Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

As feedback, I’m using Contabo since a year with two servers and am all happy. They had real and friendly support at their smallest plan and manually lowered the tax rate for my location.

Plans same as mentioned on the op: Cloud VPS S (4 cores, 8GB, 50 GB NVMe or 200 GB SSD)
Price in Euro is actually just 4.99€ +tax

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Thanks, @itsbhanusharma. I edited the Digital Ocean entry. It’s a wiki, so anyone can make changes.

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Since September, Hetzner has increased its servers’ prices by about 10%.

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I just edited the post to reflect that. :slight_smile:

You’re welcome to change it if you aren’t a fan of the phrasing.

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How do you feel guys adding a column for “min billing duration”?
Some providers bill per month, others per hour…

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Hmm. Yeah. It’s pretty great that you can spin up a droplet and use it for hours and pay pennies. In practice, I almost never do that and I have tooling that makes it almost trivial (I do have to edit a text file and insert the droplet ip). I can do the work of creating a droplet with a standard install in about a minute (maybe three?).

I think that most Normal People aren’t affected much by whether it’s hourly or monthly, as the hard part is setting it up. If the minimum is 3 or 6 months then it might start to matter.

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Actually, I have a dev environment that I switch on and off during the month. I get billed less when it’s off but still pay for IP, storage etc. So paying by the minute is quite good for that particular purpose.

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Yes. And I should do more of turning mine off. But if the target audience for this topic is “self hosters” then I still say that they don’t care if it’s by the minute, hour, day, or even month. Now, if the target audience is developers . . .

So to me it seems like some unnecessary work to enter it, and perhaps maintain it, and adding another column to a slightly fussy markdown table also may have its challenges. If someone wants to do that, though, then it probably won’t hurt much. :slight_smile:

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I would like to add our hosting platform, stacklinux.com. Do I edit the WiKi to add it? Or just make the suggestion here?..

Specs/details:
(the cloud servers are custom configured from the kernel up)
6x 3.9GHz cores - always set to MAX clock speed (not by demand).
3GB RAM
25GB NVMe backed SSD storage
Price: $35.00
Build time < 5 Mins (tested)
Can click around a forum hosted by Stacklinux here:

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I’m pretty happy with Cloudcone, a small hosting company
The VPS is fine and the support hyper reactive.

*Initially, it was just for dev. And since there was a nice deal for their anniversary, I signed up. *
Don’t expect to see this price again :stuck_out_tongue:
Finally, I use it in production.
(I have a VPS at Virmach for the dev, but I don’t recommend them!)

4 vCPU Cores
2 GB RAM
59 GB RAID-10
Pure SSD Storage
6 TB Bandwidth at 1Gbps
1 x IPv4 address
3 x IPv6 addresses
Virtualization: KVM
$29.00/Year

VPS Benchmarks:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16588646
https://clbin.com/5dKFh

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