VPS $1 per month?

StackArcVPS · Apr 10, 2017

a vps priced on that scale will be too underpowered to be actually even called a vps. technically it will be a vps but it doesnt make any sense to have such an underpowered server with virtual specs

Dewlance · Apr 11, 2017

I already calculated profit on this and here is result I got by my calculation:

Its not possible for provider to sell VPS at $1 who use Colocation:
Price of colocation and IPv4 IP Address is bit high and most of Colo provider sell colocation at lest $25/mo with only 5 IP Address, If you wish to sell VPS at $1 then you will be need to purchase /26 IP block (/26 = 61 IP Address) and maybe you will be need 2 x /26 IPv4 block so cost of IP will cross $80 and you will be out of game of $1 VPS plan.

However you can sell at $3/mo with decent profit, You will be need to purchase your own dedicated server and colocate to provider who give IPv4 at low cost and colo under $80/mo.

Price can be lower If you want to do not provide IPv4 and provide only IPv6 IP, This is game changer but you will not get long term customer and most of will purchase it for VPN or Spamming. (I doubt that you will get good loyal customer).

Datacenter can sell at $1/mo VPS
Cost of bandwidth, etc can be much lower for datacenter and also they can get /24 IP block at much cheaper price so they will be even able to sell VPS below $1 with less profit but they will need to use less employee. One man datacenter can do this easily.

isix · Apr 11, 2017

Don't understand the price politics of those, who make such offers. VPS for $1 and shared plans for $2. A little bit confusing for the customer. But what's ever, VPS overselling works very well...

BlueLeaf · Apr 15, 2017

$1 per month per VPS sounds super cheap to me. Even $5 per month per VPS sounds cheap. I used to pay $10 per month and $20 per month for the VPS-es that I get with a hosting company, and that looks like a fair price to me, taking into account the good service that I get, and the reliability of their support.

Anyway, maybe I am behind. Maybe there are VPS-es offered for much cheaper and I didn't know. Anyway, I would rather pay slightly more but have peace of mind that my VPS-es are in good hands. If I would get a VPS for $1 per month, and I see signs that the company isn't reliable and my support tickets aren't answered within a day or two, and I see server slowness problems or downtime coming from the hosting company's side, then I would't think much and I would move away from them. As I said, I would rather pay slightly more but get good service.

isix · Apr 15, 2017

It's really funny - here is a reliable company with a "slightly" higher prices then $1, 5,10... What do you think, about this provider VPSs prices? liquidweb.com/vps.html

iserveradmin11 · Apr 20, 2017

Hello ,
There are many cheap option for VPS with variety of features which may suit your requirement.
As far I get to know your need I think you should go for VPS with above 2GB RAM which could be easily obtained at $4.

Payas
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rankmyhub · Apr 20, 2017

It may be possible for you to get lowend vps at lowend talk forum. But not at $1 per month though.

Last time I checked, there are some providers offering KVM under $20 per year with IPV4, SSD and 512 MB RAM. The specs are decent and it should work fine for wordpress instances with serverpilot as control panel.

May be OP can check such offers, and also check this forum for offers close to the specs I mentioned. You will get OpenVZ for less price compared to KVM VDS.

So depending on your needs, you should choose one that works for you. Thanks

BlaZeX · Apr 24, 2017

Just look for NAT VPS

Example: lowendspirit.com/index.html

They will roughly cost you around $5-8 for a year. Depends on the specifications & location though.

Medhahosting · Jun 22, 2017

try your luck promotion on forumweb.hosting

VirtuBox · Jun 25, 2017

I agree, that's the same for Plesk, minimum requirements to install Plesk Onyx on linux are 512MB RAM with 1GB SWAP.

But on my own Plesk VPS, with only few websites (10-15) and without high-traffic, memory usage is already 2GB and 4GB are used for cache.

Less than 2GB RAM is not enough for a LAMP/LEMP stack, even without a control panel. MySQL/MariaDB server will always be faster with more RAM and the proper settings for the InnoDB Buffer Pool or the temporary tables storage.
For testing purpose, cheap servers from scaleway are a pretty good solution, and you can get 8GB RAM for less than $10/mo, with hourly billing. Their servers are not the fastest available on the market, but for that price and to run all my tests, I do not need a huge CPU.

jyy · Aug 10, 2017

A VPS or server which is that cheap couldn't run cPanel on it. In that case, I'm guessing you'd have to install some thing like OpenVZ or some other open source interface application. Anyway, I've never really tried these interfaces. Are they as good as cPanel? I'm guessing no, but I could be wrong. For instance, in a lot of ways free forum software can be as good as premium.

Oh, by the way, the reason cPanel cannot be on these applications is due to the cost of the interface. A hosting company has to dish out quite a bit for it (in relation to other things).

isix · Aug 10, 2017

jyy said:
I'm guessing you'd have to install some thing like OpenVZ or some other open source interface application. Anyway, I've never really tried these interfaces. Are they as good as cPanel?

OpenVZ is a virtualization enviroment, it's not a web hosting control panel.

jyy said:
Oh, by the way, the reason cPanel cannot be on these applications is due to the cost of the interface.

The reason why such cheap VPS can't run cPanel would be the RAM. Can't imagine that a $ 1 VPS has more then 2 GB RAM.

CertaHosting · Aug 15, 2017

Can you really expect a good quality service for 1$ a month on VPS. Wait until the core host gets all and you start having big issues.

Cheap isnt always the best way to go

Aree · Oct 26, 2017

If all you really need to do with your VPS test lab, so to speak, is just to test out how well certain things would run, then I strongly suggest you create an account with Digital Ocean. You can create an instance, try out whatever you want and destroy the instance immediately after you have finished. That way you pay only exactly for what you have used. $5 would give you lots of chances to experiment. Oh, an instance is a vps which you create. Or, in Digital Ocean parlance, a Drop. Just ask Uncle Google where to find Digital Ocean.

DTS-NET · Sep 8, 2018

most companies offer a $1 promo for VPS you just have to ask

ForwardWeb - Branden · Sep 9, 2018

We cant go as low as 1 dollar but we have a great offer on right now check my signature if you want otherwise you can always look on the marketplace

ForwardWeb - Branden · Sep 10, 2018

Exactly my thoughts

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