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for bragging rights
Generally used as a VPN.
after decades of using computers and buying vps I finally came up with a jobs hub with free job posting and resume posting which is helping thousands if not millions. I hope programmers surely will get some idea or other what to do with computing power.
Keep computing... cheers!!!
Thanks for the answers everybody. I think another good use in a vein similar to a VPN would be to use it as a tunnel. You could run a local server that tunnels to the VPS, and use a reverse proxy so that your local IP is never exposed.
Professional idleing
We were running Windows with much less than that not so long ago.
It's already pretty good for many uses.
Even if applications tend to consume a lot of RAM...easier to develop.
DNS, VPN, monitoring are typical use cases (for me anyway).
Re "min 4 GB and 2 cores" - BS! I've run whole dynamic websites, incl. btw. communities with 1000s of users, on far lower spec'd systems. But then I didn't use PHP nor the other bloat monstrosity MySQL (no matter under which name, e.g. MariaDB).
It might sound shocking to many of todays "experts" and "professionals" but for 75+% of all websites e.g. SQLite is more than good and fast enough.
P.S. There are good linux distros out there that use hardly about 100 MB RAM, incl. X! and much, much less without X (I anyway still fail to understand why people use Ubuntu - with full X, of course - on a server. Probably remote management with CLI isn't acceptable for them).
Do you mean the display manager X?
The only distro that I know of, that is light weight and is actually useful, is alpine. It is so tiny. If someone is using docker, I would suggest them to just use alpine as base OS
I use 256MB vps for cpanel DNS, works great. You used to be able to install it on that, but the guys at cpanel 4 years ago changed the script for install and now you have to either modify the script or install in 1gig then down to 256. We used to run it on a 128 years and years ago, but it won't do that anymore 😂
But after it runs fine, just disable all services except DNS.
Actually, it can do a lot of things. I even have a Raspberry Pi 3B at home that has been running steadily for six years, hosting some of my microservices.
For some monitoring applications or tasks with stability requirements, using these low-spec VPS in a distributed manner might be a better choice. After all, most of my services don't require highly advanced configurations. Even if I were asked to install all my services on a highly configured server, I would feel that it's not very secure.
Utilizing minimal performance and allocating more performance to those in need is also an advocate for environmental conservation.
It's fine to run uptime kuma to check on status of other VPS
what's the weblink for it?
VPN, a simple testing platform.
For just extra 9 cents per year
This is a much better deal from same provider
1 vCPU Core
20 GB SSD
1 GB RAM
Good enough to run Lubuntu and TradingView charting.
Also good for vpn, telegram bot, PostgreSQL database engine with alert, …..
Use it to build some website for personal use
because it is cheap enough
Yes (plus a bar, small windows manager, etc.)
Static web pages