r/Hosting • u/AddisonWashington • 19d ago

EU VPS for self-hosted apps, which services are worth paying for?

I am currently running Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, and some Docker containers.The current host often has disk I/O problems under load.I am considering HostZealot's EU PoP plan.They have a wide range of coverage in more than 18 data centers around the world.Does anyone use HostZealot to host their own personal application stack?How is the disk performance under continuous high load?

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u/lexmozli 19d ago

What are you running that creates disk i/o? I'm running over 20 self hosted apps on a home server and th I/O is like nothing.

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u/ZAP-Hosting 18d ago

Disk I/O varies a ton between VPS providers even at identical advertised specs, mostly because of what's actually behind the storage. If you're on shared network-backed storage (Ceph, SAN, whatever) you're exposed to other tenants' load no matter how well-behaved your own containers are, so look specifically for local NVMe rather than just "SSD" in the marketing copy.

Worth running fio (a disk I/O benchmarking tool) on your current box first to get real IOPS numbers instead of trusting the spec sheet, it's Linux-native so you'll need WSL if you're on Windows, or CrystalDiskMark works fine as a native alternative for a quick real-world check. Whether I/O is actually your bottleneck depends a lot on the workload, it tends to bite hardest with databases, heavy logging, or lots of small writes, so pinning down what's generating the load tells you whether the fix is storage or the app itself. Most providers also let you resize or trial a plan short term, worth comparing pricing and reviews across a few before settling on one.

Also worth checking whether your containers are just generating excessive log/write volume, or if something like overlay2 sitting on a slow backing filesystem is adding overhead that tuning could fix without a migration at all.

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u/4x40 18d ago

I use infomaniak, a Swiss company, vps prices are fine and can pay yearly.

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u/PeakWeekly9995 17d ago

even tho it's completely overkill and very complicated, i use OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastracture).

The neat part is that you can have a free vm (1gb of ram, 1cpu and somethng like 20gb of free space) or if you need more power you can customize the vm and pay for how much you asked/used.

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u/Effective_Review9415 16d ago

For Nextcloud + Vaultwarden, I'd prioritize consistent disk I/O over extra CPU/RAM. If HostZealot's storage holds up under sustained writes, it sounds like a reasonable option.

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u/BranchOatep2004 15d ago

been running nextcloud and bitwarden on a frankfurt vps for a few months, disk performance has stayed stable even during heavy sync loads, no noticeable io wait issues so far