Hosting applications on my own hardware is what I prefer doing if I can. Over time, I learned some applications are best suited hosted elsewhere in the cloud. That lead me to look for a VPS provider. I was talking to a good friend of mine when they mentioned Hosthatch.
There's tons of VPS providers out there and the market is flooded with companies claiming to be the best at cloud hosting. I've tried many and I have to say, when I signed up for Hosthatch, I was impressed. The interface is super intuitive and this makes everything easy to do.
Creating a new VPS with the specs I need is as easy as clicking a few buttons. Granted, this day in age, that's how most of the providers are now. But the fact I'm not nagged to add on extra features I don't need is a big bonus.
My current plan is their AMD Cloud Compute VPS in Chicago. It is a modest setup on paper with 1 CPU core, 2 GiB of RAM, 11 GB of NVMe storage, and 1 TB of bandwidth. I am running Debian 12. For what I need, it has been more than enough. Pangolin is lightweight, but it still needs to be stable because it sits in front of other services. If that goes down, everything behind it feels it.
Performance has been consistent. The NVMe storage makes a noticeable difference compared to older SATA based VPS providers I have used in the past. Disk operations feel snappy. Updates run quickly. Reboots are fast. I do not babysit this server. It just runs.
Network performance from the Chicago location has also been solid for my use case. Latency has been predictable and I have not experienced strange routing issues. For a small but important piece of infrastructure, that reliability matters more to me than flashy dashboards or marketing claims.
Support has also been a positive experience. I have reached out a handful of times over the past two years, mostly for minor questions or configuration clarifications. Each time I received a response fairly quickly. The replies were direct and helpful. I did not feel like I was being bounced around or given canned responses.
I also want to mention transparency. HostHatch does sponsor Noted. I think that is worth stating clearly. I am not being paid any money for this review. I am simply sharing my experience as a long term customer. I value services that quietly do their job well, and that has been my experience here.
If you are looking for a VPS to host something lightweight but important, this kind of setup is more than capable. One core, 2 GiB of RAM, and fast NVMe storage running Debian 12 has handled Pangolin without breaking a sweat. For me, HostHatch has been stable, predictable, and easy to work with. That is really what I want from infrastructure.
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