Welcome, SkyHost!  They’re a Pakistani hosting company that is bringing us some cheap VPS and cheap shared hosting offers in Germany.

• Get a 1GB VM with 50GB of HDD space for $5/mo!
• Or cPanel hosting starting at $3/mo!

Always interesting to see how hosts try to stand out.  Sky Host‘s pricing isn’t exceptional but 50GB of HDD to start is on the high side, so if you have large-ish storage needs, these guys may be a fit for you.

They are registered in Pakistan (5942212). Their Terms of Service is available on their web site (Privacy Policy). They accept Bitcoin, UBL Bank Transfer, Jazzcash, Easypaisa.

Here’s a little about Sky in their own words:

“We are a Pakistani web hosting company. We, at the SKY HOST not only Endeavour to provide you with the best services of cheap web hosting in Pakistan but to help you in initiating and growing your business securely and at a high speed.

SKY HOST office is located in Lahore, Pakistan. The best international web hosting in Lahore standards are rendered by the SKY HOST to our clients. Our team is available 24 hours to support and resolve your issues via e-mail and live chat. We work with the best professionals in the country holding rich web hosting Company experience of years, who have a great command and firm grip over all the latest technologies of web hosting. A complete team is all ready to serve about web hosting in Islamabad and domain registration you just at a click.”

Have you been a Sky customer? Please share your experience in the comments below.

Now read more to see the offers!

NETWORK INFO:

• Hetzner (Germany)
• Test IPv4: 95.217.255.81
• Test file: http://hel.icmp.hetzner.com/1GB.bin

HOST NODE INFO:

• AMD Ryzen 9 3900
• 128GB RAM
• 5x 4TB HDDs
• 2x 2TB SSD
• Hardware RAID10
• 1Gbps uplink

raindog308

Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.

Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.

His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.

You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.