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I've been using Linode for a decade (or more) now without any issues. I'd encourage you to contact their support about this issue. Assuming you're on the up-and-up this sounds like a big and in sure they'd be happy to help.
If you decide not to go with Linode though I think Digital Ocean is a good alternative.
IIRC, they have been bought out in the last decade.
By Akamai, ya. I was devastated when I heard.
A vote for netcup.eu Very happy with them after a few years already.
I'm pretty happy with Digital Ocean if I need a temporary VPS because I can pay by the minute and the UI is great. Anything that I want to stay alive for more than a month or two, I do on a single 6-core VPS rented long-term from Netcup, a low-cost German provider, deploying with Docker and Traefik.
Netcup seems really interesting, thanks :)
Racknerd has VPSs starting at around $10/yr. Been using them to host my email/nextcloud/jellyfin proxies for a while now with no issues or unexpected downtime. They don't have any of Linode's advanced features, but they're pretty hard to beat price-wise.
You can also have a look at contabo as well.
That's odd. I personally like Linode and its intuitive interface.
I never even got to see the interface haha
I got cancelled too and chose Hetzner instead. Will not do business with a company that can't get their filters working decently.
I tried them, but got basically the same treatment as OP with Linode. They just closed my account.
Hetzner or linode closed your account?
Sorry, could have formulated it better. Hetzner did. I'm a happy customer of Linode. It seems they all have filters failing in different ways.
Yea i wonder why that is. It seems to be a standard
Vultr has some pretty cheap prices.. I like them
Hetzner is more affordable, but few locations
But they can ban you on registration too, happened to me and i was angry 😂
I have personally been using OVH for $1.05/month. This offer is only available for their new customers and also is only offered in certain regions as well. I've been using it for my personal small projects to host my frontend projects and also as VPN server as well. It is now more than a month since I've been using it and haven't had any issues so far.
Another platform I might suggest is Oracle cloud. They have a free VPS offer FOREVER. If you're register for the first time and their system gives you an error it's their "fair usage policy" of some sort where their system might think you're someone that's trying to abuse their free offerings(best not to waste time if it doesn't work the first time). If you do register tho, you might need to do a few research when you're starting out initially. The platform has lots of options and tools and it might get overwhelming if this is your first time. Nonetheless, I believe it is manageable tho. It just takes a little bit of time to get used to their interface.
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/ cloud.oracle.com
+1 for the Oracle solution. I use one for my public IP, and port forward over WireGuard to my home. They claim something like 480Mbps, but it's nowhere near that, at least for external traffic. But in any event I've been using it for a few months with no real complaints.
And yes, I fully appreciate the irony of trying to self-host services to get away from big corporations, but relying on Oracle to do so.
Should be noted that a lot of people had their Oracle accounts revoked for no reason.
People I know had their accounts terminated within 48 hours for 'inactivity'.
They also require you to constantly use the resources, the percentage gets changed whenever they want.
I just signed up to oracles free cloud service after watching a video where it was said it was always free, but the wording on oracle's site made it seem like its a trial. Are there two free options?
I assume you're referring to the two free instance you get with the x86 VMs. And that is correct. As far as I remember, they offer you two VMs with x86 1VCPU and 40GB of block storage minimum or you can create 5 VMs with ARM with CPUs with lots of cores and memory each having 40 GBs of storage(don't remember the exact use-case). If you want to know what you are getting, please read the doc I have attached for you for always free resources. They offer you free 200GB in total and the bandwidth they offer is 20TB/month with 1Gbps speeds for each VMs (I might be wrong tho. It's been a while since I've used their service). Also, in case you're wondering why I'm not using a free service like this is, I used one of their servers to pirate copyrighted material. They'll ban you without warning so read their terms of services and try not to be a fool like I am. https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#resources
Basically when I was registering it had some wording like "start your free trial now" but once I got into the dashboard there was a message that cleared things up. So I have a free trial of what I assume is a higher tier of their service, which upon running out will revert me back to the Always Free tier.
Racknerd. They're currently running a new year's promotion. They're reliable and inexpensive.
Another option is to use the free tier of Oracle cloud.
Yup, ended up going with oracle. Free is good for me, and im totally new to this so it doesnt really make a difference to me if theres a minor interface difference between 2 providers.
Thanks
It's pretty hard to beat Oracle Cloud's free tier Hosting.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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I'd disagree with this.
VPS is opposed to a dedicated server, and actually is a kind of shared hosting because as a VPS user you a allocated a 'share' of resources on a machine where others also have a 'share' of resources.
Shared housing more typically refers to simpler web hosting where multiple users have their website servers from shared hardware.