Hetzner has auctions on dedicated servers that can be really good. But if you just need a vps, check out Contabo.

ionos.de has VPS for 1€/month, which are not that bad. Server locations are Spain or Germany afaik.

For actual hardware: Hetzner. For VPS there are many choices. Digitalocean is cheap and easy, has european data centers, and some decent value add services.

Definitely not good, but very cheap https://lowendbox.com/

Hetzner or Netcup

Hetzner works very well for me.

I personally use scaleway, but for options you can check here https://european-alternatives.eu/

Oracle has an always free tier which provides two x64 AMD based virtual machines. They are more or less cloud based calculators in terms of performance, but out of experience I can tell you it is more than sufficient for a few docker containers.

European locations are available.

Contabo is cheap but has some weird quirks. I pay about five euros a month. My server got mysteriously rolled by two days and they denied anything happened to it. I restored from backups but it was odd.

ovh dedicated kimsufi servers are deadly cheap https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/kimsufi/
hetzner server auction https://www.hetzner.com/sb/

You give up some control, but you gotta check out https://www.pikapods.com/

On a per-app basis, the price can’t be beat, especially at this level of convenience. I host exactly uptime kuma and beszel on there. The owners are also super responsive to things like adding more env vars.

If shared hosting isn't a problem Uberspace might be interesting. I used it as long as i didn't solely self host.

Hetzner is pretty cheap, and have datacenters all over (I mainly use the one in finland). For your usecase, a very cheap VPS shoyld do. If you want a physical machine I can recommend their server auction.

I’ve been using massivegrid. I think I currently pay about $20 a year with a pretty decent about of network. Works for me so far.

Free.

Use Cloudflare to point directly to your server. As a layer of security on top, ensure only certain emails or certain domains are able to get through to them.

I've done this about 1 year ago for my family and works flawlessly. Exposed Nextcloud, uptimekuma, immich, emby, etc. About 8 services.

https://www.lunanode.com/ Only one data center in Canada, but affordable and have used them for years without issues. VMs starting at $3.5/month

Is hosting on a server at your home an option?

Any good cheap VPS for something like Netbird server or Headscale with servers available in the United States.

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Glesys (Sweden) has some affordable vps options.
https://glesys.com/products/compute-category-page/kvm-vps/