Highly Reliable VPS/"Cloud" server
Hi everyone!
I'm interested in a provider who offers extremely reliable & durable VPS/cloud servers. Here's what I'm looking for:
1 CPU (don't care what model assuming it's not total crap)
1-2 GB RAM
100 GB storage (with room to grow)
100 mbps up/down
400 GB outbound/month
3-5 TB inbound if metered.
Ideally, networked & replicated storage with an AFR < 0.1%, automated compute/instance failover and extremely solid network/power uptime > 99.99%.
Not performance sensitive - as long as its decent, I'll take it.
Budget is $20-40/month.
I've looked at the major public clouds which hit my reliability and price marks (Azure, IBM, Oracle especially), but I'm sure there's a lot of other great hosts out there, I'd love to try too.
Let's hear some offers!
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention. USA/NA is highly preferred.
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with that budget then stick with the them .. consider adding google.
Always think @Clouvider HA VPS is quite premium but sadly never used them before (Also because I missed a deal haha)
https://www.clouvider.com/cloud-vps/
Not as big as other cloud providers but they are decent enough.
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i think i will get heart attack next day if you paid for one hahahha lol j/k
Yeah, I've looked at them too. Unfortunately, no US location (yet), otherwise they'd fit the bill perfectly.
Forgot to mention that in initial post - I've amended it to add that.
There was an offer quite a while ago that could fit in my impulsive buying range... I asked Dom few times but dont think he wants it happens again
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Google is actually the one that's out of budget. LOL
Compute + storage would be ~ $20/m. Bandwidth @ standard rate is $40/m or so alone. I guess it's only a bit over, but there are much better options elsewhere
time flies so
you could check upcloud, they have 100% SLA iirc
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Can try OVH? https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/compare/
My SG VPS with them has been running for 3+ years with 100% uptime
(I don't know their SLA though, but based on my experience with them I am confident to use them for production)
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Thanks! That's on my short list too - we actually had a long chat with them when looking for a primary provider, though that dropped out. Have you had any experiences with them?
Thanks! Their pricing is unbeatable for what they offer (as a semi-big provider). Do you happen to know what their storage is backed by? I recall reading ceph somewhere, but that could just be their object storage.
OVH have great hw,specs,cp etc --- but support is almost 0.
So I've heard...Assuming no issues on their side, support (or lack of thereof) shouldn't be an issue, though I'd probably rather pay $10-20 more for someone to speak to if something does happen.
yep, pay $10-20 more - for support.
I have credits there so only use them hourly from time to time. couldn't afford long term usage though
what I can say is their performance is decent and network is pretty good. limited locations compared to vultr. their maxiops block storage should fit well for expansion.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I see! Yeah, that (performance, network, storage) was pretty much our experience too with the couple hundred dollars in credit they were kind enough to give us for some in-depth evaluation. We didn't get a chance to evaluate their reliability over a long term though, and I've been hard pressed to find any review about that actually addresses it. I'd spin up a VM and watch it over a few months, but I don't have that kind of timeline unfortunately
racknerd (my signature) so far after 5 months? 100% uptime
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NO RackNerd please thanks, I already have enough at OGF + I won't ever define it as highly reliable.
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i just had a few hours of network downtime days ago, so yeah definitely not 100% uptime.
good support, but not HA for sure.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
been solid in AMS for me lolz
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racknerd's really good for the price, but OP needs HA, that actually filters out most lowend providers.
otherwise i would have thrown letbox into the list as well with their block storage. 100% uptime for me in 2 years as far as i could see.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I appreciate the response! But, that's probably a bit far from what I'm looking for.
I know the above experience would be far from the only one about network outages/storage failures, though I wouldn't expect much more given the price
Based on my experience, I'd stick with Azure when such availability is needed. No "low-end" provider I've seen does the same sort of proactive live migrations without downtime.
If you step down a notch you might want to consider LunaNode. They at least let you provision from a block volume, and if I recall correctly they will automatically re-launch on an available node if a block-backed VPS goes down.
Can confirm this is the case, but OP wanted US.
We're on Clouviders network in the US, and Hetrix is showing 99.9998% uptime in NY, but we don't currently have network/replicated storage there.
I think I got one if it's the offer I'm thinking of.
what kinda offer was that?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I don't want to spoil the market so I will just PM you
Hint:
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wow. that was really one off.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Oh I don't remember that one?
I'm afraid Azure too is above your stated budget...
400GB of bandwidth alone is 35 dollars, add to that a crappy B1S (1 vCPU burstable, 10% baseline) instance...
(and you said you need 100 GB of storage too..)
Also, technically, in order to get a promise of 99.99% availability from M$, you'd need at least two of these...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/v1_9/
(otherwise it's just 99.9% at most)
Actually if it's just one server you're looking for (and not let say the same x10), and you'd be OK with either a 1/8 of an Epyc or up to couple of ARM cores / VPS, perhaps just go with Oracle Cloud?
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Possible downside: Bandwidth might be limited only up to 50Mbps (based on various YABS samples for EPYC instances, example ; unsure about ARM)
Alternative (albeit similar) idea, provided Europe would also be tolerable: Hetzner! (has a lot of street cred in these circles and arguably provides what you're looking for)
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (servers)
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/volumes/faq/ (block storage)
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