My budget is 5$ a month but I would prefer to go under it. I would want to have upgrade options in case I needed a server for something else and I would like to have multiple ip’s. I live in poland, so I would prefer to have servers nearby. I also have 1Gb internet, so I would prefer something that supports it.
Check out https://lowendbox.com , I’ve been using racknerd for several years now, mine is a 20G SSD, 1c,1.5G, 1Gb port with a dedicated IP, 1TB/mo KVM at ~$16/year, they even have a cheaper options with less ram.
Edit: for EU, they now offer servers in France.
Hetzner, I would second that. But OP, please be aware that IPv4 IP’s are now rather expensive due to exhaustion and are around an avg of $2-4 per IP with most providors. You will be hard to even get two within your budget alone, without including the VPS recorces.
Just my two cents.
IONOS 1 € / 2 USD VPS
Unlimited traffic up to 1 Gbit/s
1 vCore
1 GB RAM
10 GB Disk
https://www.ionos.com/servers/vps
To weak for netbird, but more than enough for vanilla wireguard.
And IONOS has a nice firewall in the web ui. The do not offer snapshots
And by Gb i mean the one with a small b, so it’s 125MB per second and 1Gb per second
Oracle ‘free tier’ ARM instance on Pay-As-You-Go plan. Will be free providing you don’t go over 10TB per month egress traffic. ‘Up to’ 4gig bandwidth but tbh I rarely get that much over 1.
Ignore the ‘but Oracle bad’ crowd. If you don’t like them just use them even harder, they’re not getting a dime from you treat them like shit for all I care.
Ignore the ‘but they delete your server’ crowd. It’s literally only running a VPN, if the host ever gets taken away just move on to your second-choice from this posts suggestions.
I’ve used Ramnode for a while and it was good. Tech support was very responsive. Massive (cheap) series VPS’ may fit your budget. I also installed OpenVPN to KVM vps. They have some servers in NL too.
But, even they offered 1 Gb connection in the past, I don’t think they still do. Need to check.
I would get the cheapest ($2/month) VPS from BuyVM if your just using it for VPN. You have the option to upgrade to more if you want in the future too.
Ive been using scaleway for a number of years now; they have servers in Warsaw and prices are reasonable. Their support is also rather good, from the times I’ve needed it
Hetzner. Cheap, upgradeable, additional ip’s if needed
lowendbox.com or lowendtalk.com
You can find VPS for $10 per year. They will be pretty limited so keep that in mind if you plan on using them for something else as well.
What are you trying to accomplish? A VPN to your home network, or a VPN to proxy traffic out to other sites that may not be accessible/legal in your country?
If it’s the latter, most VPSes have anti-abuse teams and will more than likely shut you down if they get legal requests to do so.
In any case, I would highly recommend you use WireGuard, or some variant, it’s pretty easy to set up, and has very low overhead.
Running a VPS on OVH, Germany based. $5/m.
I think alot of the vps at that point won’t support the networking module required, say for openvpn tun, but there will be a couple I am sure.
For generally vps use historically I have had good luck with digital oceans droplets, but not sure they will allow the vpn stuff
Reconsider using wireguard, look into XTLS/vless, and your hardware requirements drop 5-fold.
Racknerd has been great for me too. I was skeptical because of the cost but they have been bulletproof. I even got on their double bandwidth deal last year
Thanks for letting now they have now France DC !
I just checked, but the price was a disappointment. For 1G ram, 2 cores, it’s $18/monthly. I would look for a lower price.
I just want 1 ip for now but I would want another one in the future.
Are they torrent friendly?