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Looking for a Reliable VPS Provider – 8 vCPU / 16GB RAM / 200GB Storage (~$150/year)
Our company is planning to deploy an overseas business platform on a VPS, and I've been assigned to find a suitable provider.
We're looking for a VPS with roughly the following specifications:
- CPU: 8 vCPU cores
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 200GB
- Budget: Around $150/year
We're hoping to find a reasonably priced VPS that offers good stability and reliability, with minimal downtime.
Price is an important consideration, but long-term stability and uptime are our top priorities. We'd rather avoid providers that frequently experience outages or oversell their resources.
Could anyone recommend reliable VPS providers that offer good value for money? Personal experiences and recommendations from long-term users would be especially appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Hey! We can accommodate this with our Budget VPS lineup in Toronto, Canada!
Our Budget VPS nodes run on Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 processors (or equivalent), with DDR4 RAM, SSD storage, and KVM virtualization.
We'd be happy to put together a custom configuration with:
Our normal pricing starts at $1.50/GB RAM per month, which would be $288/year for 16GB RAM.
However, we'd be happy to price match your $150/year budget on a recurring basis!
Feel free to shoot me a message, and I'll get a custom order arranged for you!
https://enderhost.co
Hi @qyyyy,
We'd be happy to offer you a reliable KVM VPS in Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on long-term stability, consistent performance, and no resource overselling.
We understand that your budget is around $150/year, but that's unfortunately a little too low for the resources you're looking for, especially when stability is a priority.
If you have some flexibility with your budget, here's what we can offer:
CPU: 8 vCPU
RAM: 16GB DDR5
Storage: 200GB NVMe
Network: 10Gbps Shared Port
Bandwidth: Unmetered
IPv4: 1 Dedicated IPv4
IPv6: Included
Virtualization: KVM
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Price: $250/year
We believe it's better to provide properly allocated resources and dependable performance rather than compete on price by overselling.
If you're interested, just open a sales ticket at https://venocloud.com and mention this LowEndTalk offer. We'll be happy to set everything up for you.
Best regards,
VenoCloud
Thanks for your offer, @enderhost.
I'm interested in the $150/year deal. Just to confirm, will it include the exact specifications listed below, with no reductions?
Also, is $150/year a recurring price, or just for the first year?
We're looking for a long-term provider, and our company may purchase more VPS instances in the future. Would you be able to offer a long-term discount for future purchases as well?
Thanks!
Yessir, and it would be a recurring price.
Yep we can do lifetime/recurring discounts on future instances as well!
Thanks for your offer, @venocloud.
$250/year is unfortunately above our budget. What's the best price you could offer for the exact same configuration?
If you can get closer to $150/year, we'd be happy to consider it. Otherwise, no worries.
Thanks!
Just a quick heads up, 8 vCPU cores can vary A LOT in actual power. In other words, it's like saying you need "8 men for a construction job". They could be 20 years olds who go to the gym regularly or they could be 80 year old men confined to a wheelchair. All "8 vCPU cores" really means is you'd get 8 of them.
I have a lot of VPSes and some of the cores are painfully slow. Others are blazingly fast, so before committing to a year purchase, you want to know which of those 8 men you'd be getting.
The best way I've found to do that is to get a yabs (the provider should have it available) and then compare all the numbers. It'll show speed of the drives, speed of its internet connection, and how fast those 8 cores really are.
Also, black friday will be here in two weeks and you'll see a lot of sales.
@CoolGeek Thanks for the heads-up! That's actually a very useful point.
I hadn't considered how much CPU performance could vary between different VPS providers, even when they advertise the same number of vCores.
Our company's priority is CPU performance first, followed by RAM, core count, and storage capacity. We're flexible with 4–8 vCores as long as the actual performance is good.
I'll definitely ask providers for YABS results before making a purchase.
Are there any particular CPU models or server platforms you'd recommend looking for when choosing a VPS for long-term business use?
Thanks again for the advice!
Then don't offer?
Did he want DDR5 markup? you keep posting on everything regardless if you even remotely close... stop
Enderhost above you is perfect example of how to do it correctly either you can match / get close.
Your 80% over budget.
Depends on your workload, most don't need high clock count for your typical tasks, this only matters when the extra ms counts.
Enderhost offer is fairly good here but i'd ask for a more recent EPYC :P
Another note is sadly it gets more confusing, because even if its a good CPU if there are to many people using that CPU it can perform worse than a 2012 chipset without any steal.
Unsustainable deals for real-workloads are risky, as they are often over-sold although i doubt DDR5 is needed for your application so i'd avoid those offers, with the AI tax.
U can't define it based on models and platforms, cuz it fully depends on the provider and the limitations they apply to each node. So it's really up to the YABS results/Provider. For the long term, u can go with @onidel @oloke , @servarica_hani, and @DediRock with their i9 servers. Hmm, they might even offer u a custom plan since they don't have the exact specs you're looking for.
8 men in a developing country differ greatly from 8 men in California.
YABS / GeekBench shows how well they work in full capacity.
When you try to have your 8 California men work at full capacity for more than the legal hours, the state would quickly shut you down.
@qyyyy
We can offer you your requested specifications with a custom plan as below...
Location: Los Angeles
8 vCPU
16GB RAM
160GB SSD
10TB Bandwidth
1Gbps
1IPv4
$160/yr
DM me for custom order link if interested.
If I had to give a best-for-your-first VPS matched with your listed requirements, I'd go with Advin Servers @advinservers .
Go to https://advinservers.com/vps and then select KVM Extreme in the left column, switch to a location with a green dot above the "Deploy" buttons (it defaults to Germany), then the best match I think for what you've said is
KVM Extreme 2 - 4vCPU, 8GB ram, 256GB storage for $16/month.
It's only 4 vCPU but the EPYC processors are SUPER fast and it's a monthly term. If you need to adjust, you have flexibility compared to a 1 year purchase.
With the "Extreme" choices at Advin, you can max out the CPU if you want (some providers have a "fair use" policy which limits how much you can use the cores. Sort of like living in an apartment, "you can use the swimming pool, but you can't stay at the swimming pool all day.")
It's all a bit complicated to navigate at first, but you'll get it figured out.
Hey @qyyyy,
Since you're flexible on 4 to 8 cores, our EPYC 16G fits your budget, but it has 100 GB of storage, not 200 GB. It's a KVM with 4 shared cores on AMD EPYC (Zen 3 Milan), 16 GB ECC DDR4 RAM and 100 GB NVMe in RAID 1 for 12.99€/mo, or 11.69€/mo with code LET10. On a 12-month term it comes down to 10.52€/mo with LET10, and the LET10 discount stays on every renewal as well.
If CPU performance comes first, our RYZEN 16G runs on AMD RYZEN 9 9950X with DDR5, 4 shared cores, 16 GB RAM and 150 GB NVMe for 18.99€/mo, or 15.38€/mo on a 12-month term with LET10. That's above your budget, but it's the faster of the two.
For the YABS, our support can set up a 3-day test server, so you can run it yourself before committing to a year.
Both come with 1 IPv4, an IPv6 /64 and DDoS protection on IPv4. The servers are in SkyLink Datacenter in Eygelshoven, Netherlands, and traffic is unmetered with no monthly cap, on a 10 Gbps shared port.
Order: skri.me/epyc | skri.me/ryzen9950X
Test IPv4: 77.90.60.30 | Test IPv6: 2a09:3f00:3000::cafe
Looking Glass: skri.me/network / AS215365
AMD EPYC 7702
8 vCPU
16GB DDR4
200GB NVMe
10Gbps Shared Port
Bandwidth: 10TB
1 Dedicated IPv4
IPv6: /64
Virtualization: KVM
Dallas
$150 Year
Do you guys have a control panel to reinstall the OS now?
Virtfusion