For our Gitlab runners, the metrics server, and the test server, we use Racknerd. For the production server, we use Contabo.
Racknerd costs about $10-30 per year per virtual machine. Racknerd runs crazy sales, such as black Friday's double bandwidth deals and free giveaways (https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182479). Over 1000+ pages of craziness on lowendtalk!
The only caveat we have with Racknerd is the lack of support as a terraform provider. Racknerd uses Solus, and unfortunately, we did not have access to the admin APIs, such as reinstalling instances. To solve this, we made a playwright library that automated installation and maintenance tasks on the Racknerd Solus control panel.
For Swiftpoll production, we went with a Contabo instance in their St. Louis data center. Contabo has support as a terraform provider with APIs to do just about anything you'd like. It works out of the box, and we didn't need to create anything hacky in Javascript, which we loved. Our only caveat is Contabo may charge "setup fees" when making changes to instances. Contabo costs about $9 per month and up.
We have been using Racknerd and Contabo for a year. So far, we did not encounter any problems. We keep our hosting costs under $50 a month. Downtime with either provider is super rare, and I don't remember when the last time it happened was. Both providers offer generous bandwidth measured in terabytes.
At Swiftpoll -- https://swiftpoll.net (The best polling app on the web! We promise!), we use a combination of Racknerd (https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/) and Contabo (https://contabo.com/en!)
For our Gitlab runners, the metrics server, and the test server, we use Racknerd. For the production server, we use Contabo.
Racknerd costs about $10-30 per year per virtual machine. Racknerd runs crazy sales, such as black Friday's double bandwidth deals and free giveaways (https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/182479). Over 1000+ pages of craziness on lowendtalk!
The only caveat we have with Racknerd is the lack of support as a terraform provider. Racknerd uses Solus, and unfortunately, we did not have access to the admin APIs, such as reinstalling instances. To solve this, we made a playwright library that automated installation and maintenance tasks on the Racknerd Solus control panel.
For Swiftpoll production, we went with a Contabo instance in their St. Louis data center. Contabo has support as a terraform provider with APIs to do just about anything you'd like. It works out of the box, and we didn't need to create anything hacky in Javascript, which we loved. Our only caveat is Contabo may charge "setup fees" when making changes to instances. Contabo costs about $9 per month and up.
We have been using Racknerd and Contabo for a year. So far, we did not encounter any problems. We keep our hosting costs under $50 a month. Downtime with either provider is super rare, and I don't remember when the last time it happened was. Both providers offer generous bandwidth measured in terabytes.