• LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip
    4·
    5 months ago

    Perhaps you’d like DeluxHost.

    You can pay with crypto (I never tried it).

    And they use to offer but only through this website.

    • 2 cores
    • 8 GB Ram
    • 80 GB disk
    • 10 gbps network (symmetrical)
    • “fair-use” bandwidth (15 TB/month)
    • a static IPv4 address
    • a /64 static IPv6 block
    • located in Europe

    For 18 Euros per year.

    Now, to set some expectations. For 18 EUR per YEAR:

    1. You’re NOT getting 99.999% uptime
    2. That said, they are pretty reliable (especially as a hobbist platform)
    3. For this price point, you’re not getting blazing fast hardware.
    4. The reliability does depend a lot on your neighbors
    5. The biggest problem I’ve had is with IO (and high/unusable IO-waits). I’ve had IO operations blocked for 5 minutes.
    6. However, their Support is really helpful, if you’re not a jerk nor expecting 99.999% uptime with SLA’s. And you can provide timestamps when issues occur, they will go out of their way to try to improve the situation.
    7. I did have issues with their network 6 months ago, but they did some migrations and I haven’t noticed any issues.
    8. You will want to look at their Fair-use document, to see what you’re allowed and not allowed to do with your bandwidth.

    That said, I’m very satisfied with them… but, at this price point, I won’t be surprised if they “disappear in a year”.

    When I look at what other VPS companies are offering for 18 Eur: I feel I’m getting a much better value from DeluxHost.

    edit: formatting and words

    • renlok@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Those are crazy prices I can’t believe they can continue operating at those prices for long.

      • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
        1·
        5 months ago

        Bad, when it comes to privacy. They have a pretty heavy internal advertisenent campaign, trying to sell you stuff you don’t need and offers based on your usage, it’s a bit disgusting, really.

    • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Hetzner is quite infamous for suddenly terminating people’s service and forcing customers to provide copies of their ID to get running again. They’re a great provider for many things but fall flat when it comes to privacy.

      • Bricked@feddit.org
        2·
        5 months ago

        True, I almost forgot that I had to give them my ID. That’s pretty bad for your own privacy, but other than that Germany has better privacy laws than most other countries

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    5 months ago

    It’s a weird pick, but I recommend https://bloom.host/.

    They’re gaming-focused, but their Ryzen vps boxes are really performant. Very helpful and competent support, great uptime and comms, solid tooling and monitoring.

    You can pay with a virtual card no problem. Never had issues getting blocked when behind VPN either.

  • entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    5 months ago

    I use 1984.hosting for myself.

    They even have a page dedicated to litigation.

    ~$10.00/month.

    I built a custom firewall - on gitlab if ya want - it enhances the privacy and anti-tracking I want for myself without locking myself out of everything.