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The "Mythical" $2/Year IPv6-only VPS - Does it still exist in 2026?
Hi community,
I'm on a quest for the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel pricing. I’m looking for a Pure IPv6-only VPS for around $2/year (or even less if you're feeling charitable).
Why? Just for some lightweight hobbyist stuff: running small scripts, uptime monitoring, and practicing my IPv6-only networking skills.
What I'm looking for:
RAM: 128MB - 256MB (I can live with Alpine Linux)
Disk: 5GB+ (HDD is fine, NVMe is a luxury)
Network: IPv6 only (I have my own HE tunnels and CF Warp ready)
Price: < $2 USD / Year
Location: Any, but Singapore or EU preferred.
I know inflation is real, but I've seen legends of $1/year deals in the past. If any provider has some leftover stock or a hidden "Easter Egg" plan, please let me know!
Budget is tight, but my gratitude is unlimited. Cheers!
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OK
Try https://tierhive.com
Custom pricing calculator:
128MB RAM
5GB storage
Performance Tiers - Low x all
for $0.15 / month
or $0.20 / month for Medium Priority
or $0.22 / month for High Priority
$0/yr. See my signature.
I do agree with OP
Is there ipv6 with this ? Or its just nat ipv4 ?
I mean, most here sell KVM.
KVM is nice, way more stable than OVZ/LXC.
However, context switching is a bitch.
@AnthonySmith how many VM's do you got per Node?
I assume that could be an issue.
But besides the overhead issues and the higher resource usage.
Would be nice to see 128MB but for most provider I guess it isn't worth it.
Running KVM with 128-256MB RAM is a bit rough honestly - you'll spend more time fighting OOM kills than actually doing anything useful. Most providers have moved to KVM at this point, and KVM just doesn't play nice with that little memory. The overhead alone eats a good chunk of it.
Our smallest plan is the XEON 1G IPv6-only with 1 GB RAM, 10 GB NVMe and a 10 Gbps shared port for 0.99€/mo. Not quite $2/year territory, but it'll run your scripts and monitoring without constantly running out of memory. skri.me/xeon
It's hard to believe
I understand the OP's needs, because I had a similar need before, and I think @backtogeek's TierHive is a good choice.
The minimum vps configuration is $0.1/m, you can try it for free for one month.
If you are willing to try it : https://tierhive.com/r/7D91B0899523 (aff)
But currently their IPv6 support is still working, I think maybe we need to wait a little longer.
was @Cam
warp-cli might refuse to run on a tiny VM.
Thanks but TierHive is ipv4 only right now, ipv6 is coming though.
@Neoon I use a different username here
Simple answer is, as many as possible until performance degrades, obviously I can't predict in advance if someone is going to spin up a 128mb VPS or a 4GB VPS, how much CPU or ram they will actually use or how much disk they will allocate.
The backend has an automated load balancer, so far no issues.
https://tierhive.com/blog/tierhive-howto/how-to-run-alpine-with-just-23mb-ram
Alpine can run on 23mb (user space) and APK is still fine, example site (not much content it's just a hacker news clone test right now) https://backtogeek.com that runs on the smallest TierHive VPS with low priority resources for a performance example.
You are right, 100% if you accept defaults.
People have forgotten the lowend spirit
😏
@backtogeek
We're At Capacity
Sorry, just bad timing, we had a problem, so I just closed registrations, all fixed now and back open.
C-servers has a VPS billed at $2.29 semiannually.
https://web.c-servers.co.uk/order-steps/server/418
$7.29 triennial, comes out to $2.43 a year.
location is tx, usa but they had stock in poland a few months ago at a similar price, which may come back.
cc: @alfatarsos
I got a vps as what you want, usa dalas , 512m, ipv6, 1.4$/y, 8g disk, https://laicaiyun.com/cart/goods.htm?id=16 it's has a chinese page , you may need a translator, may only support alipay, I can't do any promise, just forward relate info, you could check it.
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Bro was really eager to post that. 🤭
@forest could use this one. Its NAT but can check if server works for his project.
https://web.c-servers.co.uk/category/multivps-safe-dmca-servers
@backtogeek Is there any ETA for IPv6 support?
Last week
We ran to some unexpected issues, mostly my fault.
Originally IPv6 was never going to be in until we got to BETA, I got ambitious.
Plan is to make IPv6 elastic, so a rewrite is not needed later.
Maybe late March but there are a lot of factors so I can't be 100% sure.
How is this going as it's end of march
?
I am looking for more like Tierhive but it is mandatory to have IPv6 if anyone else has recommendations too !
@Cam comes to mind but don’t know current pricing