There are two kinds of people in this world: those who sip coffee in the morning, and those who reboot their cheap VPS server before speaking to another human being. I am proudly the latter.

Running a cheap Linux VPS server means living on the edge — the edge of stability, the edge of sanity, and sometimes, the edge of running out of disk space because I thought 10GB was plenty. Whether it’s hosting a blog that three people read (hi Mom), or spinning up a dev environment that will “definitely be cleaned up later,” cheap VPS life is full of surprises — mostly the kind that say “502 Bad Gateway.”

Let’s not forget the chaos of managing a cheap Windows VPS server. One minute it’s humming along, the next it’s installing 47 updates and refusing to acknowledge your RDP session like a teenager ignoring chores.

That’s why I briefly flirted with the idea of a cheap managed Linux VPS server. The peace of mind! The 24/7 support! The ability to blame someone else when I inevitably type rm -rf / in the wrong directory.

Then there’s the beautiful world of cheap storage VPS server. They lure you in with “big space, low price,” and before you know it, you’ve offloaded your backups, media library, and probably a few things you meant to delete in 2019.

And let’s not forget the cheap container VPS server — for when you want Docker, LXC, and emotional instability all in one place. Containers are like nesting dolls: one crash and suddenly six things are broken and you’re not sure which layer caused it.

So yes, I may be slightly on edge when I haven’t had my morning reboot. But that’s life with a cheap VPS — equal parts budget-friendly and brain-melting.

Now if you’ll excuse me, my server’s ping just dropped, and I need to pretend I know why.