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Cheapest VPS for simple tasks or telegram bot

Posted on Aug 9, 2022

Review of almost cheapest VPS available on the Internet from one of most reliable French provider.

What is Scaleway

Scaleway, according to Wikipedia is French cloud and hosting company formerly known as Online.net. Online.net was cheap, reliable and good provider for many use cases, it has good peering and good DMCA protection as any French/Dutch provider. They currently offer a lot of different services, starting from cloud one, like s3 clone or container hosting, ending with different dedis, even MacMini M1 instances. Their use per hour pricing mostly, but on order page you can turn switch and check, how many your service will cost you on monthly basis.

Cheapest VPS

Brief

One of most interesting, from my perspective, services they offer - Scaleway Stardust. It’s special VPS mostly for development/testing purposes. And it costs us only around 0.4€ month.

Here what you can get for this price:

It’s not stated on screenshot, but you get 10GB local storage as well.

How to get

Setup account:

  1. First of all - you need to create account on scaleway
  2. Then, you need to create SSH key for your account, to do this you can use PuttyGen, in example, or whatever you find suitable for.
  3. Then, in scaleway console, on right upper side, open profile menu and choose Credentials
  4. There you will have an Add a new SSH key button, press it and paste your public SSH key into field.

Order instance:

  1. In left menu - select Compute -> Instances
  2. Press + button, to order a new one.
  3. Select Datacenter PARIS 1 or AMSTERDAM 1.
  4. Switch to Stardust tab
  5. Select available instance
  6. Choose operating system of your preference
  7. Press Create a new instance button at bottom
  8. After that, your instance will be deployed in couple minutes

So now, to make our instance price as low as mentioned above we need to remove IPv4:

  1. Go to instances page (from Compute -> Instances)
  2. Open your freshly created instance
  3. In field Public IP press Dettach button

Now our instance is IPv6 only, but we still have IPv4 address on our account

Let’s remove IPv4:

  1. Go to instances page (Compute -> Instances)
  2. Open tab Flexible IPs
  3. You will see your recently used IP here
  4. Press 3 dots near it and choose Delete
  5. Type DELETE into field and press Delete button

So from now we have 0.4 euro instance with unmetered bandwidth, 1 core, 1gb RAM and 10GB space, which is suitable to host simple and not CPU heavy tasks, in example, telegram bots.

In case you need to connect to instance:

  1. Download PuTTY
  2. Copy IPv6 from instance page
  3. Paste it into server address in PuTTY
  4. In PuTTY set your private SSH key, in menu choose Connection -> SSH -> Auth and browse for your private key
  5. Press Open in PuTTY to establish connection