Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tweetle_beetle 829 days ago
$100/year sounds like a lot to host a personal blog on a shared server (having "compute intensive backend" doesn't sound typical though to be fair). On some big providers like Hetzner, that would buy into their third tier of service, where for most people the first would be fine.

There are lots of places for VPS cheaper than what you pay now. And if you want to go really cheap then you can always take a gamble on lowendbox.com (and set up backups). Some providers do basic stuff for $10-12/year and there are various flavours of installers for common open source packages like blogging tools.