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Black Friday strategy: one bigger VPS, or a few small ones?
With Black Friday coming up, I'm trying to decide how to spend a small budget, and I'd like to hear how people here think about it.
My use case is mixed: I want one box to learn and break things on, and I'd also like to run a couple of small personal projects (a small site, a few services) that shouldn't die just because I broke the playground.
Option A: one bigger box (something like 3–4 cores / 6GB RAM) and split it into projects on a single machine. Simpler to manage, better specs per dollar — but everything shares one IP, one point of failure, and my learning mistakes can take the projects down with it.
Option B: two or three small cheap boxes (1–2GB each), one purely for learning, the others for the small projects. More isolation and more IPs to play with — but more panels, more renewals, and each box is weak on its own.
For those who've been through a few Black Fridays: which way did you go, and did you regret it? Is there a price point where the small boxes stop making sense?
Thanks for any war stories.
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Why not all 🤑 big vps to run your "prod" app, medium vps to play around, small vps to idle.
Big VPS with $7/year
Strategy: if you get good deals you take them, of course only if you have a use case for them, as day by day you will see good deals disappear.
Small VPSes generally manage to come with bigger discounts, proportionally, than large VPSes. So I prefer small. This is because hosts know that a 1c1g10g that they sell for 80% off is most likely going to end up idling and won't cost the provider much, but a 4g16g200g that they sell will probably be put into production and pushed hard and sold at a serious loss.
That's the same reason providers often disallow upgrading or merging promo plans.
no VPS, new sneakers and sex toys, they bring more joy and won't renew the prices to a higher one next year
Option B. Never one point of failure. And use several vps providers, all have their pros and cons.