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Crazy that after so many years of cloud compute a 8GB VM is $48/mo.

If you can, it really makes sense to look for low cost dedicated servers. For $35/month I get a whole machine with dual L5520 and 24 GB of ram. I used to have a little nicer server for a little less, but that provider had to close because their costs for electricity and space went up too fast. Yes, the L5520 is ancient, but my server needs are tiny and it's fun to have a whole machine.

Look on webhostingtalk or lowendbox or lowendtalk.

> that provider had to close because their costs for electricity and space went up too fast

This is kind of exactly what I worry about with a dedicated box. That and hardware failure.

It wasn't too big of a deal, I backup the host on the regular, so it was only a mild pain to relocate.

I currently use hetzner and DO, but a while back when I was trying to find cheaper alternatives, and hetzner pretty good for its price to performance ratio. Smaller vps providers were crazy oversubscribed that would get pretty inconsistent performance.

None of the dedicated machines I found were cheaper, so I'm surprised someone is offering that for $35/month.

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