Website: https://zap-hosting.com/en/
Crunchbase Company profile: Click
Northdata: Click
Status Page: https://status.zap-hosting.com/
YABS (from April 2023): VPS, Root Server 1, Root Server 2

In General:
ZAP-Hosting (German company, founded in 2010), after providing Lifetime Minecraft Servers for many years have recently extended their product line to include:

• Lifetime "vServer" (LXC); from 79€ for 2vCores, 8GB RAM, 25GB, 500 Mbit/s, 1 IPv4
• Lifetime "Rootserver" (KVM); from 154.80€, 4vCores, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD NAS, 500 Mbit/s, 1Ipv4, Intel Xeon E5-2650v2/Intel Xeon E5-2667v2
• Lifetime Dedicated Servers; from 572.80€ for 1x Intel Xeon E5-2603v2, 4 Cores, 1,8 Ghz base clock, 64GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1 IPv4
• Lifetime Webhosting; from 46.80€ for 5GB, 40 e-Mail accounts, 40 MySQL databases, they use Plesk.

You will find that the products first display the monthly price, but in the box to the right where the price total is displayed there is an option where you can click "OR xx€ lifetime".)

Sustainability:
According to the ZAP-Hosting website, there are currently 4043+ active Lifetime Servers , and about 32863 active servers in total. This suggests that while lifetime deals are often considered to be a rip-off and not sustainable, even after deducting 5000-lifetime servers, there would still be about 27000 active servers that are paid through subscriptions/prepaid contracts, suggesting that ZAP-Hosting has enough revenue to sustain their lifetime offers and/or doesn't just vanish overnight.
The total assets were counted as 1.926.615€ in 2021 according to data from Northdata (link above).

The catch (MUST READ!):

ZAP-Hosting, in the light of extending their lifetime server product line, seems to have updated their Terms of Service now requiring ALL their customers who purchased any kind of lifetime product (Minecraft Server/Webspace/vServer/Rootserver/Dedicated Server and future offerings) to log into their ZAP-Hosting Dashboard AND open up the respective product's control panel (e.g. if you have a vps with them, open the vps control panel; if you have a Minecraft Server..) once every 3 months to avoid suspension due to inactivity. If you service/product has been suspended due to inactivity you will apparently receive an email stating that you have 4 weeks to contact them, before your service/product gets cancelled permanently and any right to refund is waived.

ToS excerpt regarding lifetime products (April 9th, 2023):

I confirmed via Ticket that you DO NOT get a warning before the service gets suspended and was advised by the support staff to add a reminder on my phone (e.g. Google Calendar) to remember to log into the Dashboard and open up the product page. The support staff, however, indicated that during time of suspension, the data would not be removed from the service, albeit they stated that it's always good to have backups in the same sentence. I suggested they contact their customers 1-2 weeks PRIOR to suspension in order to avoid production service suddenly getting suspended and apparently my suggestion was forwarded to whomever (likely /dev/null ).

I also confirmed via ticket that the new change with the inactivity clause affects ALL lifetime products and ALL customers, no matter when the product was purchased.
This means that anyone who purchased a Minecraft lifetime server from any of these Threads ( Thread LES, Thread 1 LET, Thread 2 LET) is affected by this and should log into the dashboard and open up their Minecraft server page asap to avoid any suspension for inactivity and/or possible deletion.

This affects, among others, @Logano @Jamph @dedipromo @kalimov622 @yokowasis @Radi .

Ironically, @Neoon mentioned in one of the threads that ZAP Hosting had such an inactivity clause in the past, but at the time of ordering the Minecraft Servers back then this clause had been removed and only came back to light with the extension of the lifetime product line, it seems.

This part about the inactivity clause sounds tedious and annoying, but I'm sure some people might still be tempted and bite. I am/was tempted myself but holding back due to the annoying clause about inactivity.
I am a lifetime hoarder at heart and I can live with Ivacy VPN requesting me to contact them once every 5 years to extend the offer, but logging into the Dashboard once every 3 months is really annoying.
The company has been around for 13 years now and it's likely not going anywhere so fast. It has, however, also never been known to have a stellar reputation in the german gamserver market in terms of performance and customer reviews.

Installing newer Debian/Ubuntu versions (Debian 11/12, Ubuntu 20/22) on Rootservers:
As ZAP doesn't provide these images natively in the Webinterface for Rootservers atm (only for LXC),
you can try @rootnet guide for netboot to install any os, which works great:

@rootnet said:

@somik said:
Could you please make a thread on how you install it? You did it from the netboot, right? Maybe a step by step instructions on how to install the OS if the host doesn't support CDROMs?

Thanks @Ympker for the shout.

Disclaimer: I made this guide in a hurry. The wordings may not be accurate with what you would be seeing on your screen while accessing zap dashboard or netboot.xyz menu. @Ympker has already tried this guide so I'll let him jump in and mention if there's any corrections needed or any additions/removal required.

Here you go mate

First thing first, make a note of your IP details, you'll need this later in netboot.xyz couple of times.

IP: 111.222.333.444 (your server's IPv4)
subnet: 255.255.255.0 (with zap-hosting it's always this for linux and windows rootserver)
gateway: 111.222.333.1 (The gateway is always the IPv4 address with a 1 at the end)

Step 1: install grub-imageboot
If grub is not already installed in your machine, you can do it so by
apt install grub-imageboot

Step 2: adding netboot.xyz in grub menu
mkdir /boot/images
cd /boot/images
wget https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.iso
update-grub2

Step 3: Access your server via VNC
In your Zap dashboard, go to your rootserver and click VNC-Console under tools. Click on 'start vnc tunnel' and then open the vnc webclient.

Step 4: Accessing netboot.xyz
reboot your server by sending ctrl+alt+del command in your VNC browser tab. As soon as it reboots, you will see Proxmox boot screen. And soon after that you'll see the grub menu (blue screen). Once you see blue screen/grub menu, use your arrow buttons and select netboot.xyz. The option should show as 'bootable iso image: netboot.xyz' or something similar.

Step 5: setting up network interface in netboot.xyz
Once you select netboot.xyz in step 4, let it do its thing. It'll take few seconds and then you'll be greeted with few questions to configure your network interface. Type in these;

• Set network interface number: 0
• IP: 111.222.333.444 (your server's IPv4)
• Subnet: 255.255.255.0
• Gateway: 111.222.333.1
• DNS: 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 (whatever you prefer)
  and press enter. You should now be greeted with netboot.xyz menu.

Step 6: From here, I believe you are already familiar with how to use netboot.xyz. If not, here's how I do it. I'll post steps for ubuntu 22.04 installation
go to 'linux network installs'. Select Ubuntu and then 22.04 and then select install.
netboot.xyz will do it's thing to prepare the installation. It's going to take its time. Don't be alarmed if the text shows "done" multiple times and there's no activity after that. Netboot is still doing its thing in the backend. Eventually (after 1-2 mins), netboot will say "unable to find a medium with live file system. And it will ask you few questions. Input these answers

• attempt interactive netboot from a URL? yes
• static or dhcp ip config? static
• IP: 111.222.333.444 (your server's IPv4)
• Subnet: 255.255.255.0
• Gateway: 111.222.333.1
• DNS: 1.1.1.1 (if you want to add more than 1 nameserver, you can do so here. Just leave a space between each entry, for example 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 8.8.8.8)
• vlan id: leave it blank
• url: the default url configured in netboot is for the previous version. It does not work. so type in https://releases.ubuntu.com/jammy/ubnutu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso (or you can use any ubuntu mirrors or your own link to the ubuntu ISO. If Ubuntu releases a newer version by the time you read this, make sure you adjust the URL accordingly.)
• http_proxy: leave it blank
  It will start downloading the ISO and then greet you with the Ubuntu live installer screen. From here, simply follow the on screen prompts to install the ubuntu server. Make sure you select 'install ssh server' when it asks in the installation steps.

Steps for installing Debian should be the same, but much more simpler. With debian installation, you won't have to enter an url for ISO download. The only place where debian installer will fail is on the network config page. By default debian installer tries DHCP. It will say network config failed. All you have to do is select 'static network' on that screen, enter the IP details you noted down earlier and then carry on with the remaining on-screen prompts.

ItsFoss also tested them:
https://itsfoss.com/comparison/libreoffice-vs-freeoffice/

In case anyone wants the Softmaker Office 2021 suite for free (scroll down and you will see it for 0€, add to cart..), there's the deal link: https://shop.softmaker.com/?couponcode=officefree

A cheap upgrade to 2024 is possible, according to MyDealz

Their Free Office Suite (also has Linux support) that receives regular updates is: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

MyDealz discussion for user feedback: https://www.mydealz.de/share-deal-from-app/2729882

Alternatively, I could opt for a cheap 5€ key (not license) from some store on Idealo and use original MS Office 2024. These keys are bound to one device (probably some volume licensing) and the sellers claim they're legit in Europe due to Erschöpfungslizenz or smth and it's some sort of grey area. Could also just use some kms activation.

GENERAL:

• Don't be a dick
• LES is white hat, no illegal content or links to illegal content
• LES is eternal, don't post it if you don't mean it.
• Multiple accounts for the same person or legal entity are not allowed without prior approval by LES staff.
• Smoking guns are not required, admin/mod decisions are to be respected (reasonable questioning of decisions is fine)
• Negative "reviews" without proof will be placed in the Rants section and will do no damage.
• Trying to skirt the fine line of being a troll will just get you banned.
• Ban evasion = re-ban.
• Being a general Admin/mod time vacuum = ban.
• LES is a buyer beware market, it is not possible to pre-filter every offer or host.
• Do not trash offer posts for the sake of it, if you have a genuine issue with a host open a helpdesk ticket or write a review if it is service-related, this goes double for other hosts.
• Do not dox people in ANY sense of the word.
• Posting a product or service for sale thread without a provider tag will get you banned. Exceptions: Domain Sales, Service Transfers, and Free Offers. Other exceptions may be requested by opening a helpdesk ticket prior to posting.
• If you have a bad day or a conflict with someone and make public statements about leaving the forum, "this will be my last post here" etc your account will be considered retired and you will get no warning about this.
• If you find yourself in a room of 100 strangers the chances of you not getting along with 1 of them are quite high, now amplify that and make 'the room' an internet forum and make the 100 people 1000's of people the odds of disagreement are much higher, people are different, no one agrees with everyone 100% of the time, consider that when posting, sometimes it really is not worth it.
• Even though we are from different parts of the world, the English language is what brings us together. To make sure that we understand each other, we use English when posting.
  This doesn’t exclude other languages but should be kept to a minimum to include as many community members as possible (if possible, include a rough translation in English).

How to get a Hosting Provider or Services Provider tag:

• Submit provider tag requests on our support site (https://support.lowendspirit.com/index.php?a=add&category=2), registered companies only. (Exceptions can be made for well known sole traders)
• The member requesting a Hosting Provider tag must be of legal age to make contractual obligations in their country of residence.
• Minimum of 5 non-spammy posts and 7 days old account. See this note.
• Please include the following information: Company Name, Billing portal link, email address to validate domain control, link to public incorporation information (official GOV/State sites only). - We will make every effort to provide the tag within 24 hours.
• LES reserves the right to revoke a provider tag when it feels that it is in the best interest of the community.

Rules for posting offers:
The list below shows the maximum price you can charge in USD for the service if you wish to advertise it on LES.
It's not the minimum price, and it is definitely not what you must pay to LES in order to post any offers.

• $7 p/month Maximum for VPS offers
• $99 p/month Maximum for Dedicated server offers
• $70 p/month Maximum per U for COLO offers (READ WARNING AT BOTTOM)
• $3 p/month Maximum for Shared hosting offers
• $7 p/month Maximum for Reseller hosting offers
• $5 p/month Maximum for VPN/Proxy related offers

• $5 p/month Maximum for Email related offers

• Setup fees are not allowed on any service other than dedicated servers. The dedicated server setup fee can be a maximum of 1 month equivalent of server cost, only providers that have been established for 3+ years may charge a setup fee on dedicated servers.

• Offers that are temporarily reduced below the LES price limits, via promo code or other methods, must remain at the reduced price for at least 12 months before reverting to a price above the LES price limits.
• Offer terms must be clearly stated in the title or body of the offer. Offers judged by LES staff to be misleading will be removed.
• If you want to offer general services/design you may start your own thread and then ask a mod/admin to move it to the offers category by opening a helpdesk ticket. As there is no way to put a price on all services just use common sense - no pointless bumping only update it to respond to questions or update/add new info.
• Hosts that have been trading less than 2 years may only post monthly or quarterly offers, exceptions can be made on application and review by opening a helpdesk ticket.
• Failure to follow the rules may result in your Hosting provider tag being removed
• 7 days between offer posts.
• Please do not bump your own offer posts repeatedly unless you have something of genuine significance to add or are directly responding to a comment made within the last 24 hours.
• Please do not post any offers for services based out of a ColoCrossing data center without first confirming via a helpdesk ticket that you own your own hardware and IP space and have been operating for at least 3 years, this is to avoid the community suffering from the incredible amount of fraud and scam hosts operating from ColoCrossing data centers.
• Providers: Don't encourage spam, i.e. require customers to post a comment in order to get benefits ("double bandwidth" and similar stuff).
• Customers: don't spam the offer threads. Use them to post questions related to the offer(s). If you wish to share feedback, it's best to write in the review section or post a link to an existing LES review.

Exclusive LES Offers

• No specific price rules except they MUST be LES exclusive for at LEAST 24 hours
• Only registered providers may post
• At least 7 days between offers
• LES Exclusive offers do not count towards the general offers section post count i.e. you can make LES exclusives as well as regular offers within the same 7 day period
• LES Exclusive offers are given extra exposure on the front page of the forum and can only be seen by logged-in users.
• These offers will be moved to the standard offers section after 10 days unless they break the regular pricing rules in which case they will simply be removed.
• MEMBERS DO NOT share LES Exclusive offers on other sites under any circumstances unless the offer is at least 7 days old, this will result in a ban without any warning.

Services Provider

• The 'Services provider' tag is for those who offer hosting industry-related services.
• Submit a provider tag requests on our support site (https://support.lowendspirit.com/index.php?a=add&category=2), to get a tag with an overview of what you offer and your company details.
• You will be able to post an advert for your services under the usual offers section once in any calendar month.
• As a service provider, you may post LES exclusive deals also in addition to regular offers without limitation.

FREE Offers

• Offers must be for free stuff only and posted in the "Free Offers and Stuff" category, Free hosting or non hosting related, free as in really free no catch no "in exchange for forum posts".
• Anyone can post free offers.
• 7 days between Free Offer posts.
• Trial offers (Test our service free for X amount of time) are NOT considered free. See here

Domain Sales

• Domain sales are fine but please use the Domain Sales Category it is logged-in user access only i.e. not indexed by google.
• 7 days between Domain Sales threads.
• Domains must have been registered for a minimum of 60 days.
• Maximum starting bid is $7. You can also specify a Buy It Now price.
• Domain sales threads should include all relevant details including but not limited to, the domain name, current domain expiration date, the starting bid, currency type, payment methods accepted, and auction end date/time including time zone.

• You can set a hidden reserve on your domain by opening a helpdesk ticket prior to posting the sale.
  Please include in the ticket your username, the domain name, the reserve amount, and if there is a BIN, the BIN price. The reserve price cannot be more than the BIN price.
  You must make it known that there is a reserve price in your Domain Sale thread.

• If a seller has a reserve price, bidders and seller have no obligations when the highest bid at the end of the auction does not meet the seller's reserve price.

• If a seller has a Buy It Now (BIN) price, a bidder can commit to pay the BIN price and end the auction by commenting "BIN" .
• An auction bid is not retractable. Be sure you want the domain before you bid.
• Failure to follow through with the purchase by the winning bidder, or seller, of a Domain Sale auction will result in a temporary or permanent barring from future domain auctions.

• Auctions, once started, cannot be terminated early without approval by LES staff.
  Auctions with valid bids cannot be terminated early.

• Failure to abide by Domain Sales rules will result in a temporary or permanent barring from future domain auctions.

Server Transfer Threads

• Transfer threads should include all relevant details including but not limited to -- price, best offers allowed, who pays transfer fees (if any), payment types accepted by transferor.
• Transferor must be a member of LES for a minimum of 3 months with 10 (non-spammy) posts (comments or discussions).
• Transfers are buy at your own risk. LES will not play a mediating or facilitating role during the process. Due diligence is a must.
• Service transfers must be allowed by the provider, and completed in accordance with the provider's guidelines for transfer. Changing the account information without the providers knowledge as a method to transfer is not allowed.

Signatures

• No more than 2 lines for general users.
• No more than 3 lines for Hosting Providers & Service Providers.
• Feel free to be creative but never deceptive.
• Affiliate links are fine if prefixed as affiliate links. (aff)
• No Images
• Abuse it and lose it (ZERO TOLERANCE)
• If using affiliate links make it clear where they lead e.g. My "Vultr link"
• Affiliate links or any links that inject/stuff cookies to other sites for financial gain are a no-go.
• Affiliate links to hosts that have a shady reputation or have been involved in scams are not allowed.

WARNINGS

• As previously stated this is a buyer beware forum, some efforts will be made to prevent people from falling victim to obvious scams, however, this forum is not a nanny state as others in the industry tend to be you must apply common sense.
• Do not buy yearly deals from a company that has not even been in business for a year.
• COLO offers, there are known colo scams going on all over the internet right now, be SURE you know who you are sending your server to and that you can have a reasonable level of confidence in the company.
• If someone without a hosting provider or services provider tag wants you to PM them for an offer or PM's you directly with a proposition that involves you parting with money you should do a significant amount of research before paying a penny, a large percentage of these types of offers are likely to at best be not what they seem and at worst an outright scam.

Privacy Policy
The LES Privacy Policy can be found HERE

Terms of Service
The LES Terms of Service can be found HERE

INFO:

Just to save time on the obvious, this forum is absolutely an impression/rough estimation with modern tweaks of lowendtalk before it was shamelessly and underhandedly sold, Essentially LET without the corruption

The forum was started by me @AnthonySmith for full disclosure I do own a hosting company 'Inception Hosting' and I realize that will possibly create some arguments about bias, this is not something I can change until the forum is handed over to the new community owners so you will just need to live with this fact or choose not too, if you choose not to accept this then please just logout now you will only hurt the community with conspiracy soup.

I appreciate some people hate the idea of others making money (usually while using money themselves in everyday life) again this is not something I can or will even try to change, the absolute fact is that companies were making money off the back of the original LET/B and that money enables people to live, eat, start families and provide, the community needs a commercial element, the commercial element needs the community, if you want to be part of a community whereby making money or advertising is frowned upon then this is not the community for you.

You can change your theme between Night and Day under your profile/edit profile to work best for your eyes/device, bugs exist, please report them in the bug reports thread.

People aren’t always happy with their current setup (pricing, legacy systems, limitations etc), and you see demos, try things out, have a play around…

…but still end up staying where you are.

What actually makes you stay?

Is it the risk around billing?
Time/effort to migrate?
Missing integrations?
Or just not worth touching something that already works?

Interested to hear from people running real setups.

These installations each are approximately the default installs, except that all three are fully self-compiled. Each install contains the -current source code for the base system, the X Window System, and the -current install framework for optional packages a/k/a ports.

Each install also contains the object directories and files from its most recent compiles.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD default installs use the LLVM compiler. NetBSD uses GCC.

Not many ports are installed, mainly just tmux (except, if I remember right, on OpenBSD, where tmux is part of the base system).

In addition to tmux, the FreeBSD system has the git-tiny port installed (rust and a second, additional LLVM version are installed as dependencies in FreeBSD's default git port).

The FreeBSD install is running on UFS, like the other BSDs. Compression from ZFS, if ZFS were in use, might decrease the FreeBSD install size significantly.

Each system also contains a few extra files -- about 50 MB on FreeBSD, maybe 25 MB each on Net and Open.

freebsd:~ # du -sh /
 40G    /
freebsd:~ # 

netbsd# du -sh /
35G     /
netbsd# 

By default, NetBSD pkgsrc saves downloaded current and previous versions of upstream package distribution source tarball files ("distfiles") locally.

netbsd# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc
netbsd# du -sh distfiles/
7.5G    distfiles/
netbsd# 

The NetBSD install has been around more than a year, and there are multiple versions of multiple distfiles, maybe including some that are not currently installed. So, let's arbitrarily adjust the NetBSD install size from 35G to 27.5G.

openbsd# du -sh /
10.7G   /
openbsd# 

I expected the adjusted NetBSD default 27.5G install + compile size to be the smallest. I was surprised that the OpenBSD default + compile size of 10.7G measured only a little more than a third of NetBSD's 29.5G adjusted default install size!

Of course, all of these installs could be smaller if optimized for minimum size.

Thanks to @linveo for sponsoring the VPS on which NetBSD is installed!

I wanted to kick off a discussion to get your take on two things: our daily setup habits and a slightly more "political" side of our industry.

1. Your Daily Driver OS
   When you grab a new VPS (whether it's for a serious project or just another $2/month box to add to your idle collection), what is the operating system you install with your eyes closed?

Debian: Are you loyal to its rock-solid stability and low footprint?

Ubuntu: Do you prefer it for the convenience, PPA availability, and updated packages?

AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux: Have you fully migrated here after the CentOS drama?

Alpine / FreeBSD / Windows: Do you run Alpine to squeeze every last drop out of a 128MB NAT box?

I'd love to know not just what you use, but why. Is it pure muscle memory, strict compatibility with a specific control panel (like HestiaCP, CyberPanel, etc.), or just RAM optimization for your low-end boxes?

2. The Elephant in the Room: Bulletproof Hosting
   I also wanted to broaden the topic to "bulletproof" or extreme offshore hosting providers (the ones that deliberately ignore DMCA, abuse tickets, etc.).

What is your ethical and practical stance on them?

The Privacy Angle: Do you think they are an essential tool for defending true freedom of speech, whistleblowers, and absolute privacy from government or corporate overreach?

The Nuisance Angle: Or do you feel they are mostly a safe haven for spammers, botnets, and bad actors that ultimately ruin IP subnet reputations (bad ASNs) and harm the hosting ecosystem?

I'm really curious to read about your setups and your perspectives on this!

I’m curious how others here decide when it’s time to move to a dedicated server. Do you base it on traffic numbers, workload type, or just when things start breaking? Also interested in hearing thoughts on hardware priorities in 2026—CPU vs NVMe vs bandwidth—and whether location still matters as much as it used to.

Would be great to hear real experiences, especially from people running production workloads or gaming / AI setups.

Agar chaho to:

isko shorter kar doon

ya question-focused discussion bana doon

ya provider vs user perspective se rewrite kar doon

Bas bolo 👍

@FrankCastle, @Crab, and @Not_Oles want to point the spotlight on freely available, currently updated software derived from the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD").

We want people who have never tried BSD to give it a shot. Also, we ask for other people's insights, adventures, use cases, and general feedback on BSD. We want to survey members and providers to find out who here already is using BSD in any part of their setup.

These days, BSD includes the following popular distros, and more:

• OpenBSD

• NetBSD

• FreeBSD

• Dragonfly BSD

• OPNsense

• pfSense

Why BSD?

• Security -- OpenBSD aims to be "NUMBER ONE for security."

• Portability -- NetBSD works on 57 CPU architectures!

• Speed -- FreeBSD Performance Milestones by Netflix!

  • "2017 -- First 100 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2020 -- First 200 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2021 -- First 400 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2022 -- First 800 Gb/s CDN server"
  • "2023 -- First 100 Gb/s CDN server consuming only 100W of power"

BSD Opportunities!

• Do you want to try BSD?
• Can you please share a little about your BSD insights and adventures?
• Providers and members, please tell us about your special BSD use cases and interesting BSD feedback!
• Do any Providers who support BSD want to make a special offer for people using BSD?

I’ve been thinking about something that just doesn't sit right with me and is why are people still throwing 3x or 4x the money at AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure?

I get it, they have a massive ecosystem, but let’s be real. If your use case is just a VM sitting there running a service, whether it’s a simple script or a complex stack,why pay that insane premium? What exactly does AWS give you that justifies that bill? Is it just the brand name, or is there something I’m missing?

On the other hand, I’m tired of the "cheapest is best" mindset.
We all know the deal: if a VPS costs $1/year, it’s worth exactly what you paid for ancient hardware, heavy overselling, and zero stability. Quality and actual support have a cost, period.

So, if we take the "bottom-dollar" price out of the equation, what actually makes you choose one host over another?

Hardware Transparency? Network Quality?Real Support?

Also, I’m curious: what are you guys actually running on your VMs these days? Is it all Docker, personal VPNs, monitoring nodes, or something else?

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.

Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"

"(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

"(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user."

The categories are broken into four sections: users under 13 years of age, over 13 years of age under 16, at least 16 years of age and under 18, and "at least 18 years of age."

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/

lol. lmao, even.

Hardware prices are being distorted by AI demand, and it won't resolve until at least 2027. Here's why — and what it means for hosts and powerusers.

The prisoner's dilemma

Hyperscaler capex/revenue sits at 10:1 to 15:1. $500B committed in 2026 alone against ~$50B industry revenue [1], with an additional $500B+ committed through 2027 [2] [3]. Nobody stops building because stopping means losing market share. Sunk cost does the rest.

How inference actually works

GPU inference runs in two phases with fundamentally different computational profiles:

1. Prefill — all input tokens processed simultaneously. Massively parallel matrix multiplication. High GPU utilization. This is what GPUs were built for.
2. Decode — output tokens generated one at a time, sequentially. Each token depends on the previous one — parallelization is architecturally impossible. GPU sits mostly idle between steps, waiting on memory reads.

Four solutions have been deployed to attack this:

1. Batching — sharing GPU compute across concurrent users, amortizing idle decode time
2. HBM capacity scaling — keeping the KV cache (the running memory of the conversation) close to compute, reducing fetch latency
3. SOCAMM LPDRAM [4] — CPU-attached memory tier up to 2TB per CPU, staging warm KV cache outside expensive HBM
4. LPU (Groq) [5] — dedicated decode hardware with 500MB on-chip SRAM per chip, statically compiled execution graph, zero scheduling overhead. Does one thing: generates tokens fast.

The result is a structural collapse in cost per million tokens — not software optimization, hardware architecture:

*Approximated: VR = 1/10th GB300 per NVIDIA [6]. VR+Groq = 35x more tokens/watt vs Blackwell at ~2x combined rack cost [5].

At iso-power (1GW): 600K Hopper GPUs produce 2M tokens/sec. 300K Vera Rubin GPUs produce 700M tokens/sec using half the hardware [5]. The floor has not been reached.

**Feynman confirmed for 2028 with new GPU, Rosa CPU, LP40 LPU, and Kyber NVL1152 (8x density of Rubin NVL144) [7]. Performance trajectory is author's projection from generational improvement pattern, not NVIDIA's stated figure.

For hosting operators: you've seen this before

The traditional hosting industry prices on core count and memory density. Core pricing is being dramatically challenged. There is no better analog than this:

Same rack unit. Same colocation rent. The 2012 server still worked in 2019 — it was just priced out of existence by a neighbor in the same rack doing 6x the work at the same footprint cost. GPU token economics follow the same curve, compressed into 24 months instead of 12 years.

The idle capacity problem

$500B in 2026 AI-directed capex [1] at ~20% inference allocation implies approximately 2 trillion tokens/sec of new inference capacity — derived from Jensen's own 1GW iso-power comparison: 300K Vera Rubin GPUs at 700M tokens/sec per GW [5], blended across the Blackwell-dominant 2026 install base.

Current industry demand is approximately 127M tokens/sec — derived from ~$40B in 2026 AI revenue [8] divided by a blended ~$10/Mtoken average across consumer and enterprise tiers ($10/Mtoken × 127M tok/s × 3.15×10⁷ s/yr ≈ $40B). The gap is roughly 15,000x oversupply before Vera Rubin ships.

Even under aggressive Jevons Paradox assumptions — cheaper tokens drive proportionally more usage — demand growing 100x still leaves 150x excess capacity. The token price floor is arithmetic, not speculation:

Price floor ≈ electricity cost ÷ tokens per kWh

At VR+Groq efficiency and $0.05/kWh, the floor approaches ~$0.00037/Mtoken (consistent with table above). Current GB300 pricing of $0.13/Mtoken is already ~350x above that floor.

What this means for hardware pricing at Q4 2027 / Q1 2028

Market rationalization here means a specific trigger: hyperscalers stop or significantly reduce new orders, either from token supply glut making additional capacity economically indefensible, or from liquidity pressure as medium-term corporate bond markets tighten against sustained negative ROI. Hyperscalers raised $121B in new debt in 2025 alone [9], with Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan projecting $1.5T in total debt issuance required over the next few years [10]. Oracle already faces a financing gap from FY2027, with Barclays warning it could run out of cash by November 2026 at current trajectory [11]. CDS spreads — the bond market's forward-looking default insurance — have been rising across the sector [12].

This aligns roughly with the end of NVIDIA's currently committed production pipeline. If either condition materializes earlier — and the oversupply math suggests it could — the price corrections described below arrive ahead of this timeline, potentially as early as mid-2027.

Compute (GPU)

RAM (DDR5)

NVMe

HDD

The hardware still works. It's just being priced out of existence — on a 24-month cycle instead of a 12-year one.

Question for longtime hosts: Do you still have 2012-2014 CPU models in production?

Started this as it was time we had 1 thread for all HOST-C stuff related.

Welcome all, trolling, memes or whatever is allowed, heck, even welcomed . All in the limits of LES Rules

https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/26/rules-rules-rules-rules-rules-info-updated-october-9th-1935/p1

We managed to clear most of the Tickets from the BF Sale, still have to fix some and to provision the 20 TB deals

Next..

I will start with a thank you for choosing HOST-C.

Here is an insight for the first part of 2025:

• Another Payment Gateway ( no crypto, at least for the first part of 2025 )
• Captcha - a more normal version then the one currently used
• rDNS in User Panel
• A new location for IPV6 only deals + a new location for higher speeds
• TOS will get some updates - these will be sent out via e-mail to all customers
• A decent website
• A lot of tweeks in products, pricing and product flexibility
• Dyson Sphere will be made a always available product ( well, as much as possible / location )

Now, for the rest of 2024, we will do some minor tweaks to server performance, might have to take a few nodes offline for a few minutes, as CPU or RAM is not hot-swap capable, at least not on the DELL's we use.

I wish to underline to everyone that we are no DMCA ignore, that term is pretty widely interpreted as PORN, Shady Stuff over the internet and other, some might got this idea as I am from Romania and some of my fella providers endorsed this type of activity in the past or still do, I will gladly disappoint some in this statement. Whatever you publish must follow this rule, whatever you store, that is not our business.

Short version of TOS can be found here, each subject has a revision number and date when it was published, as we update it, version number changes so is the date.

https://host-c.com/knowledgebase/2/Terms-and-Services

I wish to thank those that trusted/trust us with whatever data they have ( regardless of the type ) .

Get your self prepared, more to come.

As usual, if you have any questions, shoot.

HOST-C

Seller - should I sell VPS servers with DDR3 RAM?
Customer - should I buy VPS servers with DDR3 RAM?

Well, here's your poll. As a customer, would you buy VPSes with DDR3 RAM (obviously at a lower price point than DDR4) if that guaranteed you that you'd have lower pricing, on the present continuous RAMflation context?

Let's discuss.

Microsoft Office
LibreOffice
ONLYOFFICE
Softmaker Office
WPS Office

Another Office software package? (Which?)

And why did you choose what you did? (Technical superiority; lower cost; open source; something else.)

https://www.serverhunter.com/

https://serverdeals.cc/

https://vpspricetracker.com

https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/best_vps

https://www.hostfind.co.uk/web-hosting/vps-hosting/

https://hostingsift.com/hosting?type=vps

I'm not affiliated with any of these. Feel free to suggest others.

The price comparison sites are all of varying quality, coverage and up to dateness. Nevertheless, I have found them useful, some more than others.

Obviously the best thing would be if the forum had its own price comparison section, kept up to date and containing all the offers posted. Linking products and providers back to their respective threads on the forum would offer a nice feedback loop.

I feel that in the end, price comparison sites do not only benefit the buyers, but also the providers. It gets the provider's name out there and gives the provider a chance to reach more buyers. Not everybody can be the cheapest, but each provider can be best in their niche. The filters on the price comparison sites are really useful to finding just the thing you are looking for. I think it's a win/win when the result is that the providers get the best customers for their service and the buyers can best fulfill their needs.

My name is Matteo Mathieu, I am the owner & developer of Servury, an anonymous / privacy focused VPS/VDS/Proxy provider. While Servury is going strong, I am constantly adding & upgrading features on our platform.

I want to know what kind of features / offerings YOU would appreciate and benefit from. I don't want to build Servury blindly. For example, one of our customers proposed custom billing cycles, and we implemented it - it's now possible to pay for a VPS day-by-day.

Currently, we do not have any "budget" VPS plans, but I am actively working on getting some new servers in colocation to offer cheaper plans. Additionally, we'll be offering dedicated servers and cPanel web hosting for cheap relatively soon.

Sharing something we've been working on that I think this community will appreciate.

Hypervisor.io (our Enterprise Virtualization Control Panel) now has a built-in Docker Manager. It gives end-users a way to deploy containerized apps to their VMs without SSH - just a web UI with config forms and one-click deploy.

The deployment happens through the QEMU guest agent, so there's no additional agent or daemon to install. If the VM has Docker Engine enabled, the Docker Manager tab appears and the user can browse apps, configure them, and deploy - all from the panel.

The community part

The app catalog is fully open source:

https://github.com/ReadyDedisLLC/hypervisor.io-docker-manager/

Each app = 3 files in a directory:

apps/your-app/
  app.json              # metadata, env vars, ports, resource reqs
  docker-compose.yml    # standard compose file
  icon.png              # 128x128

We've seeded it with some initial categories (AI, databases, CMS, gaming, media, monitoring, dev tools, etc.) but the real value comes from the community filling it out with the apps people actually self-host.

If you've ever written a docker-compose.yml, you already know enough to contribute.

Credits for contributions

We're offering free ReadyDedis cloud credits to anyone who contributes accepted apps to the catalog:

• Per accepted app PR = $5 in cloud credits

• Significant contributions (bug fixes to the deployment keeping it up-to-date, testing across distros) = credits evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but we're generous with people who help us ship better software.

Credits are applied to your ReadyDedis account and can be used for any of our cloud services.

To ensure the credits are properly distributed, please ensure the commit has your LES username attached, along with a Ticket ID referring to the PR requested.

Contribution guidelines (quick version)

• Pinned image versions (major version tags, not latest)
• Named volumes only
• restart: unless-stopped
• Environment variables via .env pattern with types defined in app.json (text, password, number, select)
• Tested compose setup
• Supported distros: Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 11/12, Rocky 8/9, AlmaLinux 8/9, CentOS Stream 9
• Keep it minimal - no bundled reverse proxies or monitoring sidecars

Full guidelines are in the repo README.

Why contribute?

Beyond the free credits:

• You're building a catalog that benefits everyone.
• It's a straightforward way to get involved with shaping our ecosystem.
• You get to shape what apps are available to thousands of users.

How to get started

1. Fork https://github.com/ReadyDedisLLC/hypervisor.io-docker-manager/
2. Check existing apps for the pattern
3. Create your app directory under apps/
4. Add the three required files
5. Open a PR to main

We review quickly and give constructive feedback if anything needs tweaking.

Questions? Drop them below or open an issue on the repo. We're actively monitoring both.

Looking forward to seeing what the community builds.

Just a quick update on what I have planned for the future.

MORE VPS PACKAGES COMING SOON!
In response to feedback received from the LES community, I will be
converting all the non-redundant storage boxes to redundant nodes
running on servers with ECC memory with more storage options.

COMPUTE NODES!
I am also planning on releasing some compute nodes with more memory
and vCores but with less storage. These will be for running
desktop/server environments which do not have a focus on storage.

DEDICATED SERVERS!
And last, I will be adding more dedicated options as I have removed
the older Dell R620 dedicated servers to repurpose them for the
redundant storage arrays.

Thank you for your continued support!
-LowEndRack

Part 2, as promised, I think Part 1 has run its natural life.

I have to admit, I started this with the personal feeling that the price had to go up, my mind was changed. It's good to talk

What became obvious is that the price is not the singular problem, $7 must stay, it is meaningful, but it may not be fit for the original purpose it was supposed to have.

Having thought about it, I believe this is a rare case where we can actually cater for everyone, here is what I propose based on the collective comments from Part 1.

Rule and small platform change.

1. $7 stays exactly how it is in the regular offers section (not a change, just for the avoidance of doubt).

2. We add a section for $15 p/year or less offers. These are real LE* Spirit offers for those of us who still have it, and we add a perk for hosts that can offer these (Perk to be decided)

3. We change the existing LES Exclusive offers section and rules, the new rule is that they don't need to be exclusive , but you can only post in here once every 2 (maybe 4) weeks, they are still for logged-in users only, we pick a meaningful name that clearly indicates the intent and make it known these are for logged in users only and not google indexed no other limitations

This caters for allowing hosts to be able to show off some of their higher-end plans; some of the community wants that, clearly, hosts do. This allows the general weekly $7 offers continue. This puts some real spirit back into LES.

If carefully executed, I really do not see a downside, unless you feel more offer posts are a bad thing, in which case I just have to kind of suck in some air and bare my teeth and shrug.

I know I have a healthy number of customers here. I wanted to ask you, and also anyone who may be interested in the product if a feature exists later, what you'd like to see in the service. It's not a guarantee that it'll be implemented, it's just a targeted "give me your wishlist" request.

Some things already in the pipeline:

• Transactional email product.
• Full view of relevant SMTP logs, nothing missing, super fast, total insight.
• New in-house webmail client with Cal/CardDAV implemented automatically
• More advanced options for inbound filters (enable/disable most ACLs)

To catch you up to speed...

• OnePoundEmail launched in 2022 as an MXroute reseller, offering SmallEmail for One Pound per month.
• We slowly grew since then as understandably, I worked on regaining trust in the community having left the industry before.
• We now have close to 300 registered users and would be happy to take on many many more.
• In July 2023 I posted about some personal circumstances that led to a lack of attention to the brand. Extra help was contracted for the rest of that year, bills were settled in advance, subscriptions created where applicable, things looked a lot better.
• In September 2023 I followed up and posted about plans to re-do the website, make the affiliate program better, possibly rebrand, make bigger packages, acquire more customers/brands and add some additional services.
• I did manage to get most of that done. The website was updated, affiliate program enhanced and a couple extra packages added. On top of that, I reduced annual pricing, added discord and live chat, fixed some pesky issues, simplified the control panel navigation and added Crypto, EUR and USD payments.

We're now over a year after that post and have had a very successful Black Friday campaign, acquiring a stupid number of new customers, and it's time to use the higher number of users to our advantage and improve the service where possible.

Here are some base plans for 2025:

• Completely fill the entire knowledgebase. I've taken some inspiration and asked for feedback about how to approach this, and have started to section it out. We have categories for starter information, DNS setup, transferring guides and troubleshooting. As well as the usual sales, billing, etc. The plan is to reformat every single article and add images. I've already started the formatting process on a few dozen.
• On the topic of knowledgebase, each article will have a video equivalent. I do have a OnePoundEmail YouTube channel - it has a few guides on there. It gets 100s of views every month and I haven't touched it in almost 2 years. Time to change that.
• Again sticking with the theme of documentation, I plan on publishing a full contingency plan. Everything from the potential of MXroute kicking me to the curb to me being fisted with a christmas tree (maybe not). The plan is to be 100% transparent with what would realistically happen in certain scenarios.
• UK domain management. I started the application process with Nominet, only to realise I am not budgeting for the one-time and maintenance fees associated with that. It won't be worth it, so an alternative option for managing UK domains in the client portal will be implemented.
• Launching a blog. I had a blog, somewhere. I will be making a new one for more general topics.
• Rely less on promotional pricing. Black Friday has increased the client numbers by a lot. Discounts will be less frequent and hard hitting going forward to focus on stability and healthy growth.

There's lots more. But it's 2AM. I want to go to bed. Have this for now.

• KVM or OVZ (KVM is preferred)
• At least 3 public forwarded TCP & UDP ports (including SSH)
• At least 200 Mbps network speed
• 1 vCPU
• 512 MB RAM (256 MB should work too)
• No monthly/daily/weekly contract, only hourly
• Locations, any of: US, DE, NL
• Can delete and recreate with no limits, different IPs and/or multiple locations would be a plus
• Would be a plus if I can choose my own resources

Use case:

• VPN (OpenVPN & WireGuard)
• Proxies (Dynamic SSH port forward - ssh -C -N -D options & ShadowSocks)

And to be clear from the beginning, if your service requires specific minimum for adding balance, I won't deposit +$2.

If you require any more info, please let me know (I can send an example of a service too).
Thanks.

I'm gauging deployment strategies and would like to get your opinion on the following

@AnthonySmith said:

@WSS said:
Another one fell off the wagon. Remember when we used to have a less shitty forum than vanilla?

My first action as a mod with no actual access will be to convert this to phpbb

I saw that @bikegremlin uses XenoForo. While it's paid, it's a Forum Engine I, as a forum user, very much liked. I've been a forum member for many years in a community using XenoForo. Woltlab Burning Board was also nice, but I think both are paid. There's also phpBB, Phorum (someone mentioned) and maybe others. What would be the ideal Forum Engine these days?

• 01:43h: usage 9,66 EUR, predicted 523,84 EUR
• 03:13h: usage 13,80 EUR, predicted 687,26 EUR
• 04:14h: usage 13,80 EUR, predicted 179,51 EUR
• 09:14: usage 32,40 EUR, predicted 33,17 EUR

While the webinterface shows a usage of 0,62 EUR und 1,02 EUR prediced.

Does anybody has a clue what's wrong there with their mails?

Yep, it's that time again when we talk about $7, this is just me, not as a mod; I don't make any decisions on this.

I had written a molithic post about this, or at least that's where it was going. I decided to delete it. Everything that can be said has been said; right now, I think this is better categorised as an emotion than a set of facts. There are opinions on this everywhere, and any mass writing is probably going to be biased toward my opinion, and that's not the point of this.

So I have just decided to add some bullet points to get us started that people will actually read, and I will edit this post and add to them as people bring up good points or the same point gets made multiple times in various forms.

Then, based on the results after a week or so, I will make a poll for votes that hosts will not take part in if there seems to be a genuine appetite for change, and ONLY if the poll indicates that more than half the community wants change, I am going to ask @Mason and @mikho to consider it. Nothing is guaranteed, at the end of the day its their call, but i do think its time we ask the question again, and regardless of the outcome, probably not for the last time.

Just FYI:
The previous poll in 2022 actually had 38% of people in favour of an increase of some type, which was the largest overall percentage and of all that voted, those that wanted any change in some way +/- to the $7 was actually 52% of the total vote on that basis if it goes to the poll, we should at least consider decreasing it too, 20% did not care either way and 26% wanted it to stay at $7

Reasons for change:

• $7 limit was set 15 years ago, nothing costs what it did 15 years ago
• World events (let's not get into them) happened and had a big financial impact on the tech industry's ability to buy and prices that we are yet to actually feel the magnitude of fully
• None of us owns the $7 idea, the guy who did, picked a random number that sounded ok at the time.
• The number does not define the spirit of LE*
• It really limits the hosts and stifels them, and times are harder than ever, no hosts, and where are we?
• The economies of scale are real; smaller hosts don't have the same ability to get started as they used to when so limited, so it now favours bigger hosts significantly.
• The spirit of LE* is not what it used to be anyway. When was the last time you saw a good example or write-up of someone doing more with less instead of just getting a 2GB box and doing it the easy way if the resource use is even considered at all?
• We might start to also see some GPU-based offers as well whcih will start to be more of an interest in the community as things evolve.

Reasons for no change:

• $7 is still very achievable these days, you just get more than you used to with the economies of scale.
• I have often felt like it almost acts as an overall industry runaway stop, as there is a competitive alternative.
• We have always done $7, no logic or reason for this one, it's just how it always has been and thats a perfectly valid feeling, not everything needs a justification.
• There is a chance that it does at least erode the spirit of LE* further

Proposals that have merit:

• Remove the limit altogether for 3 months, see how it goes, make an emotional and feeling-based decision after that, don't try to define it, don't constrain it, just see what happens, if its bad its bad, if its good, it's good, if it changes nothing, then nothing needs to change, at least we know.
• A proposal I don't think we have seen before, which in my opinion, solves all issues and no one should be unhappy with All offer posts must contain a $7 or less option that is considered generally available and in stock, as long as it contains that, you can ALSO list anything else you have to offer. (The same goes for dedis on their current maximum price point for the rules and general hosting), This not only keeps the $7, but it also prevents the hosts from being strangled, forces market price checks, gives people what they want that still have the spirit, keeps the competition alive, and allows more hosts to feel its worth being here.
• Push the exclusive offers option more than we do already, as that already has no limits, maybe hosts dont know, or adapt and rename the exclusive offers section and include it in the limit, line no procide limit, auto sink and auto removal after 7 days.

Please try to keep this semi on track and meme-free if you can help it.

/me ducks for cover.

Port forwarding certainly works in some cases, but it can feel limited when the goal is to host websites. With just forwarding, managing multiple domains or virtual hosts gets awkward. By contrast, an IPv4 reverse proxy (for example, using Nginx or HAProxy at the provider’s edge) could accept connections on IPv4 and pass them over IPv6 to the VPS. That would make it much simpler for end users to run websites on IPv6-only servers without extra layers of infrastructure on their own.

So I’m curious:
1. Since IPv4 port forwarding is already offered, why isn’t reverse proxying for HTTP/HTTPS more common?
2. Are there technical challenges or scaling issues that make it impractical?
3. Or is it simply that demand hasn’t been strong enough for providers to implement it?

I’d be interested to hear if anyone knows the reasoning behind this, or if providers themselves have considered it, I’d really like to hear from you on this. Because from my point of view, for website hosting, IPv4 reverse proxying would make IPv6-only offerings far more appealing to everyone, since IPv6 is still not offered by many ISPs.

We’re excited to announce that Anthony Smith @backtogeek @AnthonySmith , the original founder of LowEndSpirit, is officially rejoining the LES Staff team.

Ant was instrumental in shaping LES from its humble beginnings (even prior to the forum it ended up being): establishing the culture, values, and standards that helped make this community what it is today. His vision laid the groundwork for a forum centered on fairness, transparency, and giving smaller providers and enthusiasts a place to thrive.

Having him back on staff brings both experience and perspective, and we’re looking forward to working together as LES continues to evolve.

Please join us in welcoming Ant back home.

GREAT NEWS!! NETWORK UPDATE!

As always, we have upgraded our network. This is to improve latency in Europe and around the world. It is something we want to improve and intend to improve even further. We said we would do it, we did it, and here it is. Our goal is to offer our customers and partners a better network, support, and reliable services with the best possible network. That is why we recently connected another Tier 1 ISP (Telia) to our network.

Starting today, we have better routes to Europe and the rest of the world. At least much more stable than the old one.

Network update: we now have direct connectivity to Arelion (ex Telia Carrier). The network is now backed by 2× Tier-1 upstreams for better route diversity and resilience.

BGP proof (prefix 176.123.8.0/24)
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What this means in practice:
• shorter routes + fewer hops
• lower latency on key EU / US / Asia paths
• more consistent throughput under load
More interconnections are already in progress..

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Note: We are open to suggestions and feedback about our network, hardware, and related matters! Suggestions are always welcome, as is constructive criticism.

Traceroutes are welcome. We want to know your feedback and experience, latency. We appreciate if you send some traceroutes, ping etc. We are collecting feedback and working on it.

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But actually finding a VDS is not so simple, I have never heard of half the ones I find and the ones I do are so expensive I might as well get a dedi.

Looking for something with minimum specs (higher is better), like:

• 2+ cores (need to be able to actually run at 100% for extended periods)
• 8GB Ram (not contested or very low contention)
• 100GB NVMe (must be pre-allocated, can be iops capped)
• Even 100 Mbps is fine
• 1 IPv4
• IPv6 not required.
• basically, if I use it to 100% 24x7 i dont want to hear from you (not that this is the plan)

No specific price in mind, or if I am missing somewhere that has ultra cheap dedi's (apart from online.net/kimsufi/ovh/hetzner/webtropia/worldstream), I am all ears

Info: https://forum.root.hr/t/hec-unofficial-hetzner-cloud-za-ios-je-live/201
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hec-unofficial-hetzner-cloud/id6758351166