What factors matter when choosing a VPS provider? (alien.top)

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Hey 👋🏻 I’m picking a VPS provider and could use some advice. What’s most important to you when choosing one?

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[-] NikStalwart@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

In no particular order:

Price (if looking to host something low value)
Price/performance (if longer-term)
Details of Fair Usage Policy
Bandwidth limits
Overlimit pricing
Location - proximity
Location - creepiness of government / jurisdiction
Reputation of the company - are they scummy? Do they oversell? Is their datacenter about to get yeeted? (cough Dedipath cough)
Are they bullshitting me with RAID 100000 PURE SSD STORAGE!!!!!

In fact, I actually prefer HDD storage for most of my servers: for most websites, your bandwidth will be a bigger limitation than your data access speed.

[-] raunchieska@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Are they bullshitting me with RAID 100000 PURE SSD STORAGE!!!!!

very specific. who hurt you?

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