I am thinking of buying a VPS because I want to host some projects on it. I need it to be able to run Linux and must have a great amount of bandwidth (around ~150GB monthly). At least 2GB ram and 50GB Storage. What is your personal recommendation? And it would also be nice if it isn’t expensive.

I am somewhere around Germany.

Edit 1: Thanks to you all, I’ve decided to go with Hetzner as it was the best deal out of all and according to people recommending it, it has excellent uptime.

    • juandemarco@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I recently found out that a “client” of mine (not really a client, just some people I did a favor to) had a forgotten machine with more than 3 years of uptime on Hetzner. That’s quite the achievement!

      Edit: I might add, serving a Wordpress website, still working, unhacked despite minimal configuration. We only found out because MySQL crashed and the machine had to be rebooted.

    • eight_byte@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I am also using Hetzner Cloud. Pretty satisfied so far. They have reasonable prices for their products. Also, no complaints.

      When it comes to raw performance, DigitalOcean seems to be slightly better, but also much more expensive.

    • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Came here to say the same. Hetzner gives good services for the price. My experience with the VPS is that I set it once and it just works with 1.5 year of uptime now. What I really love is that if you need bigger storage but not necessarily fast, you can get storage box for like €4 per 1TB and connect it to your machine with CIFS/SFTP/WebDAV. It works perfectly for my Nextcloud files, while everything else is on fast SSD.

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Worth mentioning it makes sense the best if you’re in Europe. Not so much if you’re far away from Germany/Finland and want to have lowest latency possible

  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Linode and Vultr are both cloud providers outside the big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) that are a fair bit less expensive and have a range of instance types you can spin up, plus custom block storage services - they have a few regions to pick from so you can often get one with a low ping to you.

    If you want cheaper than that, and are okay with small providers who might not always be as reliable, try something like Lowendbox and check the listings there.

  • Skelectus@suppo.fi
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m in Europe. Been using Vultr, it’s good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that’s actually in my country.

  • aski3252@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I probably can’t help you since I assume you are not from the same country as me. I would recommend that you use a more or less local service, but in order for us to give good recommendations, you will probably have to tell us where you are located.

    • Jaluvshuskies@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      [deleted]

      edit: wack, this comment showed up in one of my threads I created so I was super confused. disregard lol

  • Trent@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they’ve never failed me.

  • Mininux@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’m using the free tier of oracle for a Minecraft server and for something free it’s really powerful (4 ocpus and 16Gb ram) although I think it might get revoked if the VPs is not used enough and I haven’t touched other things than ssh and serving minecraft

  • gballantineA
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s been a hot minute since I’ve used it, but Vultr had always been good when I used it in the past. I really like that they provided private networking for instances in the same datacenter, a feature which DigitalOcean did not provide.

    Their pricing isn’t the best but it’s not awful, and it was pretty reliable for the couple of web servers I hosted with it.

  • Essehm@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been enjoying CyberGhost. It’s cheap (I paid a reasonable fee for 3 years) and you can use it on 7 devices.