Oh, for Digital Ocean, do use my referral link (jaja):
Digital Ocean ... or not,
Sad Digital Oceana current promo code is UBUNTUDROPLET for $10 credit on there.
Linode (which is better):
Referral link
Linode ... or not,
LinodeIMO, Linode is much, much better than Digital Ocean. They had a $50 promo code that expired about a month or so ago, but you can still get a $10 credit with LINODE10 (for Linode, you have to pay $5 before you can use the promo code, I believe) .. I use the Linode 2048 for two of my bitcoin nodes (japan and london).
there's also Vultr, that had a much better promo that just expired... but you can still get $5 credit from making a new account, w/o having to deposit anything, just have to enter a valid payment method.
Referral:
Vultr, or if you aren't keen on giving me mones,
Vultrthis other one I'm trying, I'm not too sure about it yet, but I'm using it for the Israel node (two locations in Israel, Petach Tikva and Rosh Haayin), it also has locations in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New York. The Hong Kong location has a limit of 200GB per month transfer, the others are 1TB I believe.
ClubVPS ... you get ONE "free" VPS on there as a new user, up to $100. Their pricing scheme isn't so hot for bitcoin nodes, unfortunately. The best I could do with $100 was set up a 2 core, 8GB RAM, 200GB HDD (I just asked them to reduce it to 40GB, since that's all I need... it was essentially just where I put the last $50 or so that I couldn't use anywhere else)... remember that it's just for one VPS, can't use the $100 for multiple VPS's unfortunately.
oh, this gem for Russia,
VStoike.RU, or directly to the KVM I chose
Order ... About $12.50 for a one CPU, 2GB RAM, 90GB HDD, 100Mbps port (**I think it's dedicated, since I got a solid 11-12MB/s the whole time I was transferring blockchain over) & 3TB monthly traffic... blows any other offers I've seen from Russia out of the water, honestly. Since it's a KVM, the resources are all dedicated, so the one CPU is plenty (I forget exactly what it is, but it can handle bitcoind fine). You may be able to get away with using VPS-2 if you dropped the number of orphans stored in memory and what not (about 8.85USD)
oh, forgot Wable..
Wable (Incero) ... isn't the cheapest budget wise, but for $8/mo you get 3 cpus, 2GB RAM, 50gb SSD, 6TB & 2-20gbps port speed. Uses a front-end using node.js I think? Pretty slick. You can move your resources about freely between Dallas, Seattle, and New York. It's the first place I've run a speedtest on before and gotten > 1000 Mb/s,
Speedtest... that's from the Dallas location. It also got over 1000Mb/s to a Houston & Oklahoma (forget the city) test location.. With bundle 3 you can also freely set your rDNS.. (also one of the cheapest VPS providers w/ their 1st bundle @ 0.75/mo, but won't be able to run bitcoind off of that obviously)
and last edit... re: bitcoin payments:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1402950I've used them a few times, I believe they're wholly owned by Colocrossing now... if not, they're a Colocrossing reseller. But, anyway, you can pay w/ bitcoins there and they have a 75% off for a month on dedicated servers promo right now (very easy to cancel). They also have some VPS', but I've never tried those.
