RackNerd ❯ 2.5 GB KVM VPS (Black Friday 2024)
RackNerd is among the largest and most established providers of low-cost VPSs and dedicated servers, offering cloud services from a number of American data centers and from Strasbourg, France and Dublin, Ireland. They have been excellently reviewed for the reliability of their services and their competent customer support, but they are known for offering somewhat underpowered hardware particularly on their Intel CPUs. Other than that, RackNerd remains a reliable and recommended all-around choice.
VPS Description:
Overview: This RackNerd VPS is hosted in the U.S.A. on KVM virtualization. It provides preconfigured Linux templates with support for custom ISO installations, though Windows is not permitted. The VPS has 2 shared Xeon cores, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB SSD storage, with a monthly bandwidth limit of 3 TB delivered over a 1.0 Gbps port. It supports IPv4 connectivity and rDNS; IPv6 is not available, and port 25 is open by default.
Viable Use Cases: The system is suited for specialized, low-overhead tasks. For example it can host Node-RED to aggregate IoT data and interface with MQTT brokers for sensor networks, or run a lightweight Matrix server (Synapse) for real-time messaging within small teams. The VPS is also appropriate for deploying a reverse proxy to manage and distribute traffic across backend services, or for operating an IRC server such as InspIRCd for internal communications. Additionally, it can serve as a Git repository using Gogs for streamlined version control in small development environments.
Critical Considerations: Shared CPU cores may result in limited performance under system load. With 2 GB RAM and 40 GB SSD storage, workloads must be optimized for low memory and data consumption. IPv6 is absent.
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The latest price was $1.58, collected on March 15.
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