I'm about to start working on a side hustle and my pockets are not deep. The niche I aim for has speciffic understanding of data privacy and security, this will result in many vm's I'll have to deploy and maintain. Also I need to be able to deploy VM's in Sydney as well as in Europe, both in UK and in EU.
My pockets are shallow and I have to save on hosting. Also each instance can be very small, I have conducted some tests and it seems I will be able to utilize $5 nanodes from Linode. I looked their API and also their Ansible collections- it looks promissing.
Can you share your experience with Linode? Or maybe you have good experience with other provider you can vouch for? I'm happy Linode user since 2011, though to date I was only spinning 1 or 2 instances at a time.
As of alternatives, I usually host my stuff, as you can’t have a good performance on a VPS without paying premium, so if performance is your priority (as you don’t have any specs listed. hard to tell if you are focusing on CPU, RAM, etc.), I don’t think $5 or any entry level VPS will do.
Not associated, but have been using them for some personal infrastructure lately - it's a really nice platform. If you have strong isolation requirements they have bare metal options too.
It may not matter and you may be able to DIY, but e.g.
- encrypted volumes
- confidential compute
- more detailed coverage on certifications e.g. SOC2 and equivalents (not everything is covered etc)
- support for SSO and other authentication mechanisms
- private VPC (all instances are currently public)
There’s likely more and Linode is decent for small businesses but definitely not if your focus is security and data privacy.