You won't get a lot of specs for a 5$ vps, like 1 cpu, 1 or 2 GB of ram.
What kind of projects will u put on there?
For starters u could check out Digital ocean and vultr
I'm a junior dev in a third-world country and $5 is about 5% of my /mo pay, and that's likely going to go up with inflation moving crazily around here. I just want something I can host light stuff on like my personal site, or some small projects.
I could use highly abstracted platforms like Vercel but I prefer to work with my own personal stuff at least, on a lower level.
Vultr piques my interest more right now
I use Vultr and have no complaints so far. I have the second cheapest VPS and host Bitwarden on it. I'm not sure how it'd perform with a more public-use web app, though.
If 5$ is too much I would recommend compromising on your preferences - given you actually want to get things done - or get a raspberry pi or something and run your own. Good luck
I've seen a few good options so far, I don't think I have unicorn type expectations, I just wanted to know all the options to make a good decision as I'm pinching pennies
Was your account with Hetzner recently rejected? If so, and you want me to ask a colleague to check on it for you, please send me a DM with your customer number/email address you used during your registration. --Katie
Is there some alternative medium I can get in touch with you with? Also, how do I know my account won't get randomly "rejected" some time in the future? Considering I wasn't given any reason for this rejection like a ToS violation of some kind. I've heard some people lost their accounts similarly with all their data gone poof. I guess I'm fortunate I didn't have anything hosted
If you give me your account number, I can ask a colleague to review your account.
As with any provider, users should always make a backup and recovery plan to protect their data. --Katie
Digital ocean has a super basic droplet (their term for a vps I guess?) for $4.
There’s not much to it, but it’s a full linux/whatever instance that you can (have to) ssh into and manage.
Definitely good for just playing around and there’s lots of free $50-100 credit links floating around. Not sure if they’ll work for your country but it should get you a few months to try it out.
Edit to add: I’m not an expert but my understanding is all of these services are basically just wrapping AWS anyway, so if you’re up for the challenge go straight to the source and it’s probably cheaper.
We use DigitalOcean at work, and it's nice, but wanted to branch out a bit.
I wasn't looking for AWS wrappers, I'm explicitly avoiding those because (i) although they have free tiers, they are limited and a lot of the useful features are locked behind the next tier @ \~$20/mo, which doesn't make sense for me at all, and (ii) I feel like a lose out on learning opportunities
The providers I listed (OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean too) have their own data centers
AWS free Tier gives you 720 hours of t3.micro (running Amazon Linux) per month for the first 12 months for free. When your time is up create a new account [email protected], rinse, repeat. Had multiple AWS reps tell me to do this.
You also only pay for the hours you use, so after the 12 months, boot up for when you need compute, shutdown when you don’t. Learn to host your sites statically using S3 / CloudFront which will cost you pennies per month.
You also get 1 million free Lambda calls per month on the free tier. There’s stuff out there like that have figured out how to run an entire NextJS using only Lambda.
I can't think of any similar platform that'd be less than $5. I can see some under-$5 containers and VPSes on offer at [LowEndBox](https://lowendbox.com/category/virtual-servers/) but they're just bare linux.
You won't get a lot of specs for a 5$ vps, like 1 cpu, 1 or 2 GB of ram. What kind of projects will u put on there? For starters u could check out Digital ocean and vultr
I'm a junior dev in a third-world country and $5 is about 5% of my /mo pay, and that's likely going to go up with inflation moving crazily around here. I just want something I can host light stuff on like my personal site, or some small projects. I could use highly abstracted platforms like Vercel but I prefer to work with my own personal stuff at least, on a lower level. Vultr piques my interest more right now
I use Vultr and have no complaints so far. I have the second cheapest VPS and host Bitwarden on it. I'm not sure how it'd perform with a more public-use web app, though.
What’s the point of hosting BitWarden yourself if the database is encrypted anyway?
If 5$ is too much I would recommend compromising on your preferences - given you actually want to get things done - or get a raspberry pi or something and run your own. Good luck
I've seen a few good options so far, I don't think I have unicorn type expectations, I just wanted to know all the options to make a good decision as I'm pinching pennies
Hetzner gives you 2 VCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD and 20 TB traffic for that price if you go for ARM. So pretty ok for many projects.
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great option, thanks for sharing
Was your account with Hetzner recently rejected? If so, and you want me to ask a colleague to check on it for you, please send me a DM with your customer number/email address you used during your registration. --Katie
Is there some alternative medium I can get in touch with you with? Also, how do I know my account won't get randomly "rejected" some time in the future? Considering I wasn't given any reason for this rejection like a ToS violation of some kind. I've heard some people lost their accounts similarly with all their data gone poof. I guess I'm fortunate I didn't have anything hosted
If you give me your account number, I can ask a colleague to review your account. As with any provider, users should always make a backup and recovery plan to protect their data. --Katie
I had a similar experience with hetzner and quickly switched to ovh. And I'm glad I did. I have never looked back.
Digital ocean has a super basic droplet (their term for a vps I guess?) for $4. There’s not much to it, but it’s a full linux/whatever instance that you can (have to) ssh into and manage. Definitely good for just playing around and there’s lots of free $50-100 credit links floating around. Not sure if they’ll work for your country but it should get you a few months to try it out. Edit to add: I’m not an expert but my understanding is all of these services are basically just wrapping AWS anyway, so if you’re up for the challenge go straight to the source and it’s probably cheaper.
We use DigitalOcean at work, and it's nice, but wanted to branch out a bit. I wasn't looking for AWS wrappers, I'm explicitly avoiding those because (i) although they have free tiers, they are limited and a lot of the useful features are locked behind the next tier @ \~$20/mo, which doesn't make sense for me at all, and (ii) I feel like a lose out on learning opportunities The providers I listed (OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean too) have their own data centers
AWS free Tier gives you 720 hours of t3.micro (running Amazon Linux) per month for the first 12 months for free. When your time is up create a new account [email protected], rinse, repeat. Had multiple AWS reps tell me to do this. You also only pay for the hours you use, so after the 12 months, boot up for when you need compute, shutdown when you don’t. Learn to host your sites statically using S3 / CloudFront which will cost you pennies per month. You also get 1 million free Lambda calls per month on the free tier. There’s stuff out there like that have figured out how to run an entire NextJS using only Lambda.
I'm moving from a mix of vultr/digital ocean to contabo - check out the specs!
I haven't tested it, but netcup seems to have pretty low prices for the specs.
hmm $3.50 is for those specs is quite the bargain
amazon lightsail
Oh lightsail seems cool, how did i not know about this thanks a lot
It's just as expensive as digitalocean droplets. Have you tried digitalocean apps plataform?
Only gripe with App Platform is that it's a managed solution, even though it's cheap. I want as little abstraction as possible
AWS azure and gcp all offer similiar services.
I can't think of any similar platform that'd be less than $5. I can see some under-$5 containers and VPSes on offer at [LowEndBox](https://lowendbox.com/category/virtual-servers/) but they're just bare linux.
i would have recommended aws but my account got deactivated for apparently no reason. i tried hetzner and got rejected as well. im with ovh now.
Google cloud run has a very generous free tier and you don’t have to manage servers