I don’t know if renting a dedicated server goes against the point of selfhosting but whatever.
Everyone seems to recommend hetzner on reddit because they are cheaper, but OVH seems to be much cheaper that hetzner for low end servers, especially the Kimsufi and So You Start ranges.
This is the server I was looking at with OVH:
CPU : Intel Xeon D1520 - 4c/8t - 2.2 GHz/2.6 GHz
Memory : 32 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage : 4 x 2 TB HDD SATA Soft RAID
Public bandwidth : 250 Mbps
Price: £26.66 per month.
hetzner seems to start a lot higher with specs, but I don’t need 64GB of ram and a 1Gb/s internet connection, The instance I am posting this from is the lowest spec kimsufi possible with an intel atom and 4GB of RAM and that is running lemmy and mastodon fine.
Is there something else bad about OVH that I am missing? (other than the flammable servers)
Offsite backup storage, selfhosted stuff (lemmy, mastodon, gitlab, etc) and some data processing. I was going to run ZFS on it so I could easily back my PC up to and and the other way with syncoid. I don’t think I get access to the ZFS pool (if that’s what they are using) with the storage box. Looks like good value though.
EDIT:
It’s the RAM that is interesting to me, I have a little VPS with a local provider but it’s only got 1GB of ram. I would like to have a always on machine with a lot of RAM so I could run a lot of containers and maybe VMs.