Battling to Find a VPS hosting company

[Skaaptjompie]

Hi all

i Am looking for a well priced VPS/ dedicated server hosting compamy. The main issue is that i am wanting to host a modded scum server and even though there are several hosting providers non of them allow modded stuff. Their excuse is that because mods are not fully suported yet, i can understand to a degree. The only way around this and being able to host the server i want is to use a VPS.

the issue is that with what i have found online so far is that gerring a proper spec VPS to run the server costs and arm and a leg allmost.

 

[Rubble]

A full on VPS will always be a bit costly sadly. Cost wise your best bets for hosted are probably cloud.co.za or hostafrica, both are decent but IMO if you are able to and have the skills its almost always better to go self hosted

Provided your router supports it your best bet might be to set up a DMZ network (to keep it isolated and protect your normal network you connect to on off change the server is somehow compromised) and grabbing a cheapie from the combo section and setting up your own server - better yet if you already have parts lying around from an old build

 

[warlock072]

I have used and tested so many, locally im using Absolute Hosting, so far they are the best i found locally. I still use Vultr and Linode where i require an 'outside' ZAR instance. Cannot go wrong with Azure and AWS for 'complete' and/or enterprise level experience.

 

[sweed]

Racknerd is quite decently priced

 

[aiccc]

Following

 

[Zerolag]

absolute hosting is pretty solid here local.
Otherwise longterm cheap would be ask you isp for a static ip address. usually they charge 40-60 rand a month. Then setup a separate network if your network hardware supports it and build a machine from old parts of grab one of the 11-13th gen intel SFF pc's on carb that are well priced. Easy way to get 14+ threads.

Some other things to look at on the home hosting side is getting a 6-9 digit xyz domain from cloudflare for 1 dollar a year which comes with all their premium domain features like proxied ip address, some security, cloudflare tunnels and private networks through their warp vpn.Lots of solid ways to set this up at home and secure it. Depending on your internet you might want to bump that up.