You can use "htop" command to view current CPU, RAM and SWAP usage, also see which process is taking up how much of each resource. And if you want to collect data over time, you can use a monitoring agent like https://hetrixtools.com/ to monitor network, cpu, ram, disk access etc all of the time. Source: about 1 year ago

HetrixTools about the best free service I've used that includes that. Source: about 1 year ago

You can use hetrixtools Uptime Monitor for free. Https://hetrixtools.com Better Uptime is also good. Https://betterstack.com/better-uptime. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm using Ziply and they have been pretty much rock solid. I have a free uptime service via https://hetrixtools.com/ and they claim that in 2022 my uptime percentage is 99.9990%. And likely some of that is when I have decided to reboot my router. Source: over 1 year ago

Perhaps monitor from outside though unless you run it yourself I don't think every second would be easy to find. A couple of possibilities: https://hetrixtools.com/ and https://uptimerobot.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

I've got a dedicated machine for $30/month. It's ancient, a xeon L5640 with 16 GB ram, and 1 TB spinning disk, but it's dedicated and it works great. Well actually, the first one stopped working well, and I got a replacement with double those specs for the same price; and the second one is working great. I also run with full disk encryption, because I don't trust their opsec on wiping drives, so that's a bit of a... - Source: Hacker News / 21 days 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: 6 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 / 7 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 / 8 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 / 9 months ago