TierHive | 1.5 GB Ram + 15 GB Disk = $15 p/year | Hourly VPS | Build your own plan | FREE to try.

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Go here and play with the sliders, build your own package: TierHive

Example plan $1.25 p/month equivalent ($0.001381 per hour)

vCPU: 1
RAM: 1.5 GB
NVMe: 15 GB
Free: SQL Offloading
Free: Round Robin or Failover or Sticky Routing load balancer.
Free: SSL Termination.
Free: Email Relay Service.
Free: Scripted deployment Library, store your own or use public ones.
Link: https://tierhive.com/#calculator

Not going to be using it for a while? take a backup, delete it, stop paying immediately, only a 1-hour minimum is required.

Pricing:
vCPU: 1vCPU for upto 2048MB then anything over gets 2vCPU
Ram: 128MB upto 4096MB - 128mb incrememnts
Disk (NVMe): 1GB upto 50GB - 1GB Increments
Disk (HDD): 1GB upto 4000GB - 1GB increments
Disk (Network): 1GB upto 100GB - 1GB Increments

Free HAProxy, Load balancing, Failover, SSL, SQL Offload, Email relay

Actual hourly billing with 1 hour minimum

Meshed NAT, each user gets a /24 from 10.0.0.0/8 you can use your /24 over all locations and all your VPS can talk to each other over the mesh no matter the location.

For the rest of February, the minimum top-up is $3 instead of $5, credit never expires, services auto stop when you run out, you have around 3 days to recover, after that they are deleted, we auto cancel debt, so you will never owe anything.

We are privacy-focused, we don't want your ID or personal details, the free trial credit does not require a credit card or validation, its enough to get you running for a few hours or a few days or weeks, depending on what you deploy.

Locations:

  • Canada East
  • Kansas, MO, USA
  • London, UK
  • Frankfurt, DE

You can self-migrate your own server in most instances. Big HDD storage is only available in London right now, working on S3 compatibility before we also roll out big storage in the USA.

Cheers!

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  • yoursunnyyoursunny OG

    @AnthonySmith said:
    credit never expires

    What happens to 90-day inactive accounts with no running service but non-zero credits?

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai

    @yoursunny said:

    @AnthonySmith said:
    credit never expires

    What happens to 90-day inactive accounts with no running service but non-zero credits?

    They remain active.

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  • WSSWSS OG

    I really want to try cramming my legacy shit in lower use service, but I've become complacent since moving everything to KVMs a decade ago. I know it's plausible to run IPv6 and proxying through for various services (http/https), but I still haven't figured out how to handle nameservice translation for IPv4.

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  • lgsinlgsin OG

    It would be convenient if there is a looking glass page for testing network routes.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai

    @lgsin said:
    It would be convenient if there is a looking glass page for testing network routes.

    Ok I will add it to the list

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  • teamaccteamacc OGSenpai

    I don't think your slogan makes sense on here "Don't idle and waste your money" is the exact opposite of what we do here, all day, every day.

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  • somiksomik OG
    edited March 2

    @teamacc said:
    I don't think your slogan makes sense on here "Don't idle and waste your money" is the exact opposite of what we do here, all day, every day.

    Exactly! We are dedicated to our cause of idling. I got myself 5 dedicated servers (2 of which are at my home), just so I can idle my VMs with dedicated resources. :lol:

    @AnthonySmith I see that the sliders go down to 1GB for disk. Is that enough for OS? If it's a KVM VPS, I would assume it needs more storage then 1GB... (Is it KVM or LXC?) Shouldn't you make it so it has the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited March 2

    @somik said: the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

    If I understand right, all the following distros are mentioned as fitting in 1 GB of disk at 5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die:

    Maybe any of them or Alpine or NetBSD could be installed in 1 GB of disk at Tierhive?

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • somiksomik OG
    edited March 2

    @Not_Oles said:

    @somik said: the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

    If I understand right, all the following distros are mentioned as fitting in 1 GB of disk at 5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die:

    Maybe any of them or Alpine or NetBSD could be installed in 1 GB of disk at Tierhive?

    Well, I am running a alpine linux on MicroLXC which is using 135 MB of disk, 24 MB of RAM. So I guess it would work for that, but I thought the linux kernel is getting bigger and bigger so would consume more if you are using a KVM instead of a shared kernel container like LXC...

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  • usr123usr123 OG
    edited March 2

    So does each VPS receive an IPv6 address too?

  • lgsinlgsin OG

    @usr123 said:
    So does each VPS receive an IPv6 address too?

    Not yet, but is on the roadmap.
    src: previous posts

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai

    @Not_Oles said:

    @somik said: the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

    If I understand right, all the following distros are mentioned as fitting in 1 GB of disk at 5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die:

    Maybe any of them or Alpine or NetBSD could be installed in 1 GB of disk at Tierhive?

    Alpine and Debian bare bones will fit, backtogeek.com is on Alpine and on the smallest possible plan for example, about 700mb free.

    Also some people are running from ram.

    That's to name a few examples there are many more :)

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  • somiksomik OG

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @Not_Oles said:

    @somik said: the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

    If I understand right, all the following distros are mentioned as fitting in 1 GB of disk at 5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die:

    Maybe any of them or Alpine or NetBSD could be installed in 1 GB of disk at Tierhive?

    Alpine and Debian bare bones will fit, backtogeek.com is on Alpine and on the smallest possible plan for example, about 700mb free.

    Also some people are running from ram.

    That's to name a few examples there are many more :)

    Well, I am running a entire OS + webserver + db from RAM. I mean if you got 64 GB of ram in your server, you want to test it's limits :lol:

    Anyone who wants to try this out, remember, running everything from RAM is all good if it's readonly. When you try to write, you need to write back to the disk and that's where the problems arises... Also, bootup is longer thæn HDDs as everything needs to be copied from SSD to RAM.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai

    @somik said:

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @Not_Oles said:

    @somik said: the bare minimum for OS at the very least?

    If I understand right, all the following distros are mentioned as fitting in 1 GB of disk at 5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die:

    Maybe any of them or Alpine or NetBSD could be installed in 1 GB of disk at Tierhive?

    Alpine and Debian bare bones will fit, backtogeek.com is on Alpine and on the smallest possible plan for example, about 700mb free.

    Also some people are running from ram.

    That's to name a few examples there are many more :)

    Well, I am running a entire OS + webserver + db from RAM. I mean if you got 64 GB of ram in your server, you want to test it's limits :lol:

    Anyone who wants to try this out, remember, running everything from RAM is all good if it's readonly. When you try to write, you need to write back to the disk and that's where the problems arises... Also, bootup is longer thæn HDDs as everything needs to be copied from SSD to RAM.

    There are plenty of tiny kernels that will boot and run in <128mb ram that requires no persistent storage with almost unlimited use cases.

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  • WSSWSS OG
    edited March 4

    @somik said:
    Well, I am running a alpine linux on MicroLXC which is using 135 MB of disk, 24 MB of RAM. So I guess it would work for that, but I thought the linux kernel is getting bigger and bigger so would consume more if you are using a KVM instead of a shared kernel container like LXC...

    Most "Tiny" distributions specifically have kernels for virtual hardware. Alpine is one of them.

    ns1:~$ w
 08:31:58 up 720 days, 21:28,  0 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
ns1:~$ uname -srm
Linux 6.6.13-0-virt x86_64
ns1:~$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           346Mi        94Mi        46Mi       4.0Ki       215Mi       251Mi
Swap:          475Mi       317Mi       158Mi

    I haven't been able to get an actual functional KVM in less than 64MB for a couple of years with a Linux base, no matter how stripped the kernel. BSDs work pretty well with a custom kernel.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai
    edited March 4

    @WSS said: Alpine is one of them.

    yep, Alpine is still pretty magic even now, few standard services that are not really needed, you can swap out sshd for dropbear and then:

    backtogeek:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-unnecessary.conf
# Graphics (headless server)
blacklist drm
blacklist drm_kms_helper
blacklist simpledrm
blacklist virtio_gpu
blacklist fb

# KVM (not nesting VMs)
blacklist kvm
blacklist kvm_amd
blacklist kvm_intel

# Legacy devices
blacklist floppy
blacklist cdrom
blacklist sr_mod
blacklist isofs

# HID/input (headless)
blacklist hid
blacklist usbhid
blacklist hid_generic
blacklist psmouse
blacklist mousedev

# Wrong cloud drivers (not GCP/AWS)
blacklist gve
blacklist ena

# Force block DRM (blacklist doesn't work, ACPI triggers it)
install drm /bin/true
install drm_kms_helper /bin/true
install simpledrm /bin/true
install fb /bin/true

# USB (not needed on VPS)
blacklist usbcore
blacklist xhci_hcd
blacklist xhci_pci
blacklist usb_common

# I2C (not needed)
blacklist i2c_core
blacklist i2c_smbus
blacklist i2c_piix4

# Input (headless)
blacklist evdev
blacklist button

# Misc not needed
blacklist loop
blacklist ata_generic
blacklist i6300esb
blacklist qemu_fw_cfg

# Loop device
blacklist loop

# Memory ballooning
blacklist virtio_balloon

    gets you down closer to 20mb.

    depends what you need I guess.

    mkinitfs, grub-mkconfig etc...

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  • ehabehab

    @AnthonySmith nice to see you an alpiner.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith ModeratorHosting ProviderOGSenpai

    @ehab said:
    @AnthonySmith nice to see you an alpiner.

    To be honest I ignored it for a long time, now I totally get it.

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  • WSSWSS OG

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @ehab said:
    @AnthonySmith nice to see you an alpiner.

    To be honest I ignored it for a long time, now I totally get it.

    Now he's going to stick his hand down your pantaloons twice as often.

    My pronouns are like/subscribe.

  • ehabehab
    edited March 5

    @WSS said:

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @ehab said:
    @AnthonySmith nice to see you an alpiner.

    To be honest I ignored it for a long time, now I totally get it.

    Now he's going to stick his hand down your pantaloons twice as often.

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