Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
372 points by mariocesar | 601 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking what services people find worth running 24/7 on a cheap $5 VPS or mini PC.
#vps on Hacker News
7 stories tagged vps, newest first.
Hetzner Price Adjustment(docs.hetzner.com)
512 points by tuhtah | 695 comments
Hetzner documentation page listing old and new prices for its cloud server products in Germany and Finland after a price adjustment.
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD(crocidb.com)
353 points by speckx | 214 comments
Personal blog post describing migrating a blog from a decade-old Ubuntu 16.04 DigitalOcean VPS to a cheaper FreeBSD virtual machine on Hetzner.
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service(it-notes.dragas.net)
365 points by birdculture | 87 comments
Blog post on IT Notes describing how FediMeteo, a fediverse weather service, runs on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS serving thousands of followers.
Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
379 points by hyperknot | 617 comments
Hacker News post sharing a Hetzner email announcing higher prices and included traffic cut from 20+ TB to 1–8 TB for US cloud servers and load balancers.
Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS(github.com)
412 points by mightymoud | 142 comments
GitHub repository for Sidekick, a CLI tool that sets up a bare VPS and deploys self-hosted apps in a few commands, like a personal Fly.io.
How I run my servers (2022)(blog.wesleyac.com)
345 points by ingve | 147 comments
Wesley Aptekar-Cassels's 2022 blog post describing how he runs and deploys his own server software on VMs instead of cloud services.