Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
14 points by wally
14 points by wally
I’m hosting OpenBSD VPS on TierHive. Currently costing me ~$5 per year. I’ve been meaning to write up a post about it :P
Another great option is openbsd.amsterdam. I've had a VM with them for the past 3 years and can't complain. The stability, communication, and costs have all been great, especially for such a small, niche provider.
A VM is rented on a yearly basis at 71€/yr, 15€ of which is a donation to the OpenBSD project (monthly that's 4.66€ plus 1.25€ donation).
I second that, I've been using them for a couple of years too and had zero issues with them. Amazing communication, it's all you would expect from such a service.
Since this is going to be a bare-bones web server we can remove most of the sets. You can type in -x* to remove all of the X server sets. Let's also remove the game -gam* and compiler -com* sets too. This should leave us with bsd, bsd.rd, base79.tgz, and man79.tgz. Press return since we are done. You should see signatures verified for the sets as they download. After the sets install we can select [done].
this is not a good idea - just install all the sets
I’m not sure why OpenBSD lets you install only a partial set of sets when the binary packages assume they all exist and the everyone says you must have all of them installed.
The option is there for advanced users who want to tailor their systems in a particular way and know what the consequences of removing sets are, but yeah I think the installer should hide that or be clearer about that. Something like a “Do you want to remove sets from the installation (not recommended)?” dialog would allow advanced users to still access it while pushing everyone else to the recommended default.
Not BSD related, but I was migrating from digital ocean to European cloud provider and I found it hilarious that I can rent an vm for €1.39/month, but with IPv4 it will cost €5.04/month. So I decided to ditch IPv4 as legacy technology..., works from my phone.
There must be something in the zeitgeist right now. I think the hosting plan on this morning's post is a better value for this sort of thing.
I followed this older guide on running OpenBSD on Linode, its like $5/mo.
But I recently also grabbed a VM over at OpenBSD Amsterdam, they cost 71euro's per year, and also donate 10euro's per VM to the OpenBSD foundation.