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.

  • KokeshEnglish
    50·
    4 months ago

    I know I’ll be told that it is a shit company, but Oracle free VPS works like a charm for me. Using it to circumvent CGNAT by running Wireguard on it

    • ambitiousslabEnglish
      40·
      4 months ago

      As a note of caution, I used Oracle’s free tier to run a personal Matrix server, and it got deleted without any advance warning after a few months. I migrated to another provider and haven’t had any issues for 2+ years now.

      • KokeshEnglish
        20·
        4 months ago

        I got notification from them that they will stop unused machine. I’ve just rebooted and didn’t get anything for a few months now

        • schizoEnglish
          30·
          4 months ago

          A big point of confusion that keeps happening in relation to OCI is that there’s actually two “tiers” of free, and one of the two is subject to resources vanishing.

          If you convert to a pay-as-you-go account, all that shit stops, and you’re treated as an actual customer while keeping all the free tier stuff.

          I suppose you could get hit with a surprise bill if you’re not careful and use things that have a free tier and then convert to billing (example: you exceed your object storage free amount), but if you don’t use anything outside of the compute resources, it’s just as good without the resource reclamation stuff.

          • KokeshEnglish
            20·
            4 months ago

            I think I’ve tried to switch to pay as you go, but they wanted to reserve $100+, so I said no. And didn’t have any bugging restarts or anything.

    • schizoEnglish
      30·
      4 months ago

      I’ll second that. Oracle sucks but they’ve given me thousands worth of free cloud shit over the last 3 years so I’m not displeased.

    • mojoaarEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago4 months ago

      +1 on OCI free tier (ARM) - works like a charm. No need to spend those $5 a month of what OP want’s to do.