https://tihost.io/en/blog Tihost VPS articles: plans and prices, data centers in Germany, Finland and Poland, AMD Ryzen 9, plus guides to SSH, HTTPS, Docker, PostgreSQL, backups, VPN and bots. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tihost.io/en/blog/buy-vps-tihost https://tihost.io/en/blog/buy-vps-tihost Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform To buy a VPS on Tihost, sign in at tihost.io with email, Google or Telegram, top up your balance from $0.10 with crypto or a card, then in «Buy Server» pick a location, configuration, OS and term and press «Pay and Create». The server is deployed in about 2 minutes; the login and password appear right away and the IP address on the server card. The Telegram bot @tihost_bot follows the same steps. https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-api-automation https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-api-automation Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform The Tihost API is an HTTP JSON API at https://api-public.tihost.io/v1: the key is issued in the panel's «API» section or in the bot and sent in the Authorization: Bearer header. The API can buy a server (POST /servers), renew it, reboot it, reinstall the OS and reset the password; the limit is 60 read and 10 write requests per minute per key. https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-aeza https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-aeza Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Comparisons A 1 vCPU / 2 GB server costs $4.00 a month at Tihost (40 GB NVMe) and €5.93 on the Aeza Shared plan or €8.49 on Dedicated (30 GB NVMe), per Aeza's website on October 5, 2026. Aeza wins on locations (11, including Russia and the US), hourly billing and up to 25 Gbps ports; Tihost wins on price, larger disks, period discounts of up to 20% and Telegram bot management with no KYC. https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-hetzner https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-hetzner Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Comparisons A 1 vCPU / 2 GB / 40 GB NVMe server costs $4.00 a month at Tihost and €11.99 excl. VAT at Hetzner Cloud (CPX12), per Hetzner's website on October 5, 2026. Hetzner wins on hourly billing, US and Singapore locations and its API ecosystem; Tihost wins on price, Windows at checkout, crypto payments and sign-up without KYC. https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-digitalocean-vultr https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-digitalocean-vultr Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Comparisons On comparable plans Tihost is cheaper: 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM cost $7.70 a month versus $24 at DigitalOcean and $20-24 at Vultr (as of October 5, 2026), and DDoS protection is included. DigitalOcean and Vultr are stronger on global data center coverage, per-second or hourly billing, included traffic quotas and managed services. https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-timeweb-selectel https://tihost.io/en/blog/tihost-vs-timeweb-selectel Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Comparisons Timeweb Cloud and Selectel mean data centers in Russia, prices in rubles and hourly billing: a Selectel VPS/VDS starts at 200 RUB a month and a Timeweb Cloud server in Germany at 710 RUB (as of October 5, 2026). Tihost means VPS in Germany, Finland and Poland from $4.00 a month in US dollars, paid with crypto or a card, and sign-up without KYC. https://tihost.io/en/blog/shared-hosting-vs-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/shared-hosting-vs-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics Shared hosting is space for a website on a common server run by the provider: PHP, MySQL and a control panel are ready, but there is no root access and you can only run websites. A VPS is your own virtual machine with root access and guaranteed resources: it runs bots, Docker, VPNs and any ports, and prices start at $4.00 a month. Shared hosting is enough for one or two PHP sites; everything else needs a VPS. https://tihost.io/en/blog/how-much-ram-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/how-much-ram-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics A Telegram bot, a VPN or a landing page runs fine on 1 vCPU and 2 GB of RAM, WordPress and a small Docker stack on 2 vCPU and 4 GB, an online store or CI on 4 vCPU and 8 GB, databases and modded game servers need 8 GB and up, and a local LLM on the CPU needs 16 GB or more. Size the disk 30-50% above your current data and judge memory by the available column of free -h. https://tihost.io/en/blog/linux-vs-windows-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/linux-vs-windows-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics Linux is the default choice for a VPS: websites, bots, Docker, VPNs and databases run on it with 1-2 GB of RAM, and you manage it over SSH from the command line. Windows Server is needed when software runs only on Windows - MetaTrader, many 1C configurations, .NET Framework applications; it needs at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and you connect to it over RDP with a graphical desktop. https://tihost.io/en/blog/ubuntu-vs-debian-server https://tihost.io/en/blog/ubuntu-vs-debian-server Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics For most VPS the best choice is Ubuntu LTS (5 years of standard support, the most guides) or Debian (about 3 years of support plus LTS to 5 years, a minimal and conservative system). AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are for when you need Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatibility and 10 years of support per release - for example for cPanel. CentOS Linux 7 reached end of life on June 30, 2024, and new servers use AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux instead. https://tihost.io/en/blog/nvme-vs-ssd https://tihost.io/en/blog/nvme-vs-ssd Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hardware NVMe is an SSD attached over the PCIe bus with the NVMe protocol: it is not capped by SATA III's limit of about 600 MB/s and handles up to 65,535 command queues instead of SATA's one. For a VPS running databases, websites and builds, the main advantage of NVMe is more IOPS and lower latency on small random operations, not sequential speed. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-benchmark https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-benchmark Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hardware VPS performance is checked with four measurements: CPU - sysbench cpu on one thread and on all threads; disk - fio with random 4 KB reads and writes; network - iperf3 between your own servers; host overload - the st (steal time) column in vmstat. Results are only comparable between servers tested with the same commands. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-glossary https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-glossary Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics A VPS is a virtual machine with its own OS and root access on a shared physical server, a vCPU is a host CPU thread assigned to that machine, and NVMe is an SSD on the PCIe bus, several times faster than SATA. A 99.9% SLA allows about 43 minutes of downtime per month. Below are 42 such terms grouped into servers, hardware, network, access, Linux and rental terms. https://tihost.io/en/blog/ssh-connect-to-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/ssh-connect-to-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides To connect to a VPS over SSH, open a terminal (PowerShell or Windows Terminal on Windows 10/11, Terminal on macOS and Linux), run ssh root@SERVER_IP, accept the server's key fingerprint by typing yes and enter the password. For everyday use, create a key with ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and copy it to the server - logins then need no password. https://tihost.io/en/blog/windows-vps-rdp https://tihost.io/en/blog/windows-vps-rdp Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides You connect to a Windows VPS over RDP on port 3389: on Windows with the built-in Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc), on macOS, iPhone and Android with Microsoft's Windows App. You need the server IP, the login (Administrator on Windows Server) and the password; after logging in, set a strong password and limit RDP to your own IP in Windows Firewall. https://tihost.io/en/blog/domain-to-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/domain-to-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides To point a domain at a VPS, create an A record named @ with the server's IP address in the domain's DNS settings, and for www either a CNAME to the main domain or a second identical A record. A new record usually shows up within minutes, a changed one after the old TTL expires; check the result with dig +short your-domain. https://tihost.io/en/blog/nginx-letsencrypt-https https://tihost.io/en/blog/nginx-letsencrypt-https Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides To serve a site on a VPS over HTTPS, install nginx, write a server block with your domain and a proxy_pass to the app, open ports 80 and 443 and run sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com. Certbot gets a free Let's Encrypt certificate, sets up the HTTPS redirect and renews the certificate on a systemd timer. https://tihost.io/en/blog/nodejs-app-on-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/nodejs-app-on-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides To keep a Node.js app running 24/7 on a VPS, install the current Node.js LTS release from the NodeSource repository, create a dedicated user for the app, move secrets into a .env file and run the process under PM2: pm2 start, then pm2 save and pm2 startup. nginx faces the internet on ports 80 and 443, and new code ships without downtime via pm2 reload. https://tihost.io/en/blog/postgresql-on-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/postgresql-on-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides On Ubuntu and Debian PostgreSQL installs with a single sudo apt install postgresql and listens only on localhost by default. Create a dedicated role and database for your app, reach the database from your own computer through an SSH tunnel instead of exposing port 5432 to the internet, take a daily pg_dump -Fc, and start memory tuning with shared_buffers at about 25% of RAM. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-backup https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-backup Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Back up a VPS by the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of the data, on two different media, one of them off the server and site. Copy data, configs in /etc and database dumps rather than the whole system - the OS reinstalls in minutes. restic is the most convenient tool: it encrypts and deduplicates backups, keeps history by a policy such as 7 daily, 4 weekly and 6 monthly snapshots, and runs nightly from a systemd timer. https://tihost.io/en/blog/wireguard-vpn-on-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/wireguard-vpn-on-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides A personal WireGuard VPN takes 20-30 minutes to set up on a VPS: install the wireguard package, generate keys with wg genkey, describe the tunnel in /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf with address 10.8.0.1/24 and port 51820, enable packet forwarding and NAT, open 51820/udp and run systemctl enable --now wg-quick@wg0. A phone connects by scanning a QR code, and the smallest plan is enough for one or two people. https://tihost.io/en/blog/minecraft-server-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/minecraft-server-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides A Minecraft Java server running Paper needs about 2 GB of RAM for a few friends and 4-8 GB for a small community or mods. Versions 1.20.5 and newer require Java 21; run the server as a systemd service under its own user and open port 25565/tcp. https://tihost.io/en/blog/ollama-on-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/ollama-on-vps Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Ollama runs open language models on a VPS without a graphics card, on the CPU alone. Per the Ollama README, 7B models need 8 GB of RAM, 13B models 16 GB and 33B models 32 GB. Generation on a CPU is noticeably slower than on a GPU, so such a server suits chatbots, summarization and classification of modest volumes of text. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-plans-comparison https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-plans-comparison Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plans Tihost offers nine VPS configurations in three lines - Starter, Advanced and Power: from 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 40 GB NVMe at $4.00 per month up to 16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM and 450 GB NVMe. Every server runs on AMD Ryzen 9 with KVM virtualization, and paying for 3, 6 or 12 months upfront gives a 10, 15 or 20% discount. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-location-choice https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-location-choice Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Locations Germany and Finland have the same hardware (AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 1 Gbps) and the same prices from $4.00 per month - choose by where your users are. Poland is newer and faster (Ryzen 9 9950X, up to 10 Gbps, every configuration up to 16 vCPU / 32 GB) but about 25% more expensive. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-germany-falkenstein https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-germany-falkenstein Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Locations Tihost VPS in Germany are hosted in a Tier III data center in Falkenstein and run on AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPUs with NVMe disks and a 1 Gbps uplink. Eight configurations are available - from 1 vCPU / 2 GB at $4.00 to 12 vCPU / 24 GB at $49.00 per month. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-finland-helsinki https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-finland-helsinki Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Locations Tihost VPS in Finland run in a Tier III data center in Helsinki powered by 100% green energy. Inside are AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPUs, NVMe disks and a 1 Gbps uplink; prices match Germany: from $4.00 to $49.00 per month across eight configurations. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-poland-warsaw https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-poland-warsaw Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Locations Tihost VPS in Poland are hosted in a Tier III data center in Warsaw on our newest hardware - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) with DDR5 memory, NVMe disks and networking up to 10 Gbps. All nine configurations are available here, including 16 vCPU / 32 GB - from $5.00 to $77.50 per month. https://tihost.io/en/blog/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-vs-9950x https://tihost.io/en/blog/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-vs-9950x Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hardware Every Tihost VPS runs on a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9: the Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen 3, up to 4.9 GHz, DDR4) in Germany and Finland and the Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5, up to 5.7 GHz, DDR5, AVX-512) in Poland. The 9950X is faster per core and much stronger at vector workloads; the 5950X is cheaper for the same vCPU and memory. https://tihost.io/en/blog/starter-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/starter-vps Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plans Starter is Tihost's most affordable VPS line: three configurations from 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 40 GB NVMe at $4.00 to 4 vCPU / 4 GB / 140 GB at $12.30 per month (Germany and Finland prices). It suits VPNs, Telegram bots, landing pages, small websites and test environments. https://tihost.io/en/blog/advanced-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/advanced-vps Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plans Advanced is Tihost's main workhorse VPS line: 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 180 GB NVMe at $15.40, 6 vCPU / 12 GB / 240 GB at $24.00 and 8 vCPU / 12 GB / 260 GB at $28.00 per month (Germany and Finland). It is the choice for websites with real traffic, Docker stacks, CI and multi-user Windows servers. https://tihost.io/en/blog/power-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/power-vps Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plans Power is Tihost's most powerful VPS line: 8 vCPU / 16 GB / 300 GB NVMe from $32.00, 12 vCPU / 24 GB / 350 GB from $49.00 and 16 vCPU / 32 GB / 450 GB at $77.50 per month. The last one is available for new orders only in Poland, on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with up to 10 Gbps networking. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-features https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-features Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform Every Tihost VPS is a KVM virtual machine with full root access, an NVMe disk, a public IPv4 address and DDoS protection at no extra cost. It is deployed in about 2 minutes, managed from the web panel, the Telegram bot @tihost_bot or the API, and its uptime is covered by a 99.9% SLA with downtime compensation. https://tihost.io/en/blog/pay-vps-with-crypto https://tihost.io/en/blog/pay-vps-with-crypto Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform A Tihost server is paid from your balance in US dollars, and the balance is topped up with crypto or a card. Heleket (direct crypto transfer) and Russian cards or SBP (LAVA, Platega) charge no fee; CryptoBot in Telegram adds 3%, LZT Market 5%. Top-ups start at $0.10 and are credited automatically. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-vs-vds-vs-dedicated https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-vs-vds-vs-dedicated Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basics VPS and VDS mean the same thing today: a virtual server with its own OS and root access on a shared physical machine. Historically, VPS meant containers (OpenVZ) and VDS meant full virtualization, but almost everyone now uses KVM and the names became synonyms. A dedicated server is a whole physical machine: you need it when even a large VPS is not enough or the task requires special hardware. https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-first-setup https://tihost.io/en/blog/vps-first-setup Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Right after the VPS starts, update the system, create a sudo user, set up SSH key login and disable password and root logins, then enable the UFW firewall and fail2ban. It takes 15 minutes, and after that the password brute-forcing that bots run against every server on the internet stops being a threat. https://tihost.io/en/blog/install-docker-ubuntu-debian https://tihost.io/en/blog/install-docker-ubuntu-debian Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides Install Docker from Docker's official repository rather than the docker.io package: that gets you a current Engine and the Compose plugin. Right after installing, cap container log size, and remember that Docker publishes ports around the UFW firewall - expose only what should be reachable from the internet. https://tihost.io/en/blog/telegram-bot-on-vps https://tihost.io/en/blog/telegram-bot-on-vps Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guides To keep a bot online around the clock, run it on a VPS as a systemd service: the code lives in its own directory with a Python virtual environment, the token in a .env file with mode 600, and systemd brings the bot back after a crash or a server reboot. A polling bot needs no domain and no open ports; a small bot fits the $4.00-a-month configuration.