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What's your actual use case for your cheapest VPS?

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Jonas

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Berlin

#1

OP here, cheapest VPS is $6/yr from CloudCone (https://cloudcone.com)

  • Runs unbound for my home network
  • Also secondary NS for a friend's domain
  • That is literally it
  • Used to run wireguard but moved that to router

Wondering what everyone else does with these tiny boxes
Please share

garykwh

Member

Inference on a Budget

#2

Lol I tried running a 7B on a 1GB VPS once. Ngl it was not good. Swapped to disk, 40 tok/s became 0.3 tok/s. Now I just use cheapest box for inference scheduling, actual LLM lives on proper GPU box.

$3/mo scheduler > $200/mo idle GPU. math checks out.

CUDA cores are my love language
pieter_rtm

Member

#3

As said, specs matter.

  • 1 vCPU, 512MB RAM
  • 10GB SSD
  • 500GB traffic
  • Uptime monitoring for 14 client sites — I use https://healthchecks.io
  • Alert relay to PagerDuty
  • Cost: €2.50/month

Dry humor: it has never paged. Either everything works, or monitoring is broken. Both are fine.

Containers before it was cool
RA

Member

#4

I run IRC bouncer on 128MB box from Hostinger and I have not restarted it in 847 days and I forgot the root password and I am not touching it ever again

center807

Member

1 #5

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nerdbann

Member

DNS Propagator

#6

Check your resolver

$ dig +short @cloudcone.com elena.ircbouncer.test

TTL 86400? Propagation would take a day if you migrate. OP's secondary NS is fine but primary should be 300s minimum. I trace routes for strangers, this one adds 4ms via Vultr vs 11ms via Time4VPS. Your DNS server deserves better peering.

HA

Member

#7

Scheduler on cheap box is smart, I do similar

nerdbann

Member

DNS Propagator

#8
Jonas said:
Runs unbound for my home network

Same here but with Knot Resolver. The 512MB boxes from Hetzner handle it fine, though I had to disable DNSSEC validation to keep memory under control. Not ideal but it's just for blocking lists and local overrides anyway.

Has anyone tried running their own root hints instead of using the default root servers? I keep meaning to set that up but never get around to it.

Izmir

Member

#9

Eight days quiet is a long time for this forum.

Jonas said:
Cheapest VPS is $6/yr from CloudCone
I run a similar setup on a $2/mo Contabo box in Nuremberg. Recursive DNS for three apartments, plus a tiny WireGuard endpoint for my parents' smart TV. The 512MB limit is the real enemy, not CPU. One thing I never see mentioned: I use the leftover traffic quota to pull Debian security updates for a few local machines. Might as well use the pipe. Anyone else doing off-label bandwidth usage?

everseoul

Member

#10

12 days quiet, guess I'll break it

Jonas said:
Runs unbound for my home network

Same provider actually, same tier too. Mine runs a Valheim server for 3 friends, peaks at 6 players. Had to tune the hell out of it, garbage collection every 15 min, world backup to S3 (well, GreenCloudVPS's object thing, https://greencloudvps.com) at 4am when nobody's on

CPU sits at 80% constantly, RAM is a bloodbath, but it's been up for 8 months and cost less than one pizza so far

Your unbound setup sounds way more sensible though

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