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Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have an openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it's not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've had a good experience with RamNode, and very little limitations in what I can do.

They used to be headquartered in Atlanta, GA (with servers in all major countries/cities) but were recently bought out by another slightly larger provider. I haven't had any negative experiences since the buy out.

https://ramnode.com/

I have 3 minecraft servers running on one VPS at RamNode (it's a dedicated server, not shared). One is vanilla, one is a heavy tech mod, and the other is a heavy RPG mod. People come and go all the time, no issues. $50/month, though. Note that minecraft is not the only service running on it. It gets very heavily utilized for many, many things.

RamNode will kick you in the ballsac if you try pirating with them, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@secret300 Ethernetservers.com

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've been happy with racknerd. They usually run specials that are pretty reasonable: https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

I did have one rather long outage of about 48 hours once. The host running my VPS had a nic fail. They got it fixed and it's been solid ever since.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I just swapped from ssdNodes to MassiveGRID and I'm pretty happy with them so far (I'm sure there are much better VPS hosts out there). They just extended the sale they posted on lownedboxes through the weekend, so if you pay for 3 years, you get a 4th for free and you also lock-in the pricing for after that 4 year period, too. This is the thread.

If you do decide to order (before Monday) make sure you sign up and make a post in the lowendbox forum thread to get your extra year.

The only real downside to them is they only offer 1Gbps connections for right now (they're upgrading so you can order multi-Gbps connections in the future), but I'm able to max out the connection: http://i.xno.dev/u/6ZM52h.png

These are the specs: http://i.xno.dev/u/qJeLjE.png And this is proof of the 4th year: http://i.xno.dev/u/0xN6Z0.png

So I ended up paying $141.28 for 4 years which is $2.94/mo. Very worth it, IMO considering the specs as something comparable on DigitalOcean is $48/mo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oooh this seems like a really good value

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's what I said. I liked ssdNodes too, but they're much more expensive. I generally troll around lowendbox every now and again for good deals and when I saw this one I checked it out and decided to take the plunge. I like them so far.

Disk read/writes are a little slow because they use ceph volumes for H/A storage, but there are tons of benchmarks in that lowendbox thread. I highly recommend you check them out before you order and make sure they'll be good enough for you. But if they are, should be a good value.

I have a dashboard running here for my VPS: https://dash.xno.dev/

It's running docker with a few services: http://i.xno.dev/u/aDsmTX.png along with a caddy-reverse proxy. Handles it really well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

welp... that's $200 gone. I'ma see if I can get a refund

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I forgot to warn you about that! I got the same thing and opened a ticket about it: http://i.xno.dev/u/B0C5Fe.png

It took about an hour for the VM to come online. haha, sorry.

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