For those of us who like to tinker with client/server software for personal or household, there are many good options. You can use a Raspberry Pi as a server, for example. You can use an old computer.
Both of these would have services running out of your home or business. But, as we are an increasingly mobile society, you might not have good upstream bandwidth, or your ISP may block ports into your home. So, that is where a low-end VPS offering comes in.
We chose ChicagoVPS, which offers a $12/year 128mb VPS, with 10GB of storage space and 100GB of monthly bandwidth. That is more than enough for personal use. They offer three locations: Chicago, Buffalo, or LA. There are similar services averaging around $12-15 a year.
This is not the sort of service where you expect a lot of reliability. The service has had some hiccups, Â but as long as you backup and take adequate steps you should on any service, there shouldn’t be any problem.
On a 128mb instance, I have Tiny Tiny RSS running, as well as ZNC, and a few other random services that I only use for my own personal interests.
What do you think? Do you have any other recommendations for a tiny VPS? Do you have alternative providers you recommend for cheap VPS services?
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You could run tt-rss – and pretty much any typical webapp thing – on OpenShift: https://github.com/who-me/ttrss-fast-deployment
I use for this porpose, and so I recommend Gandi (gandi.net). They offer unlimited monthly bandwidth, good quality….