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Help a Researcher (a lot of them, actually)
afterSt0rm
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Hello guys, long time no see 
I'm an assistant researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy (Brazil) and we are having a hard time finding something that we can afford considering the recent cuts in education and research money over here.
We used all of our Google Cloud, Azure, IBM, AWS free credits. You name it.
We do have some grant we can still use, but it's nothing that could accommodate the costs of a server at most providers (consider 1USD = 4BRL). It's nothing huge, it would only run our RStudio and Jupyter Hub services as we have almost everything else figured out in our internal infrastructure for now (but, to be honest, we'll probably be looking for other agreements in the future).
So, which monthly prices would be possible for a dedicated server or VPS like this:
- ~4-8GB RAM
- ~100GB HDD/Hybrid/SSD (don't really matter)
- 100Mbits unmetered (mostly for data-stream from social networks and news sources)
- ~2-4 vCores (only for light data processing, most of the hard work will be done on current servers)
By the way, we are willing to pay (in fact we want to), but other arrangements can be discussed (sponsorships and partnerships are always welcome).
If the discount offer is conditioned to the aforementioned purposes I'll be more than happy to provide verification of my identity and situation as a researcher, my connection to the Institute, the University it's located at (Federal University of Bahia) and a more detailed description of what we do and how we are going to use the server.
If none of guys can help, that's not a problem. Pointing out providers that could help us would be amazing too.
Thank you very much for your time.
Hugs from Brazil!
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I'd be tempted to approach a company such as Digital Ocean, Vultr or Linode. They all sell suitably sized machines at a price point you'll likely find affordable, in geographies you'll likely find attractive.
They may also consider a sponsorship arrangement with you depending on what you're able to offer as collateral.
Hope this helps!
$7 / month
https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/vps-ssd.xml
Check this out: https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=97A-20F-586
This search is setup with your requirements.
https://yellowcircle.net/
Just contact them
Good luck
Sounds perfect for an i3 kimsufi on the next flash sale.
Wishosting kvm special perhaps?
I am a researcher myself, and it sounds like you just need something that's doing some scraping 24/7 without interruption. You don't need a powerful machine for this, although I would imagine you want a lot of storage. Wishosting offers a reasonable machine for this purpose (an i3 with 2 physical cores and 4 threads). You can check it out here: https://wishosting.com/order/main/packages/hybrid_servers/?group_id=5
Try Contabo.com :
VPS 300 KVM for 3,99€/month:
2 cores
4 GB RAM
300 GB SSD-boosted (SSHD)
100 Mbit/s flat rate
VPS S SSD for 4,99€/month:
4 cores
8 GB RAM
200 GB SSD
200 Mbit/s flat rate (100 Mbit/s at all times)
If you are looking for something in Brasil there is Azure (Microsoft) but will cost ~120usd/m already. Amazon Lightsail is available in north america. Otherwise like some mentioned already try DO, vultr, linode.
PMed you!
Thank you very much to everyone that answered this topic until now. I took my time to thanks every single one and to reply those who reached me thru DMs.