[AnotherGoodName]

They simply don't work.

The cheap VPS's absolutely do not allow you to pin the CPU to 100% usage for a significant amount of time since that messes up the provisioning. A Minecraft server will definitely pin the CPU to 100%.

What happens is that your process will be killed repeatedly.

A $5 VPS is great for simple site hosting and a small amount of CPU workload. They do not work at all for any type of game server.

>As long as you don’t go to 100% CPU usage for a long period of time, everything will be okay. DigitalOcean are doing pro active monitoring and will see if your droplet is having 100% CPU usage all the time and may limit the CPU capacity of the droplets displaying this behavior. Since each droplet shares physical hardware with other droplets, constant 100% CPU use degrades the service quality for other users on the same node.

Note that a game server will go to 100%. It will be killed.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/cpu-usage-l...

[Teckla]

I've run a Minecraft server on a $10/month DigitalOcean VPS for years.

What you describe has never happened to me. Have I just been lucky?

[AnotherGoodName]

Yeah since it's a shared server others on the server can feel when someone's using a lot of CPU and complain. That's when they'll intervene. You're lucky here. Also it does depend on what's happening on the server. There's no chance of some of the complex mods working on a cheap instance.

[fomine3]

Did you check %steal?