I want to get a new VPS. It’ll mostly be used to host lightweight Docker images, and reverse proxying through Caddy. So, decent CPU and fast network speeds are the main things I need.

I have a cheap VPS with RackNerd. It’s fine, but only has a single CPU core, which gets overwhelmed if multiple connections are trying to pull stuff from some service. So, I guess having multiple cores is a requirement as well.

I want to spend around $5/month, but willing to go a little higher if it’s worth it. Any suggestions are appreciated.

P.S. I’m based in US and would prefer something in here for lower latency.

Update: Hetzner’s CX22 IPV6 only plan seems to be very good in terms of price-performance ratio. But the servers are in Europe. I’m planning to try it out for a while and see how the latency is. It’s great that they don’t lock you in with yearly plans.

    • ForesterEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      All I will say is that company has issues. Make sure you have the full backup of whatever data you put there.

      • Matt The HorwoodEnglish
        40·
        4 months ago

        That is true of any hosting provider, I have backups backblaze.

        • faercolEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          That’s good, because otherwise your data might end in a blaze.

          (Totally not speaking from experience)

      • ShadowEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        If you need support outside of business hours, you’re fucked.

        Friend had a network misconfig on their side take his server out on Friday night and they didn’t fix it until Monday.

        • Matt The HorwoodEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          That’s just like Aws, you pay for better and longer support. But they don’t make it clear support is only 9-5