Hosting prices

[mikelowrey]

Hello,

Is a VPS with 1GB of RAM and 30GB SSD Storage for $15/month good? comparing to a shared server?
Thanks!

 

[Jaxel]

The price actually sounds too good to be true. Worry about hosts whose prices are too low, such as GoDaddy. Many of these hosts are in the business of "upselling". The first few months will run great, but slowly performance will begin to degrade... then when you complain, they will tell you "you need to buy the next level up".

Also, be aware of "managed" versus "un-managed" servers. In a managed server, its like a shared server where the host handles everything. If you have an issue, you send in a support ticket, and they fix it. With an un-managed server, you're responsible for everything. They expect you to know how to run a server.

 

[mikelowrey]

@Jaxel thanks for the info, I noticed with this hosting, I just installed a fresh copy and takes a while to load, I guess I am gonna have to jump ship.

 

[sbj]

Managed or unmanaged? If managed, then probably, if not, then it can be better.
Most of the big hosting companies offer the same offer for 10$/month.
https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ng-to-vps-dedicated-server.96928/#post-926893
Vultr actually offers 2gb ram for 15$/month, the rest in the list 10$/month for 1gb.

 

[mikelowrey]

So you would say vultr vs nimbus?

 

[The Dark Wizard]

So you would say vultr vs nimbus?

Are you looking only for VPS? If so, I recommend linode.com

 

[Jesepi]

For managed that seems very cheap. For unmanaged it isn't terrible. Check out these prices:

• https://www.linode.com/pricing
• https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
• https://www.ramnode.com/index.php

Note that all of the above are unmanaged. Linode offers managed services, but they charge $100 per node, per month.

For managed VPS, https://www.servint.net and https://www.liquidweb.com/ are popular.

 

[Mike Edge]

So you would say vultr vs nimbus?

Depends what you need it for really and if you want managed or unmanaged. IIRC, Nimbus only offers managed services and I know Vultr only offers unmanaged.

 

[mikelowrey]

Am open to anything vps shared whatever. I just want some good reliable and at a good price. I am looking for under $20. I am starting now so I don't need all the power right away I just want something that if I need to go up I can do it with no hiccups.

 

[Ernest L. Defoe]

I highly recommend @xenBoost Mike. His servers are nice and powerful and you get options such as memcached and elasticsearch for free (You still have to purchase the ES addon from xF though) plus awesome support.

 

[Paul B]

@ugur, please note the rules with regards to posting affiliate links.

Rule 10 here: https://xenforo.com/community/help/terms

 

[Paul B]

You still haven't declared it as an affiliate link.

 

[Paul B]

Not already clear from the link?

Not for everyone, no.

Hence the rule.

Edit: And now I see all of the posts have been deleted, making my posts look completely out of place

 

[ugur]

Not for everyone, no.

Hence the rule.

I've never seen anything so ridiculous
I delete messages

 

[AdamD]

making my posts look completely out of place

Sure you weren't talking to yourself?
I think it's a very good rule to have, it's just a shame people can't be genuine in the first place, then we wouldn't need such rules
Oh well

 

[Daniel Hood]

I've never seen anything so ridiculous
I delete messages

Because saying

www.website.com/referralcode (my affiliate link)

would have been so difficult.

 

[Mike Edge]

Because saying would have been so difficult.

Rules 'R Hard

 

[RickM]

The above notes by Jaxel and others on the pricing. A few years ago this would have been too cheap.

But with the likes of DigitalOcean and Vultr, its not the case anymore.

DigitalOcean is a massive company with an amazing infrastructure, very solid financial backing and a good profit margin.

They are cheap because instead of buying handfuls of servers at a time at RRP, they locked in deals to buy hundreds of thousands of servers at once.

Your budget is perfectly fine for an unmanaged VPS at DigitalOcean or Vultr.

Hell you could pick up three of the $5/mo DO boxes and setup a mini cluster if you wanted to.

 

[Jaxel]

I use Knownhost's SSD-4 package...

• 5.25GB Guaranteed RAM
• 80GB RAID-10 SSD Storage
• 10000GB Bandwidth

Its $80 a month, but its fully managed. If I have any issues, I email them and they have it worked out within 5 minutes. They are a great host; which is why I've been using them for 6 years... never once tried to upsell me.