Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith

CoFounder • Likes servers over marketing

About

I make things do what people don't think they can do. I'm the person you want but don't know you need. A forum running on 64MB of RAM? I can do that. 1000 servers to network boot & install at the same time? Done. CLI for a printer? Done. Raised in an 8-bit computer shop, repaired C64 power supplies & dual EPYC blades, everything in between is just pattern recognition. BSD, Windows, Linux admin, KVM virtualisation. Cabled datacentres, racked servers, debugged fibre, used an oscilloscope to find faulty chips in hardware older than most developers. I don't specialise. I don't generalise either. I understand how things work, not what buttons to press. New tech? Give me 30 minutes. My memory is terrible. I'll forget why I walked into a room, but spot the pattern to solve a problem in seconds.

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Maker History

  • TierHive
    TierHiveNext generation nat vps hosting - Your home lab in the cloud
    Dec 2025
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    Joined Product HuntDecember 12th, 2025

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Anthony Smith

28d ago

TierHive - Next generation nat vps hosting - Your home lab in the cloud

TierHive - The cheapest NAT VPS hosting per hour with instant deployment, hourly billing, and global distribution, your homelab or dev environment in the cloud, offload your databases, email and compute. Network-first NAT Hourly VPS: your own /24 meshed globally—VPS across regions talk like a LAN. Adjust RAM/disk/priority anytime. 2 forwarded ports per VPS. Free HAProxy + SSL. Email relay, DB offloading, and 1-click recipe system for instant multi-VPS deployments. 1hr minimum, from $0.000135
Anthony Smith

27d ago

Hi, I am Anthony and I am a Co-Founder in a small team that built TierHive - an Hourly VPS Platform

HI I am Anthony,
Honestly, I like servers more than marketing, but if the 8129 podcasts I have listened too on my daily walk have told me anything, I need to be on ProductHunt. I don't know if I am using it right; please forgive my mistakes!
I have a background in computers that goes all the way back to 1984 when I had to stand on a stool to reach the Commodore 64's in my parents' 8-bit computer shop, I have run support and infrastructure departments for large companies like EDS/HP, and worked for companies in the Hosting Industry as well as owned one for 10 years.
If you need your floppy disk drive repaired, I can do that, if your power supply is buzzing, I can fix that, if you need your servers racked and cabled, i can do that, if you need 1000 physical servers world wide to start deploying at once and talk back to yorur billing system all with unique charactoristics, I can do that, I have no idea what I specialise in to be honest, but if you need something and its computer related, give me 30 minutes I will figure it out, I can even write functional yaml in notepad if you want.
I am the person you want but don't know you need yet.
As part of a small team, I helped to build TierHive, an Hourly VPS (NAT VPS) platform that you can use for development or hobbyist activities.
I have actually had this as a personal dream for a lot of years. I always felt the cookie-cutter way of deploying a virtual server was tired and backwards, so we got to work on this as one of our projects at Kernel Keepers LTD.
You get your network first, we allocate a full /24 subnet to you, and then you plonk your services on top of that, think of it like a homelab in the cloud.
Think of it like a totally self-managed infrastructure; DIY SupaBase, it's somewhere between Saas and PaaS but not 100% either, and the pricing.... it starts at as little as $0.000135 per hour (Free tokens to try on sign up, and a $5 minimum top up) if you don't use it you pay nothing, if you need 10 databases and 6 compute servers running for an hour, you only need to pay for the hour, then back to nothing.

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