When I got into self hosting, I started with a cheap dedi, and deployed as many things as I could, and there were hiccups with keeping everything updated, and rare hardware failures like HDD dying. On

OP is self hosting apps, you know stuff like Plex, git, web server. Probably on cheap dedis

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If you need more space it’s cheaper to choose Optimal or Maximal plan

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Cents? 500mb for example are 2,87$ per month which isnt that cheap

Thanks for you explanation. What I actually want is a budget storage server, and that's it. I want it to be cheap, because I am a student and there's little income.

Your customers? So you put production stuff on a cheap VPS without any disaster recovery plan? There should be a disaster recovery button somewhere

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Hetzner has some affiliation with government IIRC so they can be extremely cheap.

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* Launch with a decent shared hosting provider. Depending on the quality and provider... your shared hosting account might be or will be faster than a cheap VPS.

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https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/179736/i-need-to-find-a-cheap-vps-provider

Some providers offer good value for money, but questionable bad practices, so if the price is worth it to you tune your expectations, example Pulsedmedia, with cheap storage, but some people here comp

* If your priority is 'cheap! cheap! cheap!' you'd almost certainly be better off renting a dedi with enough drive bays (i.e. 2+ HU) from a provider who's willing to slide in any drives you send in, p

Yep, never had an issue using it with cPanel for 8-9 years. Only tried DirectAdmin on my VPS because cheaper + year. Granted it's being retired August 1st, 2023.

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Cheap Hetzner VPS + Hetzner BX11 Storage Box works for me.