r/VPS

Hello, I’m looking for a great alternative to VPS Hetzner, I want to try Netcup for prod. Anyone had any suggestion?

Hi,

I have a VPS I have no use for anymore but I have already paid for the next 7 months, what should I do with it ?

Probably not the kind of thing you can resale, and mining crypto on it would yield nothing.

I’m currently using RackNerd’s 8 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2025) plan. It’s affordable and works well for my needs, but RackNerd doesn’t currently have servers available in Europe.
I’m looking for an EU-based VPS provider suitable for business use and compliant with relevant EU data-protection requirements. It’ll host one or two Linux-based projects, so I’m looking for:
• Around 8 GB RAM (not a deal breaker hosting 1-2 sites)
• A decent modern processor
• KVM virtualization
• Reliable uptime and network performance
• An EU data-centre location
• Clear GDPR/data-processing terms, ideally with a DPA available
• Pricing reasonably close to RackNerd’s promotional plans
I understand RackNerd’s Black Friday pricing may be difficult to match, but I’d appreciate recommendations for providers offering good value without sacrificing reliability.
Which EU VPS providers have you had a good experience with? Please include the location, approximate price, specifications, and any business/GDPR considerations I should know about. Currently
Paying $62.49 annually USD

Hey all,

I had purchased a VPS from OVH Cloud later realized that I bought a local VPS (not the one hosted in data center, these are the ones hosted near to the users/edge locations they say) which cannot be vertically scaled and outbound email ports won't be opened. We need to purchase VPS in data center but during the order placement journey there is no mention of it. A lot was hidden from the users. In fact, the customer support agents themselves were realized when I raised the request. Pity :(

I’m moving to a new website and want to choose the right server from the start so I don’t have to migrate everything again later because of limited resources.

I’m looking for a powerful VPS with plenty of cpu and ram fast nvme storage a stable network and high uptime. It’s also important that I can easily scale up the resources as the site grows.

Which VPS providers have you used for websites that could potentially have high traffic or heavy workloads? I’m mainly interested in real-world experience and a good balance between price and performance

I used to assume a slow website meant I needed a bigger server.

Now the first things I check are CPU usage, RAM, disk I/O load average and database performance. Most of the time the issue isn't the hosting plan, it's application, plugins or query that's using more resources than it should.

That simple habit has saved me several unnecessary upgrades and made troubleshooting much easier.

Has anyone else had similar experience?

StatLite showing application metrics and host CPU, memory, and disk usage

I run Spring Boot applications on small VPS instances and wanted basic monitoring without adding a full Prometheus/Grafana stack or sending telemetry to a hosted service.

So I built StatLite, a lightweight self-hosted dashboard that monitors host resources and Spring Boot Actuator metrics.

Current setup is intentionally pretty boring:

• single Go binary
• tracks host CPU, memory, and disk usage alongside application metrics
• SQLite storage
• roughly 10-15 MiB idle RSS in my testing
• no external database
• no telemetry service or account
• metrics stay on the VPS
• easy to move to another provider with the rest of the deployment

Right now the main integration is Spring Boot Actuator, so if an application already exposes Actuator metrics, StatLite can poll them without adding an agent or changing application code.

The goal isn't to compete with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc. Those are much more capable. I'm interested in the smaller case where you have one or a few VPS nodes and mostly want to know: is the app healthy, what is CPU/memory doing, are requests/errors increasing, and what happened over the last few hours or days?

I'm curious how people here handle this today.

For people running self-managed VPS instances, would something like this be useful? And outside Spring Boot, what applications or runtimes would you most want a lightweight dashboard like this to recognize out of the box?

GitHub: https://github.com/PVRLabs/statlite

Hi community

I am looking for 50tb+ server
Is there any affordable option in the market

Thanks in advance

Anyone having issues getting to their frantech servers?

Hi community

I am looking for a cheap vps with like 2 cpu and 2gb ram, but it should be completely prepaid, they shouldn't be able to send me a bill for the VPS.

Thanks in advance.

Just as the title said im looking for a VPS, Im looking to host a server for mostly video games or minimum 2VCPU and 4GB of ram, preferably asia if anyone have recommendations i would greatly appreciate it

Mostly: Vanilla/Heavily Modded Minecraft, Palworld, ARK, Terraria

I want to share my experience with iON Cloud, a Krypt-related hosting brand, because I think potential customers should know how they handled a long-term customer who had already prepaid for service.

I have been using this VPS since 2019. I originally signed up during an iON Cloud promotional offer, and I have been a customer for approximately seven years.

I never expected that after being a customer for so many years, this is how the company would treat a prepaid service.

What happened

My VPS was prepaid at $86.40/year.

After my most recent payment, the service was originally scheduled to remain active until:

January 27, 2027

However, while my prepaid service period was still active, the company unilaterally changed the terms of my service.

According to the support ticket they sent me on:

August 4, 2026 at 05:43

they changed:

Original expiration date: January 27, 2027

New expiration date: October 2, 2026

Original annual price: $86.40

New annual price: $552.00

I did not agree to these changes.

The issue isn't simply that the company increased its prices for future renewals.

The problem is that I had already paid for my existing service period, yet they changed the terms before that prepaid period had expired, including shortening the service expiration date and replacing the original pricing with a dramatically higher price.

The new annual price of $552 is more than six times what I had previously been paying.

After seven years as a customer, this is extremely disappointing

I have been using this service since 2019.

For approximately seven years, I remained a customer and continued paying for the service. I never expected that the company would eventually treat a long-term customer this way.

To me, this isn't just about the amount of money involved.

It's about trust and honoring a prepaid commitment.

If a customer pays for a service through January 27, 2027, I believe the provider should honor that paid period. If the provider wants to change its pricing or discontinue a legacy plan, that may be understandable for future renewals — but changing an already-paid service period without the customer's agreement is very different.

I find this extremely disappointing and, frankly, a serious breach of trust after being a customer for seven years.

I also tried PayPal

Because the original payment was made more than 180 days ago, I attempted to resolve the matter through PayPal, but PayPal would not accept the dispute because the transaction was outside its 180-day dispute period.

This creates a particularly frustrating situation:

The payment itself is old because I had been a long-term customer, but the material change to my service happened only recently, on August 4, 2026.

So I am essentially left with a situation where the payment is too old for PayPal's dispute system, even though the issue I am complaining about occurred months after the original payment.

What I am asking for

I am not asking for anything unreasonable.

I am asking the company to either:

Honor the original prepaid service period through January 27, 2027, or

Refund the unused portion of the service that I had already paid for.

At this point, I mainly want the company to acknowledge that changing the expiration date and terms of an already-paid service without the customer's agreement is not a reasonable way to treat a long-term customer.

Evidence

I have documentation showing:

My original payment

The original $86.40/year pricing

The original January 27, 2027 expiration date

The company's August 4, 2026 05:43 support ticket

The new October 2, 2026 expiration date

The new $552/year pricing

I can provide screenshots with sensitive account information redacted if anyone wants to see the timeline.

I'm posting this because I don't want other customers — especially people attracted by cheap promotional pricing — to assume that a prepaid legacy plan will necessarily be honored for its entire paid term.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with iON Cloud or Krypt, particularly with a legacy/promotional VPS plan being changed after it was already prepaid?

After seven years as a customer, I honestly never expected to have to write a post like this. I'm extremely disappointed by how this has been handled.

Hi,

Anyone know of a cheap VPS that has Port 25 open for outbound or can be requested AND allows to be used for a personal Email verification tool? For some they can open it or have it already open but still say their terms don't allow what I'm asking for, which is just the quick email verification SMTP conversation with the provider.

Basically the title.

I have been using AWS Lightsail for a long time. The only thing is that I have never explored any other options except GCP.

I have eyes on Hostinger, but it's expensive, but good overall.

What platform would be ideal if I want

8 GB ram,

4 vcpu

100 gb storage?

My main use case is to deploy applications, and sometimes play around with hobby projects, and play around with new tech on the vps itself.

Many people are recommending hostkey around here so I wanted to give it a try , oh boy .

It runs on super old E5 cpus , which are oversold quite noticeable steal time

Network port is oversold you will barely get 100 Mbps with your application and 200 Mbps raw speed on the VPS itself - bufferbloat is high due this

The IP geo location is wrong for Spain madrid ip address is Dubai lol for my

VPN need this ruins all my recommendation algorithm on social media etc

The installation reinstall time are very high super slow and buggy

The IP addresses are dirty used by Russian hackers and blacklisted

I'm thinking to get a refund

And the staff is hired from Russia quite a security risk

What is the best VPS for Roblox? With around 128GB Ram and stuff needed?

I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar with IONOS.

I had two VPS contracts with them that I stopped using years ago. More importantly, I still have the original IONOS cancellation confirmation emails from June 2024, clearly stating that both contracts were cancelled effective immediately in June 2024.

Now, more than two years later, IONOS suddenly generated six separate invoices on the same day ( three for each of those old VPS contracts ) and charged my card a total of around £100.

It gets stranger:

-Both invoice contract IDs match the contracts shown in my old cancellation confirmations.

-Both cancellation confirmations clearly say the contracts were cancelled in 2024.

-These VPS contracts no longer appear under Contracts & Subscriptions in my IONOS account.

-My account doesn't even have a Server & Cloud section anymore where I could access/manage these supposed VPS services.

-All six invoices suddenly appeared together rather than being billed normally each month.

After having so much problems with most VPN providers both paid and free providers.. I'm ready to open a vps and make my own vpn.. Any recommendations for who to go with and what to do? Would like my traffic to appear in Seattle WA and make it look like my traffic isn't going across a vpn.. I have a suspicion that my isp is throttling anything that looks like it's going across a VPN.. I don't want to spend tons per month and i want to not have a shared link like vpn services so I'm not constantly being throttled to 30mbps or below as well.. My isp also throttles videos to 2mbps or 480p quality so I'm trying to bypass that also.. Recommendations for what I can do and who to go with?

This project I'm working on can help you set up a brand new or existing VPS and have it ready for Minecraft hosting.

It can auto configure:

• UFW ports
• Caddyfile
• systemd services
• mod configs
• Key only SSH (optional by providing a public key)

all if you install Geyser, Simple Voice Chat, BlueMap..etc with the tool.

Upgrading a server

• Detects installed mods and updates them with your server (modrinth)

Works by simply pointing to a folder with Minecraft servers and then selecting an existing server.

Tool currently handles all MC versions from 1.20.1 to 26.2 (I could go lower) and has support for fabric, neoforge, forge, quilt and vanilla servers. Im hoping this project helps people get into more DIY server hosting or maybe save some money instead of giving it to dedicated MC hosts. The tool comes with hopefully clear instructions and guided selection screens. Still unsure? just click ok through the safe defaults.

If you are savvy enough, the tool can run headlessly, fully with arguments / flags. So you can automate server creation or updating with it.

(working on adding features for removing servers and also installing mods into existing servers)