I don’t know if renting a dedicated server goes against the point of selfhosting but whatever.
Everyone seems to recommend hetzner on reddit because they are cheaper, but OVH seems to be much cheaper that hetzner for low end servers, especially the Kimsufi and So You Start ranges.
This is the server I was looking at with OVH:
CPU : Intel Xeon D1520 - 4c/8t - 2.2 GHz/2.6 GHz
Memory : 32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage : 4 x 2 TB HDD SATA Soft RAID
Public bandwidth : 250 Mbps
Price: £26.66 per month.
hetzner seems to start a lot higher with specs, but I don’t need 64GB of ram and a 1Gb/s internet connection, The instance I am posting this from is the lowest spec kimsufi possible with an intel atom and 4GB of RAM and that is running lemmy and mastodon fine.
Is there something else bad about OVH that I am missing? (other than the flammable servers)
I use Auction server from Hetzner and it’s amazing + you have 1 GBps connection in most of them :)
Jesus, on the higher end the value gets absurd. 128Gb of RAM with 2x8Tb hdds for €52.44 a month. Shame the lower end servers aren’t quite so good value. Maybe I should just find some more money