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[Request] 🙏 KVM VPS/VDS - 6 vCPU/16GB/200GB NVMe up to $25/mo for dedicated cores 🙏

Budget:

Around $15/mo for a solid VPS, or ~$25/mo for dedicated cores (VDS) from a provider that clearly meets the requirements below.

Provider quality beats price - I won't take the cheapest offer.

a) Payment monthly to start- if the service is solid, I’ll happily switch to yearly with a reputable host in a couple of month.

b) No setup fees.

c) For payment I prefer PayPal or a Stripe checkout (I’m okay with paying PP/ Stripe fees extra) - but I prefer not to have my my card details stored on your own billing panel or with obscure processors.

Not trying to offend the newer hosts - I just can't put an income earning SaaS on an unproven network:

About the provider (as important as the specs!):

This box will run production for a paid micro SaaS, so I'm only considering established hosts - ideally 3+ years operating under the same brand, with history here on LET I can read. When you make an offer, please include:

  1. Your ASN (or the ASN you announce from, if you resell) - I will look it up! - so save us both time if it was registered last year.
  2. Your upstreams - I want a network with at least two independent upstream carriers (multi-homed), not a single-transit setup.
  3. How long the brand has existed and roughly how many nodes/locations you run.

Usage Info:

The box will run a self-contained Docker Compose stack for a micro SaaS web application: a Node.js (Next.js) app server, PostgreSQL database and Caddy reverse proxy.

All public traffic enters via Cloudflare Tunnel, so no inbound ports are exposed. Outbound traffic is HTTPS API calls plus a nightly encrypted database backup to 3rd party object storage. No mail sending (port 25 unused), no VPN/proxy services, no mining, no nodes, no torrents, no user file hosting, no adult stuff etc...

Spec sheet for custom offers:

Target (the spec baseline): 6 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 200 GB NVMe

Preferred Locations: Countries East of Europe, Asia, EU or US - in that order. (However, I will consider any location if the specs and provider requirements match.

Acceptable/EXTREME bare minimum for VDS : 4 vCPU · 12 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe/SSD - but that RAM is almost too tight.

_Hard requirements: KVM or similar full virtualization (no OpenVZ/LXC - the Docker stack needs a real kernel)
_

· prefer dedicated (or at least enforced fair-share) cores
· Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 image
· root/SSH
· IPv4

Traffic: modest 1-2 TB/month is plenty
Explicitly NOT needed: port 25/mail, backup add-ons, snapshots.

Provider quality beats price - I won't take the cheapest offer.

Thanked by 1tzuli

Comments

  • @nillionaire said:
    Budget: ~$25/mo for dedicated cores (VDS)
    Target (the spec baseline): 6 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 200 GB NVMe

    Have a look at this VDS. Location-wise this is basically the east coast:

    / should you be ordering, turn your VPN off /

    Provider quality beats price

    The rest also matches: multi-homed network, more than 10 years old, etc.

    a) Payment monthly to start- if the service is solid, I’ll happily switch to yearly

    7 day money back guarantee on all VPS plans, so you can test the VM first.
    Yearly option includes a discount.

    Thanked by 1nillionaire
  • @onidel has the specs u r looking for at 40USD which is above your budget, maybe you can ping @oloke or @onidel for custom offer.
    @NDTN has VDS at 20USD but has lesser CPU cores, you can ask them for a custom offer.
    Both are old and reputable providers on LET.

  • nillionairenillionaire Member
    edited August 17

    Update: open to increase my budget EDIT: to around $35–40/mo for a true dedicated-core KVM VDS if the network/provider requirements are met - the $25 ceiling is probably a bit too tight for that combo.

  • @nillionaire said:
    Update: open to increase my budget a bit for a true dedicated-core KVM VDS if the network/provider requirements are met - the $25 ceiling is probably a bit too tight for that combo.

    To...?

  • @Obelous said:

    @nillionaire said:
    Update: open to increase my budget a bit for a true dedicated-core KVM VDS if the network/provider requirements are met - the $25 ceiling is probably a bit too tight for that combo.

    To...?

    $35–40/mo is my max budget.

    Thanked by 2buggedout tzuli
  • You can also look into @hosthatch their NVME 24GB plan at 22USD is suitable. It has 2 dedicated cores + 4 shared cores with 24GB RAM but storage is 100GB.

    Thanked by 2nillionaire tzuli
  • evolushostevolushost Member, Patron Provider

    https://evolushost.com/vps/epyc
    6 Cores - based on AMD EPYC 9654
    12GB DDR5 ECC Memory
    DISK 192GB NVMe Space
    NETWORK 40Gbit Uplink - 10TB incl.

    Thanked by 1nillionaire
  • gatewaysentryllcgatewaysentryllc Member, Patron Provider

    @nillionaire said:
    Update: open to increase my budget EDIT: to around $35–40/mo for a true dedicated-core KVM VDS if the network/provider requirements are met - the $25 ceiling is probably a bit too tight for that combo.

    Send us a DM!

  • SKRIMESKRIME Member, Patron Provider

    Hey @nillionaire,

    Going through your list. Monthly to start with no setup fee, PayPal available, and our billing runs on our own panel with PayPal as a checkout option.

    Your spec as a VDS in Eygelshoven, NL, meaning 6 cores on AMD EPYC Zen 3 Milan with ECC DDR4, 16 GB RAM and 200 GB NVMe in RAID 1, comes to 26.51€/mo. As a regular VPS the same build is 20.39€/mo, or 18.35€/mo with code LET10.

    Traffic has no monthly volume at all, no counter and no per-GB overage. DDoS protection is included, 1 IPv4 plus an IPv6 /64.

    Configurator: skri.me/epyc-config
    Looking Glass: skrime.eu/network / AS215365
    Test IPv4: 77.90.60.30 | Test IPv6: 2a09:3f00:3000::cafe

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