[KronisLV]

> I'm currently paying 45€ for a Ryzen server with 64gb ECC ram and 1tb nvme storage (raid1).

That does sound like a really good deal!

Until now i've only been using VPSes (apart from homelab servers as CI nodes etc.) because they're cheaper for the smaller sizes, but for comparison's sake, the cheapest VPS provider's (that i know of and trust) offering with 64 GB of RAM and 640 GB of storage would cost ~260 euros a month: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294

Well, i guess there's also other VPS providers out there that can nearly match the price, like Contabo, though they do have mixed reviews: https://contabo.com/en/ (personally i just found their UI to be extremely dated and there are setup fees, but otherwise they were decent), though even then they'd cost anywhere from 30 - 90 euros a month.

[y4mi]

yeah, low resource VPSs are great value if you don't mind the performance too much.

I was using a Netcup root server with 2 dedicated cores/8gb ram before i switched to my current hetzner baremetal server. It only cost ~7€ per month, so much better value if i you don't mind that everything just takes a little longer.

i dont think i'll ever go back though. even using the shell on the baremetal server is so much more responsive vs the vps.

but for what its worth: you can get a VPS with similar resources (16 cores, 64gb ram, 2tb ssd) for 40€ with netcup.