RackNerd ❯ 1 GB KVM VPS (New Year 2025)
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 preconfigured Linux templates with support for custom ISO installations for Linux and BSD only. It is provisioned with 1 shared Intel core, 1 GB RAM, and 24 GB SSD storage, with a monthly bandwidth allocation of 2 TB over a 1.0 Gbps port. IPv4 connectivity is supported while IPv6 is not available, and port 25 is open by default. Windows is not permitted on this system.
Potential Use Cases: The limited resource configuration makes this VPS suitable for applications with low compute and storage demands. It can operate as a dedicated monitoring node running software like Prometheus (with node exporters) and Grafana for visualizing metrics, or as a lightweight package repository mirror using tools such as aptly for Debian-based systems. It is also viable for running an MQTT broker like Mosquitto for IoT data collection, or a minimal syslog server employing rsyslog or syslog-ng for centralized logging. Additionally, it can function as a reverse proxy for small microservices setups using lightweight servers such as Caddy.
Critical Considerations: The 1 GB RAM and 24 GB SSD storage impose strict limitations, making this VPS unsuitable for applications requiring high memory or extensive data storage. The single shared CPU core may introduce latency in compute-bound tasks, and the 2 TB monthly bandwidth cap restricts high-volume data transfers.
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The latest price was $0.94, collected on February 23.
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