RackNerd ❯ 2 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, 2 GB RAM, and 40 GB SSD storage, with a monthly bandwidth allocation of 3.5 TB over a 1.0 Gbps port. IPv4 is supported, while IPv6 is not available, and port 25 is open by default.
Potential Use Cases: The VPS can be used to run a self-hosted Git service using platforms like Gitea or Gogs, or to operate a lightweight web server employing Lighttpd or Caddy. It is also suitable for deploying an MQTT broker such as Mosquitto for IoT applications, or for managing containerized workloads with Podman. Additionally, it can host a resource-efficient CMS or wiki system, such as DokuWiki, for internal documentation.
Critical Considerations: The shared CPU may introduce variability in compute-intensive tasks. With only 2 GB of RAM, applications requiring significant memory or concurrent processes may be constrained, and the 40 GB SSD limits the available data capacity. Moreover, since Windows is not permitted, deployments are restricted to Linux and BSD environments.
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The latest price was $1.52, collected on February 23.
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