VPS providers¶
Note
This doc is written for the hosting section of the getting started guide. Please take a look if you don’t know how to host Red on a VPS.
This is a list of the recommended VPS providers.
Warning
Please be aware that a Linux server is controlled through a command line. If you don’t know Unix basics, please take a look at this guide from DigitalOcean which will introduce you to the Linux basics.
Linux hosting¶
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Incredibly cheap but powerful VPSes, owned by https://online.net/, based in Europe. |
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US-based cheap VPSes. The gold standard. Locations available world wide. |
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Cheap VPSes, used by many people. French and Canadian locations available. |
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Cheap VPSes, seemingly based in Lithuania. |
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More cheap VPSes! |
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US-based, DigitalOcean-like. |
Others¶
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Amazon Web Services. Free for a year (with certain limits), but very pricey after that. |
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Same as AWS, but it’s Google. |
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Same as AWS, but it’s Microsoft. |
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Same as AWS, but it’s Oracle. |
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A curator for lower specced servers. |
Self-hosting¶
You can always self-host on your own hardware. A Raspberry Pi 3 will be more than sufficient for small to medium sized bots.
For bigger bots, you can build your own server PC for usage, or buy a rack server. Any modern hardware should work 100% fine.
Free hosting¶
Other than that… no. There is no good free VPS hoster, outside of persuading somebody to host for you, which is incredibly unlikely.