The Black Friday has been running for about 2 days now, and like everyone else, I’ve been both getting tons of emails, as well as searching deals myself on Google.
My concern this time has been focused on finding a good VPS deal. Something with the lowest price and the best performance.
In other words, I needed more than “the best price by performance value”. No, I needed something of the sort of a “fantastic performance” for dirt cheap money. Fortunately I’ve got a few, and I shall recommend what I believe is the best of them, which I purchased myself.
One main criteria that made me choose the order, is the offer’s durability at the renewal time.
My #1 Choice is this VPS:
- CPU: 2 vCores at 2.6GHZ
- RAM: 4GB
- Storage: 50GB SSD
- Dedicated IPs: 1
- OS: Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS / LUBUNTU + RDP
- Location: France / Germany
- Offer validity: Yes, it will be the same during the renewal time.
- Other offers: Yes, they provide a good range of offers starting at 3 EUR.
- This offer’s price: €21 Semi-Annually / €42 Annually
- Offer link: https://goo.gl/VFPd3S
- Important Note: If you’re short of cash, file your order to benefit from the discount, and pay on a later date with no problems.
Here’s the OVH #2 specs:
My second recommendation is OVH, which I host two other VPSes on their servers, and I like it there. May be they have the best Control Panel out of everything I’ve tried.
- CPU: 1 vCores at 2.4GHZ
- RAM: 4GB
- Storage: 40GB SSD – Local RAID
- Dedicated IPs: 1
- OS: A wide range of Linux Distros
- Location: France / Germany / UK / Canada / Poland. Singapore / Australia are offered on their Asia website.
- Offer validity: No, the renewal will be at the regular price
- Other offers: Yes, they provide one more offer, and this is the least expensive out of the two.
- This offer’s price: €42 HT and €50 TTC Annually, unless you choose the Canadian offer and benefit from 0 Tax, if you’re not in Canada.
- Offer link: https://goo.gl/AKiG7j (French site) / https://goo.gl/eRWEAV (US site)
My #3 is AliBabaCloud offers:
I have a mixed feeling about this to say the least.
First, their in-house and bespoke Panel! It needs a lot of get used to, in order to navigate your way in.
It is just like China, a giant condensed place with everything and anything. There are too much services that you might have never heard of before, too many options that you can choose from, and you will lose yourself thinking what’s best for you, and tricky features that might render your experience a nightmare, but they have a solid and strong product that makes anyone proud to present. I shall make a series of in-depth reviews about their services that will bring more attention to what I’m speaking about.
I have to add, this is rather a VPC than a VPS, and here are the specs:
- CPU: 1 vCores at 2.5 Intel Xeon
- RAM: 1GiB
- Storage: 40GiB Ultradisk / or SSD
- Dedicated IPs: 1 Elastic IP
- OS: A wide range of Linux Distros
- Location: Restricted to the US West (Silicon Valley) Zone B 1
- Offer validity: No, the renewal will be at the regular price
- Other offers: Yes, they provide a zillion more option. Be ready for confusion.
- This offer’s price: ~$59 ~= €52
- Offer link: https://goo.gl/eJkZTh (Front page) / If the offers don’t show, use this directly https://goo.gl/KMZz3B
AlibabaCloud unrealistic deals that you can never land on:
AliBabaCloud also sports 2 more insane offers. One is available only 10 times during the day, which is known as a Lightening Deal. I have yet to catch one of them even after spending 24 hours glued to the screen!
The second one is directed to students, but it’s yet to activate in the coming days apparently, and I shall keep you updated about it. The screenshot says it all, and I wonder what is the criteria used to prove you’re a student or not.
Anyway, it says coming soon. I just hope it’s soon enough to be able to try it, and I hope it’s not a limited quantity either.
Other providers, and a point of view:
So far I checked others, and I wasn’t impressed. Sometimes, they offered no discounts at all, and sometimes they provided like %5 discount, and that includes Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, and the rest of the crew.
I wouldn’t say I’ve checked all the reliable ones out there, but I will say at least these are the major players in the arena nowadays. I also have to add, not all people are the same, and not all our needs are alike. In some cases, it makes more sense to opt for a more expensive option than the other. It might even be less performant than its cheaper counterpart. However, the provided addons and extra tools will make it for you.
For example, I never needed to purchase a Premium DNS, Email packages, easy domain linkers, SSL certificates, cPanel/Plesk/WHM licenses and so. I do everything myself right from an SSH terminal, and I find it easier and lighter this way. At the same time, I won’t tell someone with zero knowledge about this stuff to do what I do, because I know he will need to hire someone else to do the job for him, and that will cost extra, and I mean a lot extra than buying these services directly from the VPS providers.
Final Thoughts:
With that being said, I can assure you OVH has the best Console and User Interface to manage your stuffs, but you need to be a geek in yourself to benefit from that power.
Digital Ocean might be more expensive than most of the above, but it’s the easiest to manage, to attach domains, and launch droplets, but for power users, it’s limiting.
AlibabaCloud was such a ride for me the first time I used it. I grew to super like it later, and it gave me all the power I could harness from their Control Panel. They have introduced a new one recently, and I still prefer the old puzzling one, but that’s just me again. What I hated about Alibaba is their support. It’s very slow, and might take you ages to get a response, however, if you needed High Priority support, then you need to purchase Support Credit with extra money, which is a ridiculous concept for such a service provider per se.
MVPS, my first choice on the list here, and my new found love. They have a very simple control panel, the least features-rich I’ve seen so far, and they seem a bit new in the business, but their servers are super fast. Their ping is stunning, and most importantly, their prices are unbeatable at the moment. I took very little time setting up and preparing my VPS there, and they have a rock solid responsive support.
In the near future, I shall make a full review about the ins and the outs of these services to provide you a better idea of what you should expect.
Let me know if you find any more or better offers.
