Opinions on VPS servers

[Aetherius Shadowblade]

Thinking of getting a VPS server.

Having a VPS outside of the USA seems to be cheaper which is why I am looking at some international companies. But before I do, I wanted to know if anyone has had good luck with them or any horror stories.

The companies are:
Time4VPS at https://www.time4vps.eu
Hetzner Online at http://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-produktmatrix
RamNode at http://ramnode.com/vps.php

 

[dmurphy]

http://ovh.ie are probably the best right now in my opinion which are also reasonably prices (Cheap!)

They have both NA and EU servers available.

 

[darklotus]

I've got servers with DigitalOcean and Vultr, only hosting web sites and backups but reasonable prices, and they are reliable.

 

[Ravenwolfe]

Second on OVH. I have two Canadian Based VPS from them and they work fine in the US.

 

[Aetherius Shadowblade]

Second on OVH. I have two Canadian Based VPS from them and they work fine in the US.

I am looking at their 5.99 plan right now with single core 2.4ghz cpu, 4gb ram, and 20gb of storage. In US$ it comes to around $8, which is affordable for me. With the Website hosting for 1.99, which is around $3 US, I can afford $11 for the whole package of web and server.

If I may ask for your opinion, if I am running Linux in command line only, would 20gb of hard drive space be enough?

 

[Ravenwolfe]

20gb would be ok. Its the stupid client files that take up all the room. You could get away with only using the needed client files instead of them all. 40gb would be safer, especially if they are using an SSD drive. I like to have at least 50% HDD free.

 

[Aetherius Shadowblade]

20gb would be ok. Its the stupid client files that take up all the room. You could get away with only using the needed client files instead of them all. 40gb would be safer, especially if they are using an SSD drive. I like to have at least 50% HDD free.

If I can keep the saved files down, great.
As to the client files, I only use what I need of them.

Thanks Ravenwolfe. I just needed to bounce an opinion off of someone.
Thanks all for your input so far.

 

[cmileto]

I pay the extra 10 bucks a month to double the ram to 16 gb for a total of 30 a month for this. And it says 500 gb, but mine came with 1.8tb for some reason..... I run my uo, minecraft, tf2, mumble, and trinitycore server all from here plus the websites for each and my wordpress blog and a few scripts, ect..... Top notch service. Just passing on the info... Tell them customer "cmileto" sent ya lol
https://lowendbox.com/blog/joes-datacenter-20month-dual-l5420-w-8gb-ram-500gb-hdd-kansas-city/

 

[Aetherius Shadowblade]

wow, running all that is pretty impressive. with no big loads on the cpu.

 

[cmileto]

just ran. hope the info helps someone find a killer server for cheap. Again, 30 bucks a month for this one...

 

[ETsCat]

So what is required to join LowEndBox?

 

[cmileto]

its just a blog that datacenters advertise on
http://www.lowendbox.com

 

[Ravenwolfe]

@cmileto
Ok, I got a joe's box to play with and I put you down as referrer. Really good price, cant wait to see how it runs.

 

[cmileto]

sweet! enjoy it man. Im thinking of a second one if the old lady lets me Let me know if I can help with anything

 

[AdamD]

OVH is always a good choice, as long as you don't need any handholding.
Even their dedicated ranges are quite cheap (soyoustart.com and kimsufi.com)

 

[sahisahi]

Low budget vps can handle a 40-60 runuo server?

1cpu 1 or 2gb ram?

 

[Ravenwolfe]

You will probably want more ram than that.

 

[cmileto]

5gb ram and a decent server here for $5 bucks a month.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/black-friday-chicagovps-4gb-windows-vps-from-10mo-and-much-more/
I grabbed one to go with my Joe's server above. I use this one for web stuff and my joes server is all for gamer servers now.