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VPS for hosting WordPress sites
deedeemegadoodoo
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I am looking for a cheap and reliable VPS in the US/UK/EU to host a few WordPress sites with very little traffic on LEMP.
1 or 2 CPU cores (shouldn't be extremely old)
2GB memory
20-50GB SSD storage
50-100GB monthly bandwidth
Should have excellent connectivity with Cloudflare POPs and no network congestion
Nice to have but not mandatory: IPv4 address, custom ISO, DDoS protection, backups/snapshots
I want my sites to load reliably and consistently at all times. I don't need Ryzen 80000 Giga XL cores or 1000gbps networks.
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how much visitor per day?
<500
monthly budget? if you only need to host few wordpress sites, hostbrr cpanel/directadmin is fast and very cheap. 10$ per year for 50GB storage and 3 core ryzen + 3GB RAM in LVE limit. I use the directadmin webhosting in singapore region. its scored 9.4 in wordpress hosting benchmark.
these are hobby sites so i don't wanna spend more than $5 a month. looking for a vps to tinker around rather than standard shared hosting (i already have a shared plan with a provider and am very happy with them).
What about Hetzner CAX11?
KVM
2 vCores CPU - C1V Basic
4GB DDR4 ECC RAM
50GB SSD NVMe PCIe
100GB/mo @ 1Gbps
IPv6 only network (one address)
DDoS Protection
Custom ISO available
$5/mo VAT incl.
What makes a shared (or reseller) hosting plan unsuitable for your use case with very little traffic?
They locked my account as soon as I signed up, probably because I am from India. I have experienced this with a lot of EU based service providers. I understand their reason as there's a lot of spam/scam from my country but still sucks for me haha. Vultr, DO, and Linode are more "welcoming" of Indian customers, but their 2GB memory plans are usually $10+/mo.
Checkout RackNerd VPS offers or Crunchbits. Have experience with RackNerd. You can check YABS for their basic VPS in my signature.
Shared hosting is sufficient but I want to tinker with a Linux box
thanks, i will have a look!
Have a look at the crunchbits mega deals here https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/191996/lets-2024-1-top-provider-free-vpses-shirts-hoodies-and-firearms-final-yearly-vps-chance/p1 should be able to run a few WordPress sites nicely on the 4.5GB ram machine
I am actually using RackNerd right now haha. Their VPS seems fine 80% of the time, but remaining 20% a 300KB page will take 15 seconds to load, whether proxied through Cloudflare or not. The inconsistent performance drives me nuts, and it's certainly not a configuration issue (I use pretty standard debian12 + php8.1 + nginx1.24 + mariadb10.11 + redis7.2).
How about this? I recommend it.(It's not VPS)
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/192011/hostbrr-directadmin-cpanel-hosting-reseller-100-nvme-litespeed-eu-usa-sg-upto-50-off/p1
$4.5 for 3 months?? How do they even make a profit lol
I would recommend to get an shared hosting package from @speedypage, they offer Bunny CDN too.
Oh I see. I am using OLS but not a WP page with them even without caching. Never had any issues till this moment.
Speedypage looks nice. Thanks for the recommendation!
The RackNerd team also recommended OLS. Perhaps it will work better than nginx, though I have never heard of nginx having performance issues.
shared fits your needs better.
Yah. My first bet was to go for Nginx. But, I found that OLS is slightly faster than Nginx in many cases. Moreover, with WP cache for OLS, you could have better performance.
In terms of being cheap, Hetzner is a really good option but it seems you cannot use them. I suggest using Kuroit; they have WordPress hosting and Shared hosting too.
As a user of their BASIC WordPress hosting plan (£10.00/mo), I can vouch for them.
Hi,
https://layer7.net/cloud-server
( Choose France-Paris or Germany-Frankfurt ) -- while germany has a better network in general
=> Mid CPU Cloud Server
For you:
Cloud Server - Mid CPU 2Cores-8GB-80GB FRA1
= 3,99 EUR / month or 7,53 EUR / quater
So thats ~ 4 USD / month or 8 USD / quater
incl. Backup/Snapshot/IPv4
should be fine. At least it seems to meet your requirements pretty well.
Given the results have literally been published today, have you looked at the Provider Poll?
Pretty much any of that top 10 would fit you perfectly and within budget.
Thanks, that's a lot of resources at very low cost. I'll take a plan and check the performance. Personally I would be happy with a quarter of the memory and a fraction of the network speed for similar price as long as network consumption or resource overuse aren't an issue.
That's interesting. I've been using Mxroute and love their service. Also have a couple of RackNerd VPSes, and while they provide excellent value, I occasionally see strange slowdowns on my sites when fetching small static assets or cached pages from the origin server.
hi.
can you please yabs thisone: Cloud Server - Mid CPU 2Cores-8GB-80GB FRA1
Of course, that could just be WordPress being WordPress
We can get you this in the Netherlands:
1 vCore
2 Gb DDR4 ECC RAM
32 Gb SSD Raid3
1 IPv4
2.5+ Tbps DDoS-Protection
1 Gbps Up/Down
32 TB Bandwidth
For just: €2.99/mo or €29.90/yr
Order now at: https://retslav.net/#vps
Are you caching the static assets? Put cloudflare in front and setup some page rules to cache as much as you can. I have a WordPress site where I cache everything in wp-content with a page rule, indefinitely. If anything needs to change, just purge the cache.