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$10/yr VPS: Possible?
yowmamasita
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Our organization is walking on tight ropes financially, but it's amazing that we still managed to get a budget for a website and our .org domain. I promised them to make $18 (Php 800) fit.
Luckily, I found http://internetbs.net offering $7.99 .org transfer, and I'm really confident that I'll find the remaining $10 a place in the shared hosting world. Found out there's http://www.hostthename.com having special promos last November (offered unlimited hosting for $9.45). I signed up in good faith and after a month, I gave up with all the down times the website gone through. Good thing they also offer 30-day money back guarantee 
I then continued my search for other hosts... all I found were unprofessional looking sites. Somebody from DP forums even offered me a $6/yr deal but when I asked him about the website, he told me he's doing his trade via email only. Oh...
Then I remembered LEB I've never seen $10/year deals here but I did remember seeing around $15 for a 128mb. Since We'll only be hosting a static site so 128mb is surplus. We're thinking of upgrading to WP as well. If you know someone who's willing to adjust to our price, it would really be a big help if you could refer us to them. We do promise that we'll only host a single domain
A dozen thank yous and kisses in advance!
PS. yes, we're non-profit & socio-civic org here in the philippines
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123system is offering $10/year VPS, you may give them a try
If your really a non-profit you should have no problem finding free hosting. Try somewhere like :
http://www.grassroots.org/services/free-website-hosting
If it's just a static site, is an entire VPS necessary?
"Membership is free and open to all registered U.S. 501c3 nonprofits and Canadian Charitable Organizations"
We're from the Philippines
http://iskwiki.upd.edu.ph/index.php/UP_Lakan
ive heard good and bad things about them, do you think they are any better than HTN?
Usually, free hosting offers like that are aimed at charitable organizations. "Non-profit" and "charitable" are very different things.
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ may be an option if your website traffic isn't high.
A static site and a Wordpress site are very, very different things. Hosting a static site on $10/year is doable. Hosting a Wordpress site is questionable, unless someone makes you a special deal.
You should ask @Joel about them. The owner curls up in a ball and cries to my boss whenever I say anything negative about his company, no matter how true it is, so for the sake of Fran's headache I'll refrain from comment :P
Do you really need a VPS? There is a lot of <= 10$/y hosting offers on the wht.
Can't make the price drop to $10 unless I use <100mb bw w/ 5mb storage https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/estimate
LOL, thanks for the link, I will contact him then!
I'm really looking for a decent host with a very good uptime... and I am not closing my doors to shared hosting
I'll be honest, that's hard on a $10/y VPS. So many providers have tried the super budget market and 99% of them fail within a month or three. Many of them try to pull it off with single disk arrays and then performance is CRAP pretty quick due to the overload.
So, they claim they're upgrading their node, the users hold tight. They get a big better of a node but then have to overload it way more to make up for the new cost of this bigger box.
Very few VPS companies around here (maybe a good hand full) actually have their own equipment and only a very small hand full have their own IP space to make some of these prices doable.
I always warn people to do a bit of quick math to see how possible a price is to offer. If you can't make it work easily, they likely can't either. One thing I can give a plus to our own column to, is we're always very transparent/open with our operating costs, what we have, what equipment is involved and even our commit usage on our bandwidth. Because of that people know exactly what they're getting into with us and if there's anything they don't approve of (usually @Aldryic himself >_>) they know that before hand and can make their own choices.
Francisco
@Francisco
Thanks for the eye opener!
Hmm.. I wonder what choices I have left...
BuyVM $15/year which at least still alive until now
123systems is on its way to the deadpool. The owner doesn't support the existing client base yet keeps taking now signups saturating the nodes even further and diluting what little support exists (if any). You would be wise to avoid them like the plague.
I'm not giving a blessing/frown to any provider that's offering it besides us. I can tell you that when we helped form the super budget market, though, we we questioned very heavily about how we were handling it. Alas, people saw us doing it and assumed "Well, these people gotta be copy/pasting buyvm in that aspect too" but alas, thousands and thousands and THOUSANDS of people have been scammed by this market.
Francisco
So, you want quality at $10 per year, wow.
That defends on our luck. A friend of me got one and his VPS is working very well till now :P
Yes I have boxes with 123, and I can give them a 7.5/10, but still it has some crap support. (No support, just bots, lol)
If you can pay a little more -about $15- you can buy a vps from Ramhost (Tinyvz actually), they have positive reviews
Anything is possible, even at $10/y but you are almost scrapping the barrel for reliable suppliers at that price.
Shared hosting sounds adequate for your needs and 'should' easily perform better than a budget vps.
Do you have a preferred location for your requirements?
Indeed, I would suggest a shared host. $10/year might not be too hard to find around the larger shared hosts'.
@yowmamasita
If its not for profit I am happy to provide our Cloud VPS LEB package to you for $10 per year. Just PM me and I'll send you a promo code.
VPS would be unmanaged, I hope that's ok with you
Nothing is for profit with me and nobody gives me cheap stuff u_u lol
@yomero
It's your lucky day, pm me if you are in need of a UK XEN Cloud VPS. Can't offer any more though, Sorry
I get $10.03 with 1 static site, 30 MB storage & 850 MB traffic. 0 for everything else.
@vmhosts since you can't offer any more 10$/year; what's the best you can offer ? I'm looking for budget UK VPS since I've got the boot from QualityServers !
Sorry best price we can do is £4.40 per month. This does include full HA High Availability and Clustered storage. Mindful of high jacking this thread please PM me if you have any questions.
If @yomero or @yowmamasita would like to give you our offered $10 a year deal I am happy to honour this
Good luck with your search
Thank you, but at this moment I don't need boxes in UK u_u If you want to give it to someone else...
Not a vps but try 110mb.com ?
Very nice & sensible reply...
Agree for the shared hosting suggestion, shared offers:
1) you get cPanel for FREE
2) Almost all companies offers a free off site backups (though, like everywhere else, they're not always honest in that)
3) The actual server is fully managed by the company itself, no headache your side. Also dealing with datacenter/server provider is their responsibility.
So when you are down in requirements near to shared hosting, you can consider what more you get out of shared hosting. If I don't have god knowledge to manage my server, being short in time, and need hosting for a simple and static website, I would start with a cheap shared hosting with good resource allocation. You can actually find a lot of offers at WHT, some for $1-2/m, and I would keep backups of my files in case I needed to upgrade/migrate to VPS (if I get unsustainable number of visitors which is unlikely).
I found some offer on WHT $5 /yr webhosting
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1114578
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