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Oh I'll definitely try them out, I'm on DO and not very excited about them, those Hetzner prices look great!

I'm a bit sad they don't have anything closer to the UK: I'll miss the 4ms ping to my DO VPS.

EDIT: holy shit, I looked into Contabo mentioned below and it's even cheaper! €5 for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM, what's the catch?

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A few months ago, I compiled this list to come up with cheap, mostly EU-based VPS providers: https://gist.github.com/derhuerst/4ef9a832e031bf82d6e640e2dd...

It doesn't take into account though: - update guarantees - quality of customer support (I had very bad experiences with Scaleway for example) - score normalisation across many instances, to compensate different loads on VM hosts into account

At my company we used Contabo servers. They were Windows VMs, I can’t tell anything about Linux ones. But, the ones we had felt underpowered for what we expected. It might have been subjective, we haven’t performed any benchmarking, just a feeling. Also, their UI is straight from the 90s, in a bad way.

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