Hi! I selfhost a lot of stuff, but I’d like to have some services outside my LAN. Like uptimekuma or maybe a unifiedpush server. What cheap hosters can you recommend? I already have a spare domain name, and one criteria is European location.
Thanks!
Hetzner has auctions on dedicated servers that can be really good. But if you just need a vps, check out Contabo.
Also netcup has really good deals during the winter holidays
I think I get those emails twice a year. And it’s usually same price and double storage for the VPSes. Can recommend netcup.de as well. They used to be a bit cheaper than today, but I guess every hoster increased price within the last year.
The RAM and Storage costs have skyrocketed due to AI. My home server is running 64GB because I just happened to have a kit laying around from an old project.
Yes. I’ve been somewhat lucky as well. Upgraded my homeserver to 48GB to run a few virtual machines and maxed out my old laptop well before prices skyrocketed. Got to check if I still pay the ~8€ a month for my netcup VPS or if they increased price for existing customers as well…
ionos.de has VPS for 1€/month, which are not that bad. Server locations are Spain or Germany afaik.
The have some more European locations. I got mine in France.
Definitely not good, but very cheap https://lowendbox.com/
For actual hardware: Hetzner. For VPS there are many choices. Digitalocean is cheap and easy, has european data centers, and some decent value add services.
Are they an american company? European data centers mean nothing if they are an american company.
Hetzner works very well for me.
Hetzner or Netcup
Free.
Use Cloudflare to point directly to your server. As a layer of security on top, ensure only certain emails or certain domains are able to get through to them.
I’ve done this about 1 year ago for my family and works flawlessly. Exposed Nextcloud, uptimekuma, immich, emby, etc. About 8 services.
Oracle has an always free tier which provides two x64 AMD based virtual machines. They are more or less cloud based calculators in terms of performance, but out of experience I can tell you it is more than sufficient for a few docker containers.
European locations are available.
Problem of free tier is just to entice devs in the hope that one of them likes the infrastructure and works at a whale
If you use the free tier too much they close it because you used it too much and exceeded their fair use policy
If instead you don’t use it enough, they close it for inactivity
I tried that and my account got randomly deleted
ovh dedicated kimsufi servers are deadly cheap https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/kimsufi/
hetzner server auction https://www.hetzner.com/sb/Any good cheap VPS for something like Netbird server or Headscale with servers available in the United States.
I personally use scaleway, but for options you can check here https://european-alternatives.eu/
Hetzner is pretty cheap, and have datacenters all over (I mainly use the one in finland). For your usecase, a very cheap VPS shoyld do. If you want a physical machine I can recommend their server auction.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability NAT Network Address Translation VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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If shared hosting isn’t a problem Uberspace might be interesting. I used it as long as i didn’t solely self host.
