What are the very VPS cheap options for like <10$/year or maybe even less?
I want to host a large number of censorship-resistant proxy servers around the world.
The location does not matter (except it must not be in some shithole like China or Russia). Perfomance and reliability are not a priority either.
(Not sure if a post about commercial services like this is allowed, if not, I will delete it)
Not sure if you’ll find something that cheap, but RackNerd has some pretty cheap offers sometimes. Thing is, they don’t seem to expire, so there’s this: https://racknerdtracker.com/?sort=price
But I haven’t tried them yet.
Also keep in mind the monthly bandwidth limits.
You get what you pay for, and $10/year is basically nothing.
Oh, and you may be responsible for random people’s traffic depending on the provider. I think I’ve read in ToS of some VPS provider that you have to notify them about running a public service for this reason.
Ooh I’ve been thinking about getting a VPS to set up wireguard from my house so I can get remote access (my ISP uses CGNAT and blocks inbound). I only do about 1TB a month, so these 3-4TB plans should more than cover my needs.
Just like 3 weeks ago I started using Tailscale. I’d highly recommend trying that.
It does some uuuuh… magic to establish direct connections on most networks. You can verify whether you’re using direct connection or relay using
tailscale statuson Linux.It uses Wireguard under the hood. There’s also Tailnet lock feature (still in beta) in case you don’t trust Tailscale to not maliciously add devices to your Tailnet.
This would give you lower latency than the VPS solution. I use it with CG-NAT on both sides. I also started using it for LAN since it establishes direct connection over LAN too, and seamlessly switches between networks so I can disconnect from LAN and keep current connections going over WAN or vice versa.
But I’ve just tried now, and it won’t work even on LAN without internet access. Still better than a VPS solution in some way.
But you may also try looking into headscale which is basically a lightweight self-hosted private Tailscale control server, but I haven’t tried anything with that.
Yeah, seconded on Tailscale. I love how easy it is to get working. Only fear is the recent announcement of venture funding and future enshitification, but right now it’s amazing.