RackNerd ❯ 4.5 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 and provides Linux templates for several distros, with support for custom ISO installations of BSD and Linux. It is provisioned with 4 shared Intel cores, 4 GB RAM, and 100 GB SSD storage, and offers 8.5 TB of monthly bandwidth over a 1.0 Gbps port. IPv4 connectivity and rDNS are provided, while IPv6 is not available. Windows is not permitted on this VPS, even via ISO installation.
Potential Use Cases: The system can run a variety of Linux server applications. It is suitable for hosting dynamic web applications using a LAMP/LEMP stack (for example, Apache or Nginx with MySQL/MariaDB and PHP), serving as an API backend using frameworks such as Express.js or Flask, or operating as a reverse proxy with HAProxy. The VPS can also support containerized deployments using Docker or orchestration with Kubernetes, and is appropriate for running small-scale databases or caching servers (such as Redis or Memcached).
Critical Considerations: The shared CPU cores may lead to performance fluctuations during sustained heavy workloads. The 4 GB RAM restricts memory-intensive applications or multitasking scenarios, and the 100 GB SSD, while offering fast access, may require careful allocation for data-intensive applications. The absence of IPv6 and the enforced Linux-only policy further constrain certain deployment scenarios, and the monthly bandwidth limit should be considered for applications with high data transfer requirements.
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The latest price was $3.82, collected on March 16.
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