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 2 shared Intel cores, 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 VPS can be deployed as a lightweight DNS server using Unbound or BIND, or as a reverse proxy with Traefik to distribute traffic among backend nodes. It is also suitable for a minimal mail relay setup with OpenSMTPD or Postfix, and can host a small version control system using Fossil SCM or a basic wiki platform like Wiki.js for internal documentation. Additionally, it can serve as a low-overhead VPN server using WireGuard for personal use only; public-facing VPNs are not permitted by ToS.
Critical Considerations: The 1 GB RAM and 24 GB SSD storage limit the number and size of concurrent applications. The shared 2-core CPU may exhibit performance variability under heavy load, and the 2 TB monthly bandwidth cap restricts data-intensive operations.
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The latest price was $1.44, collected on February 23.
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