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?

  • Kng@feddit.rocksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Just an FYI getting a vps or dedicated server that is fast enough for Minecraft modpacks is going to be fairly expensive. It might be cheaper to get shared hosting for the MC server and a separate vps for the docker stuff.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Or if you have reliable home internet, just get/reuse a small PC and host at home.

      But if you don’t have a ton of users, you can host on a pretty cheap VPS.

      • Kng@feddit.rocksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Also if you do go this route and are concerned about privacy and security you can get a cheap vps then setup a VPN (wireguard probably) on the vps and have your home server connect to that. Then you can forward the vps ports to the VPN IP of your home server. This means that you don’t need to have port forwarding or even a dedicated IP at home and users don’t get your home IP. Keep in mind you need a vps that is relatively close to your house to keep the latency down as this setup will add twice the latency between home and the vps to the connection.

    • biptoot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Second racknard. If you Google Black Friday special, you’ll find the page where you can order a VPS with four gigs of RAM for something like $50 a year. It’s not a 12-month special either, you can renew it year after year.

      I run docker containers there, a Red Dead redemption 2 server, etc. It’s really useful commodity server to have around,

      • r0bi@infosec.pubEnglish
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        4 months ago

        3rd racknerd – but I just use the cheapest KVM deal in the geographic region I need it in. About $10/yr for single core older Xeons with 768M-1G RAM. Still though I’ve been very happy with them.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Just a PSA, never ever EVER request deletion of an Oracle free tier if there is any possibility you might want one in the future.

      You can delete/remove instances or whatever as you desire, but you won’t be able to get a second free tier account even if the first is completely deleted.

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I got one. It’s just too slow for what I need and can’t do webrtc because of a hardware limitation.

    • skoell13@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Did you upgrade your account to a paid one? I’ve read that this might help to precent from being deleted. Even with a paid-as-you-go account you’re able to use the free tiers.

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        24gb memory and 4 OCPU . the CPU doesnt sound like much, but if its using the ampere back end and not the amd micro, the CPU performance scales up with demand (to a point).

        I have two containers running, one using 16gb memory and another using 4gb, they each have one cpu and they perform fine for what they do.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Their free tiers look nice, but I’ve read that your server must stay above X% CPU usage average to prevent deletion, is that true?

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Silly question but isn’t using a VPS the exact opposite of “self hosted”?

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Just tried massiveGRID and their VPS have massive issues. They randomly halt for a second to 5 seconds and just stops responding to any call. Sometime I randomly see a packet with 1000ms to 2000ms with no reason, while CPU usage is under 10% and the server is basically idling (on a simple ping).

      This shit happens every minute or so, it’s so annoying

      Avoid.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        This is mind-blowing to me. I’ve been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I’ve not had a single one.

        This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: https://x0.at/daqx.png

        The connection speed isn’t stellar by any means, certainly well below the advertised–but they’re shared VPS, so that’s really to be expected. My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I’m paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I’m okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.

        I’m looking hard for flaws but they’re no better, but no worse than any provider I’ve ever had. 🤷‍♂️