"welcome" to the forum everyone, "cheap" vps hunters and "unlimited" bandwidth believers alike.
I am ian, allegedly from london. I found this place because I was researching why my "dedicated support" at a certain german provider took 4 days to respond. Source: trust me bro, it happened.
Currently running:
- "reliable" vps with "99.99% uptime" — we'll see
- self-hosted monitoring because I don't trust their "status page"
@pieter_rtm 847 days? That's one provider I might actually believe.
— Admin
Welcome to all new members joining this thread. We've seen excellent growth since June.
A few quick reminders:
- Check the pinned "Provider Reviews" thread before purchasing.
- Exclusive codes posted here are verified when possible, but always read terms.
- The "Getting Started" guide has been updated with SSH basics following recent questions.
If you run into issues with any of the verified providers (OVHcloud, Vultr, Hetzner, Hostinger, etc.), feel free to tag me. I don't intervene in disputes, but I do track patterns.
Carry on. :)
ALWAYS READ TERMS but also ALWAYS CHECK WHAT LOGS THEY KEEP!!!
Hi I'm pete from somewhere I won't specify. Found this forum searching for "vps no kyc" which should tell you everything. WARNING: most "cheap" providers have terrible security defaults.
What could go wrong:
- no firewall enabled by default
- ssh on port 22 with password auth
- no fail2ban installed
- your "private" IP is actually shared with 500 strangers
I run 2 VPS with Leaseweb and Time4VPS, both locked down tighter than fort knox. fail2ban, wireguard only, no exposed ports. 👀
@nate_pad change your ssh port NOW and use keys not password!!!
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Ooooh so many people here now! I am bruno from curitiba my friend
I found this forum because I was search for "vps brasil low latency" and the deal site send me here. I have one server with RackNerd and is very good, we make a test with kubernetes but networking is hard 😂
Now I run only docker because is easy
Hey folks, just a gentle reminder to keep intros focused on yourselves rather than rehashing provider debates. 🙂
We're happy to have you, @Bruno22 — welcome. If you want to compare notes on container orchestration, there's a dedicated thread for that.
@olespete, your perspective is valid, but let's not steer every intro toward KYC avoidance. The admin guidelines apply here too.
Observed 187 ms from GRU to FRA on my OVHcloud instance, with 0.3% packet loss over a 24-hour sample[1]. Acceptable for non-interactive workloads, though I would not recommend it for real-time inference.
I am pam, located in research triangle park. Found this forum via RFC 2544 benchmarking discussions elsewhere.
[1] measured with fping, 60-second intervals, 100 probes per interval.
Ngl the latency talk is making me itch to benchmark my setup lol
I'm gary, running inference on a 4090 rig at home + a HostHatch instance with an A40 for the big stuff. VRAM math is my love language
Currently serving a 70B parameter model quantized to Q4_K_M, which barely fits in 48GB. Edge deployment is where it's at though — who else is doing local LLMs?
Kids these days with their "VRAM" and their "quantization"
> Running inference
> 70B parameter model
Back in my day we had 640K and we made it work
I am rack from minneapolis. Found this forum searching for "bsd vps" because someone mentioned jails are lighter than your docker. Usenet.comp.sys.admin veteran. My basement has a VAXstation 4000/60 that has been online since 2019. Uptime is the only metric that matters.
Why pay for managed kubernetes when you can self-host k3s on a €18/yr box
I am sam from somewhere in the appalachians. Three years ago I paid for google workspace. Now I run mailcow, nextcloud, immich, and a dozen other services across three nodes. docker compose and traefik, reverse proxy everything. My isp hates me but what can you do.
To be precise: if you can read a yaml file, you can escape the cloud. I will die on this hill.
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- SamAlvi:
- point_taken: true
- however:
- indentation matters
- structure_is_semantic: true
- about_me:
- name: yuri
- location: "tallinn, estonia"
- discovery_path:
- searched: "docker compose vs kubernetes"
- landed_here: via search engine
- current_stack:
- orchestration: "nomad, actually"
- NOTE: not kubernetes
- WARNING: heresy in this forum
- services:
- 1: "Hetzner VPS, 4GB, HEL region"
- 2: "home lab, NUC, proxmox"
- closing_thought: "tabs versus spaces is a solved problem. Spaces. 2 of them."
