Vibehost was born after butting my head against some Lightsail problems while trying to deploy vibe-coded apps for my day job [not in tech]. I realized my non-work development plans would have the same challenges.
Off-and-on searching for 'real' hosting uncovered some deals that would be hard for average new vibe coders to find.
As the idea for this site was cooking...
.. it seemed like the perfect excuse to eat my own dog food and get a dedi box. There was a great deal on a 512GB server with DDR4 memory that I missed, but the resulting fomo was enough to pull the trigger.
Specs of what we got
For the princely sum of $54/mo, we got:
- 2x Xeon E5-2670 v2 (40 threads @ 2.5ghz)
- 128GB of DDR3 RAM (slow but whatever)
- 2x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs
- 100TB of bandwith (1G link)
This is mad decent-- typical servers at that price level are older E3s with less RAM, storage, and bandwith.
At Vultr or DigitalOcean, the most you can get is 24 threads and 96GB of RAM for... wait for it... $640/mo.
Experience with Heymman Servers
The deal was posted by Heymman Servers. A brief search on the forum revealed they have been around for over a decade and the only complaints were from customers with clearly unrealistic expectations.
The signup was straightforward without frills. There is a clear disclosure that deployment can take up to 48 hrs. In my experience, it is useful to take smaller providers at their word.
At roughly 50 hours after purchase, my server appeared to be provisioned but stuck in a 'pending' state.
vibe check: passed
I opened a ticket, and the support interface is very clear about your obligations as a server administrator:
Love. It. No coddling. Put your big boy pants on.
Within 15 minutes, Francis (the owner) had gotten back to me with a nice reply thanking me for my patience, saying the server was up, and containing my login details.
I logged in and it was as advertised, and ready for whatever Claude churns out next.
The server was deployed with Debian 13, which has some changes relative to 12. I installed crowdsec, set up the firewall rules, and began plotting out how to best use the box in upcoming projects.