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Challenge to hosts: Extreme Low End box for $1 to $5/yr.
Hosts, let's do this... ?!
I know that some of us enjoy tinkering with LEB'S as a hobby. There is a longstanding tradition to get the most out of a box. Nowadays, most LEB's are not really low end anymore. Which is good of course.
It would be nice if there was a host who could provide us with extremely low end boxes. And I mean extreme low end.... Think in the range of: 64MB-128MB -512MB?, 600MHz or even lower... and a minimum of SSD space. Blacklisted IP is no problem.
It's good to refresh our sysadmin skills and try to squeeze our knowledge to get a system running on such a LEB.
Who is willing to join this challenge? just an idea...
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NAT vpses ftw
@Cam @quadhost
HostSolutions.ro and Wishosting.com NAT VPS
If you want 600MHz, try to abuse your current host. They will throttle it to 600MHz.
HostSolutions.ro is indeed really cheap!
Hehe... that's a good one.
I think this is the cheapest I could find so far while digging through threads: 3,50/year.
https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?gid=13
Is there any cheaper? would love to see if we can hit the magic $1.
https://hosting.gullo.me/natvpshosting/
https://www.wishosting.com/order/config/index/VPS/?group_id=2&pricing_id=28
https://clients.mrvm.net/cart.php?gid=11
lowendspirit.com
Nice deal.
No one would do a $1 /yr product because transaction fees alone will eat up most of the 'revenue'.
At $5, you're basically limited to NAT or IPv6 boxes.
Tiny RAM basically means OpenVZ as most OS need much more RAM.... Disk I/O will be a huge bottleneck. You could kind of resolve that by using lots and lots of old shitty disks (I got dozens or hundreds of 160GB drives that are >10 years old and still going on strong), but then power may become an issue....
It's really hard to do super cheap VMs with tiny resources because the overheads become pretty huge. Realistically, I think $12 /yr is kind of the sweet spot as it's still damned cheap. And as RAM and disk space becomes cheaper and cheaper, you'll just get more and more for your $12. But I don't really see sub $12 /year VPS really becoming a big thing. Some will do it for sure, but it's not going to shift markets IMO.
It's mostly to tinker with on the command line, not really for hosting a website. Close to zero traffic.
So I guess it's either mrvm, wishosting, inception or gullo... So far, it seems wishosting has the cheapest: $2.99/year, closely followed by inception and mrvm.
Nothing for $1 per year or free. Provider need to cover rent, and PayPal fees.They cannot provide for $1 if it cost them $5
or @Neoon https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/142808/nanokvm-free-nat-kvm-romania-finnland/p1
or just use 1 year free at Google Cloud instance, Microsoft Azure, amazon ec2.
but like you said, "playing with command line" , why not just boot linux into your PC ? or just topup $5 in vultr and get $25 free , spin VM $0.004/hour and when you are bored playing with the machine, just destroy it. you will still have $29.996 balance in vultr.
1$-4$ = paypal fees.
5$+ = provider profit.
Wow, didn't know PayPal was that expensive... that's huge.
Alright, $3-$5 it is. Was more a psychological price thing, instead of the money though... Tomorrow I might drop $100 for box. $5 a year seems extremely fair. I guess that's just running it at cost price.
I tried Google, Amazon. Didn't particularly like their clouds. Extremely convoluted to do something extremely simple. Have to read like 1500 pages and go through 30 different menus, to do something simple like adding an instance to a bucket.
thats weird. I just need to google "how to run/get google cloud instance/amazon free tier/microsoft azure" , and theres your tutorial article. less than 10 mins reading.
That's how I remember it. been a while though, they might have changed or simplified it. I remember spending days scrolling through menu's, trying to find info on how connect to their API to do something very simple.
It's the IP that's costly (imo) IPV6 tho..
Bundle of nine(9) 128mb/3gb NAT servers at $2/year (each).
Cheap enough?
https://clients.mrvm.net/cart.php?a=add&bid=9
Do you need nine (9) * 256mb/5gb.
Price?: $3.50/year (each)
https://clients.mrvm.net/cart.php?a=add&bid=10
Knock yourself out.
That's amazing mikho!
It seems the system doubles the price? or is it biannually?
You have to add all 9 locations first.
Bundle is 50% off regular price.
@mikho,
9 locations was too much. Bundle with 3 locations with 50% is the best deals. Just like an early Black Friday 2018.
3 locations or more removes 25%. As always.
ok,
If for some reason, one of the (9) servers got cancelled, will I still get $2/year (each) for the rest (8) of the servers when it come to yearly renewal?
This is the deal to get.
Yes.
A deal is a steal.
But you need to cancel the one service yourself.