Thanks for the suggestions, I took my time to give it some thought.
I'm looking for more recent experiences
Recently I also bought a VPS from STRATO, which is still online and running perfectly, no downtime at all. However u can bot pay with btc there.
Accepting Bitcoin is really a requirement, partially out of principle, but also because I don't want to tie my creditcard to anything Bitcoin-related.
I've seen this before, but they only give a free trial after I give them my creditcard. And that's the last part of information Google doesn't have on me yet.
I could in theory just sell you a nice server that meets your spec requirements at a nice discount and you slap it in your office or something
You mean I have to physically plug it in myself? I kinda did that just now, but with an old netbook. Long-term, I don't want to run it from my own internet connection (the page load limitations alone are a reason to get rid of it).
In my experience the cost for a responsive, not too oversold VPS starts at >$100 per year.
That makes sense
However, paying more doesn't guarantee it's not still oversold, so I can't rely on just that.
Do I understand this correctly from your description: You want to use that VPS just for downloading data from here, then crunching it somehow and then re-uploading it to your own hosting server?
Correct. I need continuous uptime to download files several times per minute.
There's also a permanent free tier that might work for your uses, but the spec is pretty low. You get a shared vCPU, 614 MB of RAM and a 10 GB disk.
I could probably work with that (although CPU might be a problem for Merit and Trust updates), but the CC is really where I draw the line.
For how much month?, and how much Hardisk you need?
when only 1-2 month and under 50GB hardisk, 1GB ram, i give you free for that.
I'll need a server for at least the coming years.
I got
https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ suggested in a PM. Just posting it here to have everything in one place.
I've just booted up an old Atom netbook to use as a dedicated server for the coming weeks. My priority now is to get all my data processing working without manual intervention. It was a mess already, and got worse when I moved half my data to the VPS.
So for now, I've postponed the search for a VPS. Once the netbook has all cronjobs working, I can migrate in less than an hour.