[waxjar]

People that rent a $15/year VPS use it to run an IRC bouncer or a small web log, something you don't need to know a whole lot of sysadmin stuff for. They just need a machine that's always on.

It's hardly worth hiring a sysadmin for (I find that suggestion laughable, to be frank). Managed hosting doesn't allow you to do much else besides hosting a website in PHP, which is not enough for plenty of use-cases, including OPs.

[lucb1e]

> $15/year VPS

Do tell, where do I get one of those? Cheapest I know of is $60 ($5 a month).

[travoltaj]

Here's one that I know of: http://ramnode.com/vps.php

Other than that, I'm sure you can find something on webhostingtalk forums.

[briandh]

Check http://lowendbox.com/ , though YMMV.

[xrjn]

http://serverbear.com/compare/vps is a great place to find these VPSs, they list some of the smaller services.

[waxjar]

I rent one on BuyVM (http://buyvm.net/). I use it to run an IRC bouncer and an IRC bot.

[vacri]

cloudatcost has $1/mo small servers, or you can buy one 'permanently' for $35.