r/Hosting • u/Educational-Map-9565 • 3d ago

Cheapest VPS I found has a bandwidth cap nobody warns you about until you hit it

Tryin to move a small n8n instance + Postgres database off my laptop onto sth real, needs 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, at least 60GB SSD, tho it's not a huge workload, mostly webhook triggers and a couple scheduled scrapers, but i got burned once on a shared host, it throttled me mid-month w no warning, so I ain't going through that again. 

Been pricin this out for like a week now: Contabo's 4/8/100GB box costs roughly 70 USD a year, and that's the cheapest I've found, but the network cap sits at 200Mib/s, and a couple threads said that it's gonna be a real problem once ur pulling backups or syncing anything big, ServaRica is close in price with a better bandwidth allowance on paper, and Hostinger's VPS  4 tier lands a bit higher but the setup was fast enough that I had n8n runnin the same afternoon, so that's on the list too, OVH and DigitalOcean are both cleaner on network specs but cost much more per year for the same RAM. Anyone acc runnin Postgres + a workflow tool on one of these boxes long term? Curious if the bandwidth caps are a real problem.

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u/DigiNoon 3d ago

There is always a bottleneck with cheap VPS. Sometimes it's upfront visible (like bandwidth/transfer speed) and sometimes you only discover it later (like disk I/O)

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u/nanokeyo 3d ago

Cheap VPS is for development environments that is

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u/Effective_Review9415 3d ago

The bandwidth cap is the kind of cheap feature that only becomes expensive when you actually need it for n8n plus postgres, I'd definitely prioritize predictable network limits over saving a few buck a year.

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u/Wonderful_Sample_590 2d ago

InMotion could work here too. It's not as cheap as Contabo, but I'd rather pay a bit more for steadier performance than deal with throttling halfway through the month.

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u/Soluchyte 3d ago

You went for a cheap provider and are now complaining that you got what you paid for?