This post is not sponsored, nor will any of my posts be.
I tend to lean towards cloud over on-premises solutions when hosting just about everything, and thus I noticed Inmotion’s great deals on VPS servers. I made it out with an unmanaged server rocking an Intel CPU with 8 vCPUs, 16GB of RAM, and 260GB of SSD storage. This came out to a final total of $29.99 per month (billed monthly, however you can save more being billed annually). I would consider this as a high-end server, compared to what I was working with previously.
In terms of speed, I was not entirely impressed, though it’s performance comes in it’s ability to handle a lot of tasks. I have over 20 Docker containers running on it, with no noticeable lag (especially nice for Nextcloud when disk speeds count).
I have noticed several tradeoffs, especially with their control panel. I was quoted $12/month for my first month on WHM, then $20/month after first the month elapsed. Their free control panel comes with the essentials, and focuses on total control. Thus, firewalls are managed through iptables over a web dashboard. Additionally, there is a noticable 10+ second page load delays on their “backend” (as in their shop section provides amazing page load speeds, while their backend is slow as a turtle).
While there are many minor downsides, the deal itself is not something I would typically pass up, and thus I believe I will be hosting with them for a while.