Highly Reliable VPS/"Cloud" server
Hi everyone!
I'm interested in a provider who offers extremely reliable & durable VPS/cloud servers. Here's what I'm looking for:
1 CPU (don't care what model assuming it's not total crap)
1-2 GB RAM
100 GB storage (with room to grow)
100 mbps up/down
400 GB outbound/month
3-5 TB inbound if metered.
Ideally, networked & replicated storage with an AFR < 0.1%, automated compute/instance failover and extremely solid network/power uptime > 99.99%.
Not performance sensitive - as long as its decent, I'll take it.
Budget is $20-40/month.
I've looked at the major public clouds which hit my reliability and price marks (Azure, IBM, Oracle especially), but I'm sure there's a lot of other great hosts out there, I'd love to try too.
Let's hear some offers!
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention. USA/NA is highly preferred.
Comments
with that budget then stick with the them .. consider adding google.
Always think @Clouvider HA VPS is quite premium but sadly never used them before (Also because I missed a deal haha)
https://www.clouvider.com/cloud-vps/
Not as big as other cloud providers but they are decent enough.
"Humanity is f*cked up" - Jay
i think i will get heart attack next day if you paid for one hahahha lol j/k
Yeah, I've looked at them too. Unfortunately, no US location (yet), otherwise they'd fit the bill perfectly.
Forgot to mention that in initial post - I've amended it to add that.
There was an offer quite a while ago that could fit in my impulsive buying range... I asked Dom few times but dont think he wants it happens again
"Humanity is f*cked up" - Jay
Google is actually the one that's out of budget. LOL
Compute + storage would be ~ $20/m. Bandwidth @ standard rate is $40/m or so alone. I guess it's only a bit over, but there are much better options elsewhere
time flies so
you could check upcloud, they have 100% SLA iirc
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Can try OVH? https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/compare/
My SG VPS with them has been running for 3+ years with 100% uptime
(I don't know their SLA though, but based on my experience with them I am confident to use them for production)
"Humanity is f*cked up" - Jay
Thanks! That's on my short list too - we actually had a long chat with them when looking for a primary provider, though that dropped out. Have you had any experiences with them?
Thanks! Their pricing is unbeatable for what they offer (as a semi-big provider). Do you happen to know what their storage is backed by? I recall reading ceph somewhere, but that could just be their object storage.
OVH have great hw,specs,cp etc --- but support is almost 0.
So I've heard...Assuming no issues on their side, support (or lack of thereof) shouldn't be an issue, though I'd probably rather pay $10-20 more for someone to speak to if something does happen.
yep, pay $10-20 more - for support.
I have credits there so only use them hourly from time to time. couldn't afford long term usage though what I can say is their performance is decent and network is pretty good. limited locations compared to vultr. their maxiops block storage should fit well for expansion.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I see! Yeah, that (performance, network, storage) was pretty much our experience too with the couple hundred dollars in credit they were kind enough to give us for some in-depth evaluation. We didn't get a chance to evaluate their reliability over a long term though, and I've been hard pressed to find any review about that actually addresses it. I'd spin up a VM and watch it over a few months, but I don't have that kind of timeline unfortunately
racknerd (my signature) so far after 5 months? 100% uptime
Signature currently under construction
Sorry for the inconvenience
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO RackNerd please thanks, I already have enough at OGF + I won't ever define it as highly reliable.
"Humanity is f*cked up" - Jay
i just had a few hours of network downtime days ago, so yeah definitely not 100% uptime.
good support, but not HA for sure.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
been solid in AMS for me lolz
Signature currently under construction
Sorry for the inconvenience
racknerd's really good for the price, but OP needs HA, that actually filters out most lowend providers.
otherwise i would have thrown letbox into the list as well with their block storage. 100% uptime for me in 2 years as far as i could see.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I appreciate the response! But, that's probably a bit far from what I'm looking for.
I know the above experience would be far from the only one about network outages/storage failures, though I wouldn't expect much more given the price
Based on my experience, I'd stick with Azure when such availability is needed. No "low-end" provider I've seen does the same sort of proactive live migrations without downtime.
If you step down a notch you might want to consider LunaNode. They at least let you provision from a block volume, and if I recall correctly they will automatically re-launch on an available node if a block-backed VPS goes down.
Can confirm this is the case, but OP wanted US.
We're on Clouviders network in the US, and Hetrix is showing 99.9998% uptime in NY, but we don't currently have network/replicated storage there.
I think I got one if it's the offer I'm thinking of.
what kinda offer was that?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I don't want to spoil the market so I will just PM you
Hint:
"Humanity is f*cked up" - Jay
wow. that was really one off.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Oh I don't remember that one?
I'm afraid Azure too is above your stated budget...
400GB of bandwidth alone is 35 dollars, add to that a crappy B1S (1 vCPU burstable, 10% baseline) instance...
(and you said you need 100 GB of storage too..)
Also, technically, in order to get a promise of 99.99% availability from M$, you'd need at least two of these...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/v1_9/
(otherwise it's just 99.9% at most)
Actually if it's just one server you're looking for (and not let say the same x10), and you'd be OK with either a 1/8 of an Epyc or up to couple of ARM cores / VPS, perhaps just go with Oracle Cloud?
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Possible downside: Bandwidth might be limited only up to 50Mbps (based on various YABS samples for EPYC instances, example ; unsure about ARM)
Alternative (albeit similar) idea, provided Europe would also be tolerable: Hetzner! (has a lot of street cred in these circles and arguably provides what you're looking for)
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (servers)
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/volumes/faq/ (block storage)
Contribute your idling VPS/dedi (link), Android (link) or iOS (link) devices to medical research