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.
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.
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.
I've been happy with racknerd. They usually run specials that are pretty reasonable: https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/
I did have one rather long outage of about 48 hours once. The host running my VPS had a nic fail. They got it fixed and it's been solid ever since.
Second racknard. If you Google Black Friday special, you'll find the page where you can order a VPS with four gigs of RAM for something like $50 a year. It's not a 12-month special either, you can renew it year after year.
I run docker containers there, a Red Dead redemption 2 server, etc. It's really useful commodity server to have around,
3rd racknerd -- but I just use the cheapest KVM deal in the geographic region I need it in. About $10/yr for single core older Xeons with 768M-1G RAM. Still though I've been very happy with them.
Is that enough resource to use as a VPN?
Works for me just fine but it doesn't see more than 3 users at a time if that.
Oracle Free Tier. Works like a charm for me for 2 years. Really free, really working. No matter what shit company Oracle is.
Just a PSA, never ever EVER request deletion of an Oracle free tier if there is any possibility you might want one in the future.
You can delete/remove instances or whatever as you desire, but you won't be able to get a second free tier account even if the first is completely deleted.
Did you upgrade your account to a paid one? I've read that this might help to precent from being deleted. Even with a paid-as-you-go account you're able to use the free tiers.
Their free tiers look nice, but I've read that your server must stay above X% CPU usage average to prevent deletion, is that true?
No.
I got one. It's just too slow for what I need and can't do webrtc because of a hardware limitation.
What are the specs like?
24gb memory and 4 OCPU . the CPU doesnt sound like much, but if its using the ampere back end and not the amd micro, the CPU performance scales up with demand (to a point).
I have two containers running, one using 16gb memory and another using 4gb, they each have one cpu and they perform fine for what they do.
Ok thanks not bad! How much storage?
Hmm... Let me look.
Edit: each instance gets 50gb boot volume, I can log in and confirm if you like.
Not bad for free. Appreciate you checking.
Do you know what is the transfer bandwidth limit on these machines? Wondering if they can be used for setting up a wireguard node.
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.
You can get a quad core ARM 24 gb ram vpn for free on oracle cloud on their free tier.
They refused my visa during the onboarding, a bit surprising
Credit card? Have things changed? I have two containers hosted there and I never gave mine.
Any caveats to it?
Just don't try to run huge amounts of bandwidth or try to pirate content on it and you'll be fine. It does need a credit card on file, but it cannot charge it unless you explicity disable free tier.
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.
Just tried massiveGRID and their VPS have massive issues. They randomly halt for a second to 5 seconds and just stops responding to any call. Sometime I randomly see a packet with 1000ms to 2000ms with no reason, while CPU usage is under 10% and the server is basically idling (on a simple ping).
This shit happens every minute or so, it's so annoying
Avoid.
This is mind-blowing to me. I've been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I've not had a single one.
This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: https://x0.at/daqx.png
The connection speed isn't stellar by any means, certainly well below the advertised--but they're shared VPS, so that's really to be expected. My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I'm paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I'm okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.
I'm looking hard for flaws but they're no better, but no worse than any provider I've ever had. 🤷♂️
You're not a dick at all! It seems a bit random. They've moved my VPS somewhere else and the issues are now more rare but still happen from time to time
What's the thing you use to visualize the ping? I'd like to set it up myself to check as well
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.
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.
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.
@secret300 Ethernetservers.com
Can confirm, genuinely good service and support at reasonable prices.
Silly question but isn’t using a VPS the exact opposite of “self hosted”?
The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.
Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.
The opposite of self-hosted would be managed service.
You run it yourself at your own location however you want it
Vs
Someone runs it for you at their location. However the want it
VPS is someone loans you a VM at their location that you run yourself however you want to.
It's still relevant to self-hosted because you still have to do all the work, you were just using their network, power, air conditioning, hardware and fire suppression. You're still in the hook for installs and patches, configuration, and software issues.
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