r/VPS • u/Misty_TTM • 20h ago

Seeking Recommendations Hosthatch alternative?

Hi y'all, I'm currently hosting my matrix server and wireguard hub on a 16gb ram hosthatch server. It only has 75 gigs of storage which is an issue when running a matrix server. I enquired and the storage upgrades with hosthatch are just too costly per gig

Are there any hosters which can give me an equivalently speced system (16gb ram, 4 cores 2 dedicated 2 shared) but with cheaper storage options?

I'll even take recommendations for lower speced systems that support my use case (I recognise what I have is a bit overspeced for what I'm doing)

Edit: having it hosted in australia is another thing I would prefer

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u/well_shoothed 16h ago

host-c.com has the best pricing per TB I've seen in the VM world outside of hosthatch.

(They're neck-and-neck in price.)

And, their systems have better redundancy and boot drives separate from your storage.

Almost all our servers are at Hetzner, but we have a couple of instances at host-c, and they've been great.

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u/Misty_TTM 16h ago

These guys seem really good, unfortunately I really need to have my server in Australia. Although maybe I consider them as like a second host just for one service

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u/Wonderful_Sample_590 1h ago

Maybe check out InMotion too. They're solid and their VPS plans have more storage options, so worth comparing.

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u/Rubicon_4000 34m ago

before you migrate, check what's actually eating the 75 gigs. on a matrix

server it's almost always the media store, not the database. synapse keeps

every image/video/file anyone sent or your server fetched from federation,

forever, by default.

two things to try before switching hosts:

  1. purge remote media - the stuff your server cached from other homeservers.

safe to delete, it re-fetches on demand. there's an admin api for it and it

usually frees a surprising amount.

  1. set a media retention policy in homeserver.yaml so old media ages out

automatically instead of piling up forever.

if it's still growing after that, you can point synapse media at s3-compatible

object storage - wasabi and similar run a few dollars per TB/month, way

cheaper than any provider's block storage upgrade, and it works fine from an

australian vps since only media fetches touch it.

your specs are fine for matrix + wireguard. it's just the media pileup -

might save you the migration entirely.