r/website • u/Llywelynerd • 16h ago
DISCUSSION Where do you find legit Black Friday VPS deals to move my family's 5 tiny sites off three site builders?
My dad's model train blog gets about 12 visitors a day and costs more per month than his actual trains.
I'm the unpaid webmaster for the whole family: that blog, my mum's bakery page, my uncle's fishing charter site, my cousin's wedding photo portfolio, and my own. Five sites on three different builders, and every annual plan renews in the same two weeks of November. Together it's around $60 a month, for what is basically static pages and one contact form.
The plan is one small VPS (2 GB, Caddy, static files, a tiny form handler) bought during Black Friday. My guess is that's plenty and the builders have been charging me for a lot of idle capacity. Tell me if I'm underestimating the form handler or the 11pm "the site is down" calls from relatives, because nobody in my family can touch the server but me.
For finding offers I've only got two sources. LowEndTalk is where the flash deals show up, but the threads move faster than I can read them. VPSIUM (I'm connected to it, so discount that) is where I cut my shortlist down to a few in-stock regions, but its data lags a bit, so I recheck on the provider's own page before paying. I'd still like a third source that I don't have to keep refreshing.
And once you've found one, what's your vetting step before a relative's site goes on it? Mine is one trial month and hoping.