Best Cheap VPS?

[AppleAndMango]

Hello!

There's a lot of VPS hosts out there soooo I'm looking for help.

I'd like a Windows VPS I can remote desktop into as I would like to also run a game server every once in awhile as well as the site.

Advice which host to choose?

Thanks!

 

[WSWD]

What game are you planning on running? I don't really know many VPS hosts (especially not Windows) that allow you to run gameservers. You might be better off getting a small, cheap dedicated server. Of course that's going to raise your budget, but that might be your only option.

 

[m1ne]

You don't have to use Windows to remote desktop with it. Things like tigervnc are easy to set up.
Anyways, try lowendbox.com

 

[AppleAndMango]

The original idea was to purchase a windows VPS to install and run games as well as a forum but I scrapped that idea as it's much cheaper to just go for a linux based VPS and a separate game server, thanks for the help though dudes

 

[Sembrik]

I've tried a lot of cloud solutions - this is my top 3

#1 https://www.vultr.com/ <- Expensive but really good for RDP and game hosting
#2 http://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-cloud.xml <- This is the best and cheapest solution for game server hosting & Windows Server 2012 R2 license is free.
#3 https://www.limestonenetworks.com/ Expensive >.<

If you're looking for US hosting:
http://www.chicagovps.net/

 

[Puntocom]

I'm happy with www.tilaa.com (NL KVM hosting), really good support, they also have presence freenode. I also heard really good things about Vultr.

 

[Tower]

1) Linode- Great unmanaged hosting that has a very good track record, daily backups http://www.linode.com
2) Digital Ocean - Another great solution, cheap too http://www.digitalocean.com
3) Vultr- Another good service but use your own backups http://www.vultr.com
Not sure how vultr is expensive, unless you expect to pay a dime for premium service.

 

[rdn]

Linode
Ramnode
DigitalOcean

and you may forget about Vultr

 

[pmflav]

+1 digitalocean

 

[TheBoss]

articnetworks.com

Simply outstanding...

 

[maplewang]

http://www.cloudatcost.com, it is cheaper and you can pay onetime forever.
but its speed is not very good.

 

[Moshe1010]

If you get DigitalOcean just use a different email client (e.g. Mandrill) since most of their IPs are blacklisted as spam with major email clients such as gmail/yahoo.

 

[eberkund]

I use DigitalOcean

 

[rdn]

I use DigitalOcean

Try Linode or RamNode.
DO has slower CPU and SSD.

 

[Moscato]

Linode is nice =D

 

[eberkund]

Try Linode or RamNode.
DO has slower CPU and SSD.

Aren't they more expensive? I am on the $5/plan and don't really need anything more.

 

[Moscato]

Aren't they more expensive? I am on the $5/plan and don't really need anything more.

Linode 10$ plan has similar ram and storage to other comparable companies, but tends to be more consistent in networking, IO, and cpu available

If you can get by on a 5$ plan elsewhere, your project is too small for linode

 

[rdn]

Aren't they more expensive? I am on the $5/plan and don't really need anything more.

Look at the comparison here: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/vps-provider-comparison-tables.2296/
They are almost the same in RAM and SSD space, but mostly Linode has more CPU core and Network speed.

 

[eberkund]

I think when I outgrow my 512mb droplet I will take a look at Linode.

 

[Moscato]

Good call.