Toying with the idea of setting this up for myself, maybe a few bridges, maybe a few group chats on matrix itself. What kind of cost should I expect?

  • Xanza@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    Love Lowend. Just grabbed this deal from massiveGRID. Never heard of them, but I took a chance;

    4 Shared Intel Xeon CPU vCores
    8 RAM DDR4 ECC Registered (GB)
    256 Primary High Availability SSD Storage (GB)
    20 TB Guaranteed Internet Traffic
    1 IP Addresses
    

    I paid $141.28 for 3 years, and replied on their forum post for Lowend and they added 1 extra year of service for free, and activated lifetime pricing. So it works out to be about $2.95/mo which is a damn great price. The only real drawbacks are the network is 1 Gbps shared** and no IPv6 (they’re adding it over the next several weeks looks like).

    **speedtest;

    [root@dev ~]$ speedtest --secure
    Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
    Testing from Massivegrid (xx.xx.xx.xx)...
    Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
    Selecting best server based on ping...
    Hosted by Wnet (New York, NY) [0.09 km]: 2.429 ms
    Testing download speed................................................................................
    Download: 1028.91 Mbit/s
    Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
    Upload: 997.58 Mbit/s
    

    So not absolutely mindblowing, but you seem to get the full 1 Gbps, which is great. I contacted support and they’ll be offering VDS plans soon with access to higher than 1 Gbps speeds. Super happy so far.