My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have an openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it’s not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

  • Kokesh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.

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      Just a PSA, never ever EVER request deletion of an Oracle free tier if there is any possibility you might want one in the future.

      You can delete/remove instances or whatever as you desire, but you won’t be able to get a second free tier account even if the first is completely deleted.

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      Their free tiers look nice, but I’ve read that your server must stay above X% CPU usage average to prevent deletion, is that true?

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      Interesting, maybe I’ll play around with that. I’m currently on a simple $5/month Hetzner VPS which does everything I need it to do, but maybe I’ll try using it for experimental stuff (considering a Rust build server, for example).

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      I got one. It’s just too slow for what I need and can’t do webrtc because of a hardware limitation.

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        24gb memory and 4 OCPU . the CPU doesnt sound like much, but if its using the ampere back end and not the amd micro, the CPU performance scales up with demand (to a point).

        I have two containers running, one using 16gb memory and another using 4gb, they each have one cpu and they perform fine for what they do.