Cloud2SME VS Low End Box

No: plenty of shared hosting providers for asp.net apps: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/hosting. Source: 10 months ago

Ah but while MS SQL costs extra in Azure, most ASP.NET hosters don't change extra for that. I am looking at myasp.net, fozzy.com, accuwebhosting.com, m6.net and others from this page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/hosting. Source: 12 months ago

With VPS you will need to care about the OS: update it, configure firewall etc. Check other shared hosting providers first, Microsoft even has a list: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/hosting. Source: 12 months ago

Not necessarily: if you don't expect A LOT of traffic, simple shared ASP.NET hosting will be more cost-efficient (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/hosting). Source: about 1 year ago

As for shared hosting, with 1 request every two seconds, your website could be one of the most noisiest on the server: most websites on shared hosting lie dormant for the better part of the day. If your website requires ASP.NET, take a look at this provider list: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/hosting. Source: about 1 year ago

We normally recommend using Amazon's AWS "Free Tier" or Digital Ocean - but both require that you have a credit card. The same is true of the Microsoft Azure, Google's GCP and the vast majority of providers listed at Low End Box (https://lowendbox.com/). Source: 5 months ago

I get them from the aggregator https://lowendbox.com when companies offer deals; some have been great, some poor, but all very cheap; I think $14/year has been a decent one. Although my current one only has 512MB RAM and isn’t enough for Rust to compile Scryer Prolog. Prolog, a language first run on the computers of 1971 and standardised around 1998. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

FWIW, I recently found a VPS offering for $1.41/month (!) @ 1.5GB RAM & 30GB HDD via https://lowendbox.com/, at https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/black-friday-2022 (please note I have no idea how reliable it is though!). I managed to deploy NixOS there through nixos-infect (https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Hetzner is still expensive for a blog. Check out offerings on http://lowendbox.com/ you can get a 4GB/2vCPU for like $45/year. Year, and not month. That is the kind of margin these big brand sellers have. I have been using a couple for the past 3-4 years and been pretty nice so yeah. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

If your goal is to minimise costs, some of the cheaper providers that have offers on https://lowendbox.com/ will have reasonable annual discounts. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago