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Low-cost mini/micro-VPS anywhere?
Originally I was looking for free secondary/slave DNS and found some old thread, where some users recommend to run one or more LEB instead:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/2899/suggestions-for-free-secondary-dns
There might be some point in it. The only problem is I can not find any sub $10/year micro-vps. Anyone know some?
64MB RAM should be enough to run "bind" with a few small zones. All I could find is "storage" VPS on BitAccell. $9/year and 128MB RAM is more than I need, but ToS scared me (Prohibited activities: Running erroneous (?) applications not related to storage)...
Comments
http://lowendspirit.com/locations.html
NAT/shared IPv4 might be problem (I need port 53 for DNS)...
What about this one?
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/83156/berry-servers-from-8-year-free-ipv6-1gbps-speed-50c-additional-ips-phx-az
$12/year, reliable provider: https://securedragon.net/
How do you run DNS on NAT'd VPS?
@Jarry
Get one of these:
BudgetVZ $9/year 256MB, I have a 1GB box with BudgetVZ in LA, pretty good uptime and network is good, able to get 500Mbps + almost any time I test. Not sure about other locations. As long as you have patience with support and don't be a dick, you will have a good time with Ryan. https://my.virtwire.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=171
VirMach 128MB $7.5/year https://virmach.com/manage/cart.php?gid=1
Dacentec $10/year 512MB, in stock now, act FAST! Been idling for 247 days, according to uptime. https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart&action=add&id=386&cat_id=9
HostUS $12/year 768MB, solid uptime, solid support. https://my.hostus.us/cart.php?a=add&pid=103
To be fair I wasn't really thinking about the use case, only the "mini/micro" VPS thing. Was a mistake on my end, that I feel stupid for now.
It happens.
There was this recently: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/83364/cheap-vps-64mb-5gb-1ipv4-250gb-at-1-99-a-year/p1
No idea how reliable they are.
Personally I'd say just reuse any VPS that you already have (after being on LET for some time, do you seriously still have just one VPS), add the slave DNS as a side job for it. DNS doesn't need to be on its own separate box. And putting it on the cheapest plan of some little-known provider you risk more than you gain, reliability-wise.
Throwing this here again (and again):
It is pretty reliable, but I'm sure the 64mb RAM would leave many just idling these cheap boxes :P
Advice: Don't use this for production stuff, if you foresee yourself having many DNS requests hit your box then stay away!
Otherwise, it's fine in my opinion for what I do - these cheap VPSes work fine for relaying traffic within my Tinc private network.
Could cope with a Syncthing relay daemon, but in about 10 minutes it got killed
Also, it's 100% impossible to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 without paying them $2 for a reinstall.