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I started from dedicated server at theplanet.com. I don't remember how much it was :-/ . After that it was from jaguarpc.com
those guys was ultra premium.
My first VPS must have been with JohnCompanies or RootBSD, since they were basically the only ones supporting BSD in the early 2000's. But it was expensive and a pita to manage, so I pretty soon moved everything to dedicated hardware at Layered Tech and ran my own VPS's on that for about 10 years.
My first VPS from mpserv.net (now vortexserver),
128MB $4/year (discount from LEB) since 2014.
Btw, Vortexserver still operate?
Mine was Bluehost around 2009, unlimited space but mostly idle because of no visitor except myself
. Lurking around LEB for a while before ending up with LET. Still dont know the relationship between them. I thought both were the same 😂 but there are more exclusive deals in LET than in the other.
my first vps was from a free tier of openstack and 2 paid openvz vps from Crissic in LA and Jacksonville.
DigitalOcean $5 plan in SFO1 with free credits from GitHub Education
My first server was a 16mb/2gb UML VPS for $5 from corevps.com in 2005. The site was later acquired by Russell Foster (for those who have heard this name before).
My first VPS came from @BlueVM, and it was obtained from LEB. It was a very good VPS located in Illinois, and was very happy with it. I paid $20/year for it, until company was sold a few years later.
My first shell came from Nic-Nac-Project.de (now called FreeShell). I obtained it in 2004 by sending a postcard to owner of project Sebastian Krajenski. This shell was my first interaction with Debian Linux, allowing me to learn and test scripting. I still use it today as a backup email. A big thank you to Sebastian Krajenski.
My first dedicated server came from OVH in 2010. It was a Real Private Server (also called RPS at the time) with about the same specs as the VPS from BlueVM. I paid ~$200/year for this dedicated server and used it for about 3 years.
My first physical server was a Pentium 1 with 24mb RAM and 500mb HDD. I used it as PC until 2002, then used it as a router + firewall until 2006 for the fun of tinkering with it. Now I have Raspberry Pi Zero and 3B+ for playing.
i kinda miss lowendadmin
1GB, Shinjiru
My first VPS I got from a friend working at server4you, on his testing dedi. I used it as a replacement for an old laptop that was used to host teamspeak 3 servers on my 6k DSL line. Thank you Roberto.
My first was from LEB.. I just can't remember the providers name for the life of me and I'm fairly sure it was a summer host. I think they had "box" in the name - one day they just disappeared and my server stopped working, so that was great.
They say you never forget your first.. well, I didn't, just not the name or any other actual details of it
But the first "serious" VPS I got was @LiteServer - I had a bunch of minor ones running with them and always had great support and great uptime.
I started with a 15$ yearly I believe 128 or 256MB OpenVZ plan from the now long defunct NordicVPS. I had found it on LEB, and despite being a crappy provider overall it had a killer price for the time.
Still, thanks to them I started my server administration journey!
Here it is:
https://lowendbox.com/blog/nordicvps-15year-128mb-openvz-vps-in-germany-exclusive-offer/
Ah the good old times:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110128135356/http://nordicvps.com/
Wow.. theplanet.com -- you just blew my mind. Haven't thought about them in about a decade.
My first VPS was with Host1Free.
Then my first, real usage, VPS was hosted with budgetvz.com. Back then they were really great - until they deadpooled.
They even had IPv6, back then in 2015, unlike some providers around here nowadays.
Then OVH, Contabo, HostMyBytes, some romanian scam host, Scaleway, WisHosting, Noez, ...
My first was burst.net lol
Can't remember who exactly was my first vm did have a burstnet so will say that.
My first dedicated was OVH RPS was pretty much pure garbage with network based disks.
Mine was URPad.net $12 - 256MB OpenVZ & they were very popular at that time.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/urpad-12year-256mb-openvz-vps-in-los-angeles-dallas-and-buffalo/
Ah Crissic, My most loved provider it was ! 🥰
Haven't been using VPS's for that long... First one would've been a OVH VPS SSD 1 (2gb ram / 1 core 2.4GHz CPU / 10gb SSD) for like $3.50/mo.
2012 urpad then met chicago vps
My transition was from first dedicated in 2000 at Rackspace managed hosting and then downgrade to my first experience with VPS was a managed VPS with Wiredtree ~2003 IIRC. Come along way from Linux noob to developing my own LEMP stack
Greenvaluehost, they advertise here. My first international purchase, using PayPal
BudgetVM, which is still advertising on LEB.
VPSDIME, 7$, 2015
Was it also your first chargeback?
Francisco
RackSRV, 12 years ago.
Screenshot: XMB Forum
Another thing from the past, no one use XMB anymore.. was a great alternative that looked cool at the time
google cloudvps.
I think BuyVM took my VPS virginity, had to wait on IRC to grab it too. Before that it was all dedicated servers.