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What's the best deal you've found so far on LET?

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  • @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

  • @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    Apache server with hundreds of simultaneous downloads.

  • sshboxsshbox Member

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    https://tierhive.com/blog/tierhive-howto/alpine-minimal-remote-desktop-on-a-128mb-vps

  • The best deal for me was when in 2015 Mxroute offered an unlimited email deal for $5 a year. It got grandfathered in when the company got bought and I still only pay $5 a year.

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • backtogeekbacktogeek Member, Host Rep

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

  • @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

    It's still a good old day memory, mate ๐Ÿ™ƒ
    Btw, is that you, Anthony?

  • emperoremperor Member

    Most of my server are great in price/specs ratio, in the past i had lots of unsustainable deals (1-5$/y). As of this moment, my better deals are :
    HostDZire :
    Intel Inside โ—† 4vCore โ—† 8GB RAM โ—† 100GB SSD โ—† 25TB IN+Out/mo โ—† 10Gbit - Shared โ—† 1 IPV4/No IPV6 โ—† โ•‘ $24/ Annually

    HostSailor 12:12 Mega Deal:
    RAM 2GB, Cores 2, 50GB NVMe, Bandwidth 2TB $10.8/year

    SolidVPS New Year Deal :
    4vCPU , 4GB RAM , 40GB NVMe, 4TB BW. 14$/year

    TakeHost :
    1 Core, 1GB ram, 25 NVMe + 1TB HDD , Unmetered BW in Frankfurt 13.5โ‚ฌ/y

    Also worth mentioning my KuroIT and AlphaVPS vms 7โ‚ฌ/y for their great connectivity, my znc and eggdrop are online for more than 200 days which is rare.

    Thanked by 1suyadi92
  • mrerenkmrerenk Member
    edited March 21

    idk i usually dont check let so i havent really bought any deals but i pay โ‚ฌ5/m for a 3 core ryzen and 8gb ram server from nova cloud (which i think is still cheap) and quite happy with the uptime and performance

  • @mrerenk said:
    idk i usually dont check let so i havent really bought any deals but i pay โ‚ฌ5/m for a 3 core ryzen and 8gb ram server from nova cloud (which i think is still cheap) and quite happy with the uptime and performance

    I pay the same amount (but annually) for 12GB RAM and 100GB NVMe. Check out the first post on here!

    Thanked by 1mrerenk
  • sanchogodinhosanchogodinho Member
    edited March 21

    @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

    Just few requests and your server is cooked
    Still a good price-to-performance ratio tho. $0.2 for that a year is not bad, ngl.

    Thanked by 1suyadi92
  • @sanchogodinho said:
    Just few requests and your server is cooked

    Yes. But for experimenting it's fun!

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:
    Just few requests and your server is cooked

    Yes. But for experimenting it's fun!

    True

    Thanked by 1suyadi92
  • backtogeekbacktogeek Member, Host Rep
    edited March 21

    @suyadi92 said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

    It's still a good old day memory, mate ๐Ÿ™ƒ
    Btw, is that you, Anthony?

    Yep ๐Ÿ‘ it's me.

    I won't let go of the 128mb dream haha.

    Thanked by 1suyadi92
  • backtogeekbacktogeek Member, Host Rep
    edited March 21

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:
    Just few requests and your server is cooked

    Yes. But for experimenting it's fun!

    True

    Just a basic site but check https://pop2.me thats on 128mb ram and Debian 13 on a TierHive micro instance running wordpress.

    And as a passion project feel free to smash Https://backtogeek.com that's now running a hacker news clone (just garbage right now) on a custom 64mb alpine box again on TierHive

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:
    Just few requests and your server is cooked

    Yes. But for experimenting it's fun!

    True

    Just a basic site but check https://pop2.me thats on 128mb ram and Debian 13 on a TierHive micro instance running wordpress.

    And as a passion project feel free to smash Https://backtogeek.com that's now running a hacker news clone (just garbage right now) on a custom 64mb alpine box again on TierHive

    I'll be honest, it's actually not that bad. It loads quite fast for me even when I do multiple reloads.

  • @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

    It's still a good old day memory, mate ๐Ÿ™ƒ
    Btw, is that you, Anthony?

    Yep ๐Ÿ‘ it's me.

    I won't let go of the 128mb dream haha.

    Haha, I knew it! Good to see you're still holding on to it. Miss those days! ๐Ÿ˜„

  • emperoremperor Member

    IDK who was asking about this deal from HostBRR, but it came in stock, these tend to go fast :

    MINI-EPYC BF2025
    1 vCore AMD EPYC 9655
    4 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
    80 GB NVMe Gen4 Storage
    20 TB Bandwidth @ 10 Gbps
    IPv4 & IPv6/64 included
    1 Backup slot included
    DDOS Protection
    Hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
    3.60$/m or 36$/y
    

    You can attach hdd on this for 1 euro/TB
    aff
    non-aff

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • kkonekokkoneko Member

    It was long time ago, $4/yr singapore vps from webhorizon including ipv4, used to be openvz 1C e5 + 256mb ram, now 1C epyc + 512M ram

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • backtogeekbacktogeek Member, Host Rep

    @suyadi92 said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @suyadi92 said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said: no

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    128MB is more than enough back then, tried with InceptionHosting's VPS and wordpress
    @AnthonySmith and some stolen config from here:
    https://lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

    Busy working in a Debian 13 guide, managed to get full wordpress running in under 100mb ram

    Also got alpine down to 26mb, people have forgotten how to low end :)

    It's still a good old day memory, mate ๐Ÿ™ƒ
    Btw, is that you, Anthony?

    Yep ๐Ÿ‘ it's me.

    I won't let go of the 128mb dream haha.

    Haha, I knew it! Good to see you're still holding on to it. Miss those days! ๐Ÿ˜„

    You can have them back again as it turns out! I don't post/publish here much, mostly on the TierHive blog and in LES.

    I am also lookinh into the possibility of a free tier on TierHive for 128mb boxes for people to play with.

    With the cost of ram getting silly people are going to have to learn to do more with less.

  • @backtogeek said: With the cost of ram getting silly people are going to have to learn to do more with less.

    >

    Facts

  • I downgraded from 16GB RAM VPS to 12GB RAM one

  • @Adam1 said:

    @sanchogodinho said: Damn, $15/y for 3TB is insanely good pricing

    sustainable?

    We don't talk about that on LET ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    16C - 16G - 160G NVMe - 160T โ‚ฌ20/y.

  • ralfralf Member

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:

    @sanchogodinho said:

    @backtogeek said:
    Probably about 15 years ago, I got a 128mb VPS with BuyVM. And I was hooked.

    "128MB" ๐Ÿ’€
    For how much? I think it was very expensive back then compared to now right?

    $15 p/year

    Can you even run something on 128MB of RAM!?

    I used to run mailman + sendmail on an NSLU2 NAS device running an early Arm debian with 32MB RAM and a USB stick. That mailing list had a few thousand subscribers and 100+ messages a day sent to each subscriber.

    I did have to do a bit of hacking to sendmail so that it didn't try to have too many mails in flight at once, because that caused it to run out of RAM and try to swap to the USB pen drive, but once I'd fixed that it worked really well.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2

  • @Saragoldfarb said:
    16C - 16G - 160G NVMe - 160T โ‚ฌ20/y.

    Nice!
    Axushost?

  • Is the 128mb just a challenge to see what you run with such a constra

    @backtogeek said:

    I am also lookinh into the possibility of a free tier on TierHive for 128mb boxes for people to play with.

    With the cost of ram getting silly people are going to have to learn to do more with less.

    Is the 128MB limitation merely a challenge to see what can be developed or run within such constraints, or are there genuine use cases? I can see it as an economical way to host a few static sites, but I wonder if there are any more interesting or niche applications.

  • rcy026rcy026 Member
    edited April 16

    A Crunchbits $13.69/y 2C/3G, some Racknerd promos and lifetimes at MXroute and Namecrane. Also have som HostHatch storage deals that are really good value for money.
    And of course a hostbrr 500GB storagebox.

    Thanked by 1sanchogodinho
  • ralfralf Member
    edited April 16

    6C Epyc, 6GB RAM, 66GB disk, 6 TB b/w, $12/y Terabit
    1C Epyc shitty Xeon, 2GB RAM, 35GB disk, 20 TB b/w, $5/y Enzonix Terabit
    1C Intel, 2GB RAM, 20GB disk, 40 TB b/w, โ‚ฌ6/y Axushost
    1C Ryzen, 4GB RAM, 20GB disk, 1TB b/w, $6/y Advin chess special

  • backtogeekbacktogeek Member, Host Rep

    @AudioDoge said:
    Is the 128mb just a challenge to see what you run with such a constra

    @backtogeek said:

    I am also lookinh into the possibility of a free tier on TierHive for 128mb boxes for people to play with.

    With the cost of ram getting silly people are going to have to learn to do more with less.

    Is the 128MB limitation merely a challenge to see what can be developed or run within such constraints, or are there genuine use cases? I can see it as an economical way to host a few static sites, but I wonder if there are any more interesting or niche applications.

    It's a bit of all of that yes, to help the low end spirit a bit :)

    The https://tierhive.com/blog runs on a tierhive micro instance with 128mb ram for example, https://backtogeek.com runs on a 128mb ram and actually only uses about 30mb in total its a hacker news clone (work in progress junk content) and I also got wordpress running in just under 200mb https://pop2.me on debian 13, working on a 128mb attempt on Alpine.

    Details of all of the above on the blog.

    Apart from that, imagine you just want a script that does a thing a few times a day, why not just use a 128mb micro instance for $0.10/month instead of paying $5 to AWS :) discord bots, irc bnc, websockets, socks5, static content, many many many reasons.

    I think people assume its more of a challenge than it actually is because they are so used to just accepting bloat these days, I constantly read on reddit things like "hey i have a low traffic website, I am looking to move it to a VPS, I think I probably need 4cored and 8GB RAM minimum".... and I just shake my head... you can run world of warcraft on that ffs!! haha

    Thanked by 2david AudioDoge
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