Beginner Question - Hetzner or any cheaper VPS for a start

[Ziitoo]

Please help me with a cheaper linux vps with docker support .

I am not sure if my forum will get visitors or not , I am just starting to see if I can scale . so going for a $30 per month server is not possible for me , so I am thinking to start from the very basic .

please please suggest me good vps for starting .

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

@Ziitoo

please please suggest me good vps for starting .

I would consider individual suggestions for cheap and reliable hosting outside the scope of this website.

You will find some information about minimal requirements to run docker in this thread:

Clarification needed on memory requirements for Docker install

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[Moin]

Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

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