My main use currently is a modded Minecraft server. But I want a VPS over one of those Minecraft host specifically because I plan on messing around with docker containers later and hosting my own Lemmy instance. Currently I have an openVZ server from TNA hosting because it was like $50 a year. But it’s not powerful enough for the Minecraft modpack.

So what VPS provider would you lot recommend?

  • GeekRoomAdmin@www.geekroom.techEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve used EthernetServers .com and they have had good support, good support response times, and overall good service. I would gladly work with them again.

  • Kng@feddit.rocksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Just an FYI getting a vps or dedicated server that is fast enough for Minecraft modpacks is going to be fairly expensive. It might be cheaper to get shared hosting for the MC server and a separate vps for the docker stuff.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Or if you have reliable home internet, just get/reuse a small PC and host at home.

      But if you don’t have a ton of users, you can host on a pretty cheap VPS.

      • Kng@feddit.rocksEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Also if you do go this route and are concerned about privacy and security you can get a cheap vps then setup a VPN (wireguard probably) on the vps and have your home server connect to that. Then you can forward the vps ports to the VPN IP of your home server. This means that you don’t need to have port forwarding or even a dedicated IP at home and users don’t get your home IP. Keep in mind you need a vps that is relatively close to your house to keep the latency down as this setup will add twice the latency between home and the vps to the connection.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m reasonably happy with Hetzner, except the recent gutting of transfer quotas in their non-EU data centers. They’re still super competitive though, so I’ll probably stick with them.

    I have no idea about Minecraft hosting though.

  • AxumEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I just swapped from ssdNodes to MassiveGRID and I’m pretty happy with them so far (I’m sure there are much better VPS hosts out there). They just extended the sale they posted on lownedboxes through the weekend, so if you pay for 3 years, you get a 4th for free and you also lock-in the pricing for after that 4 year period, too. This is the thread.

    If you do decide to order (before Monday) make sure you sign up and make a post in the lowendbox forum thread to get your extra year.

    The only real downside to them is they only offer 1Gbps connections for right now (they’re upgrading so you can order multi-Gbps connections in the future), but I’m able to max out the connection: http://i.xno.dev/u/6ZM52h.png

    These are the specs: http://i.xno.dev/u/qJeLjE.png And this is proof of the 4th year: http://i.xno.dev/u/0xN6Z0.png

    So I ended up paying $141.28 for 4 years which is $2.94/mo. Very worth it, IMO considering the specs as something comparable on DigitalOcean is $48/mo.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Ya, like I said. I jumped on them because of the price. The hardware isn’t the most powerful in the world, but to run my hosted services it’s been excellent so far. I’m super happy and I’m paying next to nothing which is great.

        Now my domain costs more than my hosting T__T

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        That’s what I said. I liked ssdNodes too, but they’re much more expensive. I generally troll around lowendbox every now and again for good deals and when I saw this one I checked it out and decided to take the plunge. I like them so far.

        Disk read/writes are a little slow because they use ceph volumes for H/A storage, but there are tons of benchmarks in that lowendbox thread. I highly recommend you check them out before you order and make sure they’ll be good enough for you. But if they are, should be a good value.

        I have a dashboard running here for my VPS: https://dash.xno.dev/

        It’s running docker with a few services: http://i.xno.dev/u/aDsmTX.png along with a caddy-reverse proxy. Handles it really well.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Before I grew enough spare capacity at home to self host our family’s server, I was using MCPro hosting. It was fine and at the time, cheap. I understand they’ve been bought by Apex now though. No experience with them.

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve had a good experience with RamNode, and very little limitations in what I can do.

    They used to be headquartered in Atlanta, GA (with servers in all major countries/cities) but were recently bought out by another slightly larger provider. I haven’t had any negative experiences since the buy out.

    https://ramnode.com/

    I have 3 minecraft servers running on one VPS at RamNode (it’s a dedicated server, not shared). One is vanilla, one is a heavy tech mod, and the other is a heavy RPG mod. People come and go all the time, no issues. $50/month, though. Note that minecraft is not the only service running on it. It gets very heavily utilized for many, many things.

    RamNode will kick you in the ballsac if you try pirating with them, though.