Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

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39 points | by speckx 1 hour ago

7 comments

  • assimpleaspossi 1 minute ago
    RamNode does $2/month but just one ipv6 address. Add a ipv4 address and it's $4/month.
  • githubholobeat 15 minutes ago
    You can even go completely free with Cloudflare tunnel with your own office/home hardware. I have a simple web running on my old Raspberry Pi 3 + nginx + golang web app. Also with ssh access to the Pi.
  • 8by3 1 hour ago
    I've always gone with Vultr (vultr.com) for BSD VMs, its properly supported by them and while I've never hard verified this, they seem like a nice smaller player. Like they have offered Open/Free BSD VM's for > 10 years, kind of nice.
    • darksim905 12 minutes ago
      The admins have access to your data and unless things have changed, that isn't monitored. They also bend to NSLs like any other provider. What they charge vs what things cost hurts.
    • SoftTalker 1 hour ago
      I used buyvm.net for BSD a while back. Didn't have any issues, and the few times I contacted their support they were quick to respond and helpful.

      rootbsd.net before that, but they don't seem to exist anymore.

  • cedricgle 53 minutes ago
    Does DigitalOcean still only propose up to 4 basic cpu as droplet maximum ?. All their compute capacities disappeared overnight 2025/2026 without any reason.
  • slekker 1 hour ago
    For a little bit more you can rent on https://openbsd.amsterdam - they also donate to the OpenBSD foundation!
    • leonheld 19 minutes ago
      Man I always look at this project with nothing by awe. I'd love to start something like this... if you're in central Switzerland and would like to copy their model, hit me up.
    • 8by3 1 hour ago
      They are cool, man they've grown. I used that when there were ~20 VM's on there. Its a great project but think its only physically in Amsterdam which is why I ended up moving back to vultr, as they have many more options.
  • Scarbutt 20 minutes ago
    Crazy that after so many years of cloud compute a 8GB VM is $48/mo.
  • daneel_w 34 minutes ago
    I run OpenBSD at netcup.de for €2/month. It's very low-spec, but it's enough.