You can find non flash deals, 1 CPU 1 RAM 10 GB disk for 12 bucks per year on LET. If you stick to US they are even more cheaper. Are those considered promotion? Are these packages allowed to have dow

I think cheap services can use low-end outdated hardware and have limited service support, but that at least needs to ensure that the server is normal, right?

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No, I am happy with my idle server with Hosteroid so far. I didn't mention any single provider when I said that (and I have like some cheap servers from 7-8 providers from LET)

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No, you should accept downtime or pay for a very high availability system - that extra money would be for varying amounts of “engineering effort” (eg multiple fairly cheap VPSes with DNS load balancin

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Okay so let's discuss about this. If you are paying 10 bucks a month for a server I believe it's still cheap and it deserves like 1 hour downtime per week.

it really isn’t reasonable to expect or demand a single cheap machine to have high uptime, ultimately.

For what I want - China optimised, this really is a fantastic deal at this price. It's kind of a shame that their packages just increase number of cores and disk space and don't increase bandwidth unt

=== Benchmark & review, round 2 - HongKong China-optimized vs normal cheapie ===

What I love the most is, you can add subdomains of a Cloudflare hosted domain i.e. sub.example.com as domains with Digital Ocean DNS. If you have the Digital Ocean API set up, it will install the site

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@fxdjclub Besides, I used to have VPS from ReadyIDC, which is also cheap and reliable. They offer unlimited bandwidth@400Mbps and also have Intel and AMD CPUs.