.

[1] https://hostigation.com/

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