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Thank you everyone for the answers so far. I am on a managed Wordpress at $18, they handle updates for me. If I move to a $5-10 VPS I need to learn security updates myself? That sounds stressful for a bakery site.
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Pretty much. Or you pay someone, which puts you back at $18. Managed WP has its place. My $0.66/mo box is only cheap because my time is free and I enjoy the tinkering. For a business, factor in your hourly rate.
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Self-hosting WordPress is not hard. One cron job for updates, fail2ban, done. People pay $18 for hand-holding because they fear the terminal. The fear is the product.
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I do fear the terminal. My flower shop site went down for 6 hours last year because I clicked something wrong in cpanel. $18 feels like insurance.
What provider? I want to benchmark against my current $9/year NAT. Need numbers.
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RackNerd Black Friday 2022. Stock long gone. The NAT lineup moves fast, check LowEndBox in November.
Power's expensive in Lyon, home server's dead to me. Cloud at €4 with Hetzner or Scaleway, that's the price of a coffee and a sandwich. The "enterprise-grade" at $40 is for companies spending other people's money.
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Or for businesses where 4 hours of downtime costs more than a month of proper infrastructure. Not everyone optimizes for price. Some optimize for risk.
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Risk-adjusted return. I ran the numbers. For my workload, triple-redundant at $40 versus single-instance at $4, the break-even on expected downtime value is somewhere around $800/hour revenue at risk. My sites make beer money. Single instance wins.
You people with your break-even spreadsheets. I've got a client who went from $5/mo to $0/mo when the owner died and nobody knew where the VPS was. Proper contracts, proper invoices, proper business continuity. That's what $40 buys you: a phone number that answers and a company that exists in 3 years.
