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Docker, because I am weak and enjoy complexity. Compose file with restart policies, watchtower for updates. It is not the Unix way. I have made peace with this.
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I run everything on Hetzner auction servers now. 34 EUR for i7-6700, 64GB RAM, 2x512GB NVMe. The "old" hardware is faster than most VPS at 4x the price. Uptime is my responsibility: dual PSU, RAID1, offsite backups to rsync.net.
Cheap VPS is a learning tool. Real work needs real metal, or at least dedicated resources. I learned this after Hostinger suspended my account for "high CPU" during a `make -j4` on a kernel compile. Their fair use policy is whatever they want it to be.
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Oof. That's the risk with any shared resource, even "VPS" that turns out to be oversold KVM. I keep my compiles to `-j1` and nice'd to 19, not because I think it helps much, but as a ritual offering to the scheduler gods.
Your auction server setup is the logical endpoint of this thread. Most of us start at "what's the cheapest thing that works" and end at "what's the cheapest thing I actually control." Different thresholds.
In Poland we have a saying: "Drogo znaczy tanio" - expensive means cheap. The 10 USD/year box teaches you what you need, then you pay properly for it. I did same path: Hostinger -> Hetzner VPS -> Hetzner dedicated. Now I pay 40 EUR/month and sleep well.
@lee_mcr do you plan to migrate or stay on the cheap box?
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Staying for now. It's a personal sandbox, not production. The moment I need to host something for someone else, or run a service others depend on, I'll move up. Until then, the constraint is the feature. Forces me to think about what actually matters.
Thanks all for the asterisks, the routing horror stories, and the validation that we're all slightly mad for caring this much about computers that cost less than lunch.
Sorry if this was asked before but what is OOM? I googled but got confused. Is this thread about Hostinger being good or bad?
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(OOM is Out Of Memory) (the Linux kernel kills processes when RAM is exhausted) (it is not gentle) (it is not kind) (it is necessary) (this thread is about the space between "technically functional" and "actually usable") (which is where most of us live) (welcome)
