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I think it was Twinservers Hosting Solutions or xfusesolutions, around 2010. Till then, I was using shared managed services for my websites.
brings back memories.. my first vps was set up by manually typing qemu command like maniac on my windows xp old celeron laptop, if it is considered. then, my uncle gave me VPS hosted on his laptop in a datacenter and a domain name as my birthday present. 4GB RAM and 40GB disk, forgot what cpu, but it's excellent for student. he said he will host it forever, but because of circumstances, he pulled the plug after about 3 or 4 years. it was fun, and i still remember its IP address lol. I miss you, S1.
I can't remember my first VPS, I think I made my own.
The first VPS I purchased from lowendtalk is ramnode I believe.
Virpus I think. What a nightmare 😂😂
ZXHosting was my first VPS.
got one from host1free. not longer used it since they closed their free vps service and only offer "premium vps" under host1plus brand. as far as I know, host1plus was sold to heficed.com, and then its acquired by hivelocity.
My first VPS was on AWS Free Tier. I didn't realise it was only free for a year so I had to pay for a month before I could cancel it.
Yup
It’s back with a vengeance, with a new purpose on a better platform and better hardware.
ISPsystem stack: BILLmanager -> VMmanager -> DNSmanager. Comes with more features than before. Colocated in Fremont, California with Hurricane Electric. Take a look when you have a moment and ping me if you need anything.
Free VMs for teachers and students. There is also a big discount code hidden in terminal.
Until recently I used only local providers.
First one I can find about is from pipni.cz in 2008, and I see no specs, only that it was running Slackware.
Then first one with specs was wedos.cz in 2012:
I CPU, 15 GB HDD, 512 MB RAM.
Basically the lowest starter plans. They were mostly idling back then too, it was for some experiments, for everyday stuff I ran Linux at my home PC even before that.
Santrex
I was a mischievous kid back in the day
Digitalocean from Github student pack
Good one but would avoid answering.
This pretty much resembles a security question -
"What street did you grow up on?", “What was the name of your first pet?”, “What is your favorite movie?" etc
AWS. FUCK AWS!
hudsonvalleyhost.com Cyber Monday 3GB RAM VPS - 3 Year Plan $89.00, in 2014
Probably alienvps, like some 128Mb ram server I'd reckon. Before that, dedicated only, served by some servers I put up in the garage.
Arubacloud and nfoservers
My first was around 2006/7 and was with SmokyHosts ( @SmokyHosts ). Just looked in my gmail to see if I could find specs but I've archived those messages off to backup so don't remember what exactly it was. Here's proof from a tutorial I did in their forum way back then lol: https://smokyhosts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=35487#p35487
Vpsdime
Openvz Yearly Deal.
Still going Strong.. Though world had moved to KVM.
Still, Online
- happy with that Purchase though
Thank you for trusting us almost 20 years ago, when we had just launched VPS services.
20 years later, we are still proud to be able to build a sustainable business thanks to loyal customers who've been with us past 2 decades!
BuyVM
I think first virtual machine I got was from CloudSigma
I got my first VPS from Frantech @Francisco
128MB OVZ vps from Ramnode 2014.
ramnode and oneasiahost in 2013-2015, 128-256mb of ram for tunneling 😁
Mine was from VirMach in 2017 for $2. I think it was OpenVZ.
I believe my first VPS was with newwebsite.com (long since closed down) back in 2009 or so. It used Xen architecture if memory serves me right.
My first vps was with nexusbytes
vultr or atlantic. Vultr i still use.
Dreamhost. Had them for shared hosting and at the time they added a VPS offering was offered an early adopters discount. Was $0.50 a month for the VPS which from memory had 256MB memory, and I’m unsure on the other specs. Ran that thing for nearly a decade I think until they did pricing adjustments and my $0.50 VPS was going to become like $8 a month. Cancelled ahead of that happening.
Moved to Racknerd at that point and have since broadens to other low end providers.