8 things to run on a €1.50 LXC VPS

A container VPS from €1.50/mo is not a toy - it is a full Linux server with root access, a dedicated IPv4 and NVMe storage. It is just cheaper because it is a lightweight LXC container sharing the host kernel instead of a full virtual machine. That makes it ideal for the huge category of jobs that need to be always on but do not need much muscle. Here are eight of them.

1. Discord & Telegram bots. Always-on, low-memory, restart-friendly - a bot is the textbook LXC workload. 2 GB RAM handles several at once.
2. A reverse proxy / edge. Run Caddy, Nginx or Traefik in front of your other servers for TLS, routing and caching. Boots in a second, sips RAM.
3. Uptime & metrics monitoring. Uptime Kuma, Grafana + Prometheus, or a healthcheck cron watching your other machines from outside your main network.
4. A private Git server. Gitea or Forgejo for your own repos and CI runners, without paying per-seat for a SaaS.
5. A VPN / WireGuard endpoint. Your own exit node with a dedicated IPv4 - fast to set up, cheap to keep running 24/7.
6. Small web apps & APIs. A Node, Python or Go service with a small database. Docker runs fine inside for easy deploys.
7. Scheduled jobs & scrapers. Cron jobs, backups, scrapers and webhook receivers that just need to be reliably on.
8. A game-server control panel. Host Pterodactyl or a lightweight panel to manage your game servers from one place.

What to leave to KVM

The only things a cheap LXC VPS will not do are the kernel-level ones: your own custom kernel, nested virtual machines, or loading kernel modules. If you need those, step up to a KVM VPS - same EU hardware, full hardware virtualization. For the eight jobs above, LXC is the smarter spend.

Spin one up in seconds: LXC VPS from €1.50/mo, or compare it with a full KVM VPS.