Best cheap inux host?

rexehuk

rexehuk

rexehuk

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Hey guys,

Been with TSOHOST for a while now running a website, and looking to maybe reduce costs, but mainly I want to move to managing the box myself.

Who would you recommend that will give me a linux box (CentOS) for around £5 a month?

I was going to spool up an AWS micro server, but it seems costs have gone up which is very sad to see, was my natural instinct to try first. One year EC2 micro would be £120.00, and if I stuck R53 on top would be an extra £6.

I want full control of the box, so that I can install memcached and so forth.
 
Utilise a reserved t2.nano which would cost you $56.94 a year which at current exchange rate would be £38.26 per annum (£3.19pm). Obviously there are costs on top of that, bandwidth etc, but i can't see it hitting £120
 
Spammeh said:
Utilise a reserved t2.nano which would cost you $56.94 a year which at current exchange rate would be £38.26 per annum (£3.19pm). Obviously there are costs on top of that, bandwidth etc, but i can't see it hitting £120
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That's a good shout, never thought about the pricing scales when you buy upfront.

Only thing I'm not sure of is the RAM, only is a small time website so might be fine.
 
I've got a 1GB Ubuntu host running Apache (with memcached) for Roundcube, Postfix with ClamAV and a few other milters (PostGrey, SpamAssassin etc), TeamSpeak and a couple of other bits. It's tight, but doable.
 
Vultr is one of my favorite hosts. I have a few VPS with them all with pretty good performance.

Alternatively if you don't mind not having it in the UK you could try out Ramnode which is slightly cheaper but still offers good performance and reliability.
 
I've still got a lot of credit on my Digital Ocean account, if you want to setup a VPS to try for a few months feel free.

You'll essentially get an IP and full root access
 
I've been using bhost for the last year after they ran a half price promotion and have had no issues. The half price (for life) deal is currently running again so quite reasonable.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
I've still got a lot of credit on my Digital Ocean account, if you want to setup a VPS to try for a few months feel free.

You'll essentially get an IP and full root access
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Cheers Jim, that's really kind. I don't want to use your credit though, I would feel bad!

For now, just waiting to get new site done. Decided to take the plunge and redo it all with laravel!

Seems tsohost will let me change the root directories, but can't install memcached which isn't really a big deal for now. So will maybe stick with them for a few months before spinning up the Amazon cloud.
 
I use Digitalocean for any small VPS i might require mainly for testing purposes generally for my case though.

Used Vultr also in the past that are great.

Don't you get a free year with Amazon for the small boxes?
 
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