I should add - I use Vultr right now, and I think the have the most rock-bottom prices if you don't need a ton of RAM - I was hosting all my stuff quite comfortably on their $2.50/mo plan up until I started trying stuff with heavier, always-on backends
Sigh so it turns out my server CPU spikes are actually a RAM issue as
kswapd0frantically runs around shuffling stuff in and out of swap, and that in turn is because this little app is at any given point using up 20-30% of my RAM.Admittedly this is because I only have 1GB of RAM, but 0.5-1GB is where pretty much all the cheap hosting starts. And CPU/disk/bandwidth is not generally a problem, just RAM (which is why I actually moved up from my original plan in the first place). So - anyone got any favorite budget hosting companies for unmanaged Linux VPSes?