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What's the Best Value VPS Provider? Price to Performance Ratio
In this video we explore recommendations for the best price:performance value VPS provider for most people. We dive into comparisons on server price and egress costs as well as if running a VPS makes sense vs choosing a Cloud or PaaS.
Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-08_best-value-vps
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - What makes a VPS valuable?
02:55 - The best VPS providers for your money
03:40 - Comparing VPS server prices
05:10 - Comparing VPS egress costs
07:45 - Should you run a VPS?
11:00 - The VPS Provider I use
Links:
- How Cloudflare Container Pricing Compares - Google Cloud Run, AWS Fargate, Azure Containers, Railway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDW4QqNQE7c&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Hosting my Docker Container on a VPS with Coolify as a PaaS with GitHub Autodeploys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRQT7Plndk&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why I'm Ditching Coolify for Ansible for Deploying my Web Apps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9xL8o_7mk&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
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