Are there any folks here who have set up hosting for Pangolin in the EU and if so; what hosting options have you chosen? Are there any good free tier options?
I’m also keen on finding a platform which supports terraforming the setup for the VPS, firewall etc.
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I’m not using Pangolin, but a 1€/month VPS from IONOS serves as my nebula lighthouse.
Is the 1€/month price permanent or a limited time deal where it will go up later? Because I didn’t see that kind of pricing on their site which wouldn’t go up to 12€/month after a year.
No, it’s permanent. They call it “VPS XS”, here (in german). Sadly a initial one-time payment of 10€ required, I forgot about that.
On ionos.com the same VPS costs $2/month. No one-time payment though.
The unique selling point of this VPS for me was the low price combined with unlimited traffic. Sometimes my nebula lighthouse needs to proxy traffic for peers that can’t talk to each other directly. It’s nice not to worry about traffic then.
That’s interesting, I’ll have to look into that again, they seem to have a server location option that is EU which looks nice, I’ll just need to find out which countries that actually refers to.
How do you handle certificate renewals?
Ha, that’s a good question: I don’t. I chose a rather long time for the certs validity and then promised to myself that I will extend my ansible playbook when I need to.
OVH is not free, but very cheap
I don’t know of any free tiers in the EU, however, very cheap options do exist. Not in the EU, but one of my VPS runs $25 USD a year. It’s a pretty capable little server, and at $25 USD, it’s about as close to free as you going to get. Take a look at
https://lowendbox.com/. You might find something poking around there.Not free, but if you can find them, https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances/ are pretty cost effective.
I created an account on Scaleway just to check prices, which seem to be the same as Hetzner. But looking around online I find that people are heavily in favor of Hetzner over Scaleway due to reliability and service, so I’m leaning more toward Hetzner.
Fair enough, I also recommend finding hetzner’s referral links to get some free credit initially when u sign up.
