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I agree, many always start with the premise "hosting is hard", but maybe this was true 20 years ago, now hosting providers let you spin-up a server in a few clicks, have monitoring, alerts, automatic updates and more. The good part is that for 99.99% of the time, once you set-up a server it could keep on running without issues for many years.

I am not a sys-admin but I have used multiple hosting providers (shared, VPS, dedicated) and so far I never had a single server fail or suddenly stop working.



True, sadly shared hosting still limit with capped disk IO and bandwidth at a premium price which would be similar or more than competitive VPS in performance.

I'm still looking out for competitive VPS provider other than UpCloud if you have any recommendations.


Look at BuyVM, OVH (SoYouStart/Kimsufi), Netcup.eu. All very solid providers and I have servers/VMs with all of them.

..or even Oracle Cloud Always Free Tier (which gives you 2x 1G VMs)


I think the OCA Free Tier is for testing app. Sadly, none of those near to Singapore than a few including MaxKVM.


Vultr has a Singapore location and they have good service for very reasonable prices. Similarly to DO in quality/price/offerings perhaps.

And OVH Cloud I believe has Singapore location: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-sg/vps/vps-singapore/


I think that most of the VPS providers have similar prices, I personally use DigitalOcean as I really like their interface.


True, I have been comparing performance and long-term contract which I have research on shared hosts and VPS providers.


I like Linode personally.

No BSD options, but they've got a pretty good selection of Linux distros as ready made images.


I have Linode years ago and moved on when the pricing and performance weren't competitive as UpCloud.


Same, I have been using Linode for almost 10 years for small projects.




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