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  • Free trial options

Hosting Providers

• gandi.net - $5 a month for a small instance, 30gb traffic
  • GANDI also provides VPS with unmetered 10Mbps link and I can vouch that using at least 2/3 of this 24/7 gets no complaints. Billing is a big pain in the ass though, there's no way to auto-bill so you have to remember to fill your prepaid account. Troofmaster 14:57, 24 March 2013 (EDT)
• Amazon EC2 - pricing

DigitalOcean

• Smallest plan
  • $0.007 per hour
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 20 GB storage
  • 1 cpu core
  • 1 TB transfer

• Most Popular Plan
  • $0.015 per hour
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 30 GB storage
  • 1 cpu core
  • 2 TB transfer

• Unmetered BW
• Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, or Gentoo options available.
• Coupon code "SSDTWEET" gives $11.15 account credit
• Supports launching new instances from an image
• Submit a support ticket to lift the standard 5 instance limit
• API can launch instances

Joyent

I've had good experiences running high-traffic, low-CPU jobs at Joyent due to the incredible 20TB/mo included (with a single account, last I checked, not per-instance). Troofmaster 14:57, 24 March 2013 (EDT)

Been running a extra small instance for a few weeks. No uptime or connectivity issues. A decent service but the problems listed below make this a second not a first choice. omf_ 0:44, 27 March 2013 (EDT)

• Extra small Linux instance
  • $0.03 per hour
  • 512 MB RAM
  • /dev/vda1 9 GB ext4 partition, minus 750mb for the operating system
  • /dev/vdb1 15 GB ext4 partition. mounted as /data/
  • 1 cpu
• Small Linux instance
  • $0.085 per hour
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 30 GB storage
  • 1 cpu
• 20 TB outbound per month free (and it's FAST)
• Debian 6.x and Centos

Problems

• No support for installing custom Linux distributions. Meaning you have to install everything you need every single time since you always start off with one of their fresh installs.
• Cannot find a way to add more hard disk and RAM to a running instance.
• The wiki is currently down :(
• Some scripts on there site are just broken links :(
• No way to view your current account balance or hours usage.

linode

• Linode 512
  • $19.95 per month
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 24 GB storage
  • 2 TB per month
• Linode 1024 (1gb)
• Linux
  • $39.95 per month
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 48 GB storage
  • 4 TB per month

BuyVM (VPS)

• OpenVZ plan
  • $15/year
  • 128 MB RAM (burst to 256 MB)
  • 15 GB storage
  • 1 CPU
  • 500 GB per month bandwidth

• CentOS/Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu
• OpenVZ means you can't change the kernel
• Burstable RAM is availible as long as there is capacity on the host node, which seems to be almost all the time
• Additional IP v4 addresses $1/month, but they probably won't let you cycle them to avoid bans
• Additional bandwidth $2.50/month for 1TB extra with no maximum
• Larger plans also available with similar pricing
• Plans often go out of stock, especially the smaller ones
• IRC support and information about stock in #Frantech on irc.dairc.net

EDIS.at

I've so far had good experiences running Tor relays and other small jobs on the Micro VPSes with EDIS. Troofmaster 14:57, 24 March 2013 (EDT)

• KVM VPS in many countries, including Iceland, Isle of Man ('offshore'), Sweden, Switzerland, Spain for those concerned about local privacy laws
• Micro
  • €1.99 per month, yearly
  • 128 MB RAM
  • 1 GB storage (was plenty to run Yahoo Messages grab scripts)
  • 500 GB per month traffic

• Smart
  • €3.99 per month, yearly
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 5 GB storage
  • 1 TB per month traffic
• Debian