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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>If you’re looking for a good, inclusive VPS deal, I would highly recommend Hostinger (hostinger.com).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I’ve had their “KVM 2” plan (2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB NVMe space / 8 TB bandwidth) for about a year and half now. They’re offering this plan for $6.99/mo for a 24-month term ($167.76 for 2 years if my math is correct) at the moment. I *<b>think</b>* this is a promotional price, but to be honest, I’ve seen it advertised for a while now. Link: <a href="https://www.hostinger.com/vps-hosting#pricing">https://www.hostinger.com/vps-hosting#pricing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>They have a great deal of variety with regard to OS and/or pre-installed applications:<br><br><a href="https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/1583571-what-are-the-available-operating-systems-for-vps">https://support.hostinger.com/en/articles/1583571-what-are-the-available-operating-systems-for-vps</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Fair warning, I’m not sure if I was doing something causing issues or not, but I had mixed results using their Cloudron template. I’m currently using the Nextcloud template (The snap version of Nextcloud is pre-installed, but it’s still a wide open Linux system with root privileges). Let me know if you have any questions, but if there’s a better deal out there, I haven’t seen it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Respectfully,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Scott Lopez<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> David Schwartz <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> February 26, 2025 7:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: PLESK / shared hosting question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>it’s currently showing $51/yr — "for 3-years billing cycles” — so $153 for 36 months, or $4.25/mo<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>They charge for SSL certs.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And they don’t mention OS options anywhere.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got a totally off-beat suggestion for you: check out <a href="http://Latenode.com">Latenode.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know what the service they offer is called exactly, but they’re like Zapier and Make.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>They're all starting to position themselves as “no-code hosting”, but in reality, they provide the ability to set up back-end services and host them for a very reasonable price. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you’re building web apps, you want to hide your service interfaces behind a firewall that’s not accessible to your users. The way that’s done in most services is via “webhooks”, which are simply HTTP REQUESTS that you send to a URL with some ID and you get back a response, usually in a JSON packet. That’s what you’re building on a VPS, right?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well, that’s what these guys offer — but you don’t have to worry about the hosting because it’s just part of the deal. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>With just a couple of exceptions, everything I’ve needed to put into my back-end service is stuff that can be easily provided on Latenode. And if you can implement the other things you need in javascript, then you can probably even provide your custom functions as well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I personally don’t want to waste my time administering my own hosting service for what amounts to routine stuff. These guys add a LOT of value, and it saves me a lot of time and headaches. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-David Schwartz<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Feb 26, 2025, at 6:09 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'><br>Am I reading this right? 2vcpu/8G Ram/160GB SSD for $64/year?<br><br></span><a href="https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'><br><br><br><br><br>On 2025-02-26 17:13, Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;text-align:start;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss<br><<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>You should contact one of their reps. Amazon (AWS), Microsoft<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>(Azure), and others mainly cater to large-volume clients.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>Farmers sell by the bushel or ton or something like that; you<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>probably won’t find their prices listed anywhere other than at their<br>public U-Pick-It gates where they’re about the same price as the<br>grocery store.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>-David Schwartz<br>On Feb 22, 2025, at 9:23 AM, <a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a> wrote:<br>Thanks David!!<br>It appears Amazon does not have wholesale pricing. Given that I<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>think there is room for hosting companies to own their own<br>infrastructure.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Menlo-Regular",serif'>I have been using a VPS hosted by ssdnodes [1] for about 5+ years and<br>am very happy with their uptime and support service.<br>I believe they also do volume hosting; connect with their sales<br>department.<br>PS - no commercial affiliation with ssd nodes.<br>--<br>Arun Khan<br>Links:<br>------<br>[1]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.ssdnodes.com/">https://www.ssdnodes.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>