I ran my own mail configuration (Postfix + Courier + enough anti-spam/anti-malware to use literally 1/2 of my RAM continually), Apache with probably a dozen sites (PHP, mostly WordPress or my custom sites from long ago) on it, a database server, some IRC bouncer software, iodine DNS tunneling, and a bunch of other crap. I had a server (Xen VPS and then a dedicated server) online for something like 10 years but realized that administering was occupying too much of my time (a few hours per week) and it was just too expensive ($40/mo). If you just have one VPS there’s not much difference between $2 and $5 a month, but since I have several, the costs do start to add up. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re making so little money off of it that they’d be prone to discontinuing it in the future. ![]() The absolute cheapest I’ve seen is a vultr VPS at $2.50/month, which only has an IPv6 address and isn’t available at all their data centers. $5/month seems to be the standard price across several VPS providers for their lowest-end VPS with a gig of RAM. That said, I’m paying somewhat more than $2/month, and I’m curious where you’ve been able to find that price. ![]() I actually have several such VPSs, since that allows me to make publicly available services I use in different social contexts, without someone being able to notice that my. and my. are both pointing at the same hosting provider IP address. I didn’t mention this in my below post, but I use the same trick of proxying services running on my physical hardware to a cloud VPS over wireguard, to avoid exposing my home IP address.
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