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Interested locations for virtual servers?
I'm interested to hear what locations that users are interested or providers will do well. They will be considered more 'exotic' and rare to find.
Excluded (common)
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Germany
- France
- Romania
Luxembourg
-Singapore
Not viable:Iceland
The costs for hosting in Iceland is incredibly high due to import taxes, hardware and bandwidth costs. Most networks in Iceland pass through the UK with sub par transit providers such as Cogent. Even though may be known for 'privacy sensitive', other countries can be better.Greenland (no public offers available).
- Georgia (mainly co.ge and inbound connectivity is Level3 via Sofia only).
- China
ICP license in China makes situations very difficult. Port 80 can be open or closed depending on ISP. There are many cloud providers available already.
Asia
- Please write your input.
Hopefully at LEB prices!
Thanks!
Desired locations?
- Where would you buy a virtual server in Europe?75 votes
- Estonia4.00%
- Sweden9.33%
- Finland/Denmark/Norway33.33%
- CIS region (Russia, Belarus etc)12.00%
- Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia etc)10.67%
- Cyprus/Greece10.67%
- Spain6.67%
- Others! (please write)13.33%
- Where would you buy a VM in Asia?75 votes
- Taiwan12.00%
- Hong Kong20.00%
- South Korea17.33%
- Kazakhstan30.67%
- India13.33%
- Others! (write in post)6.67%
Comments
You don't consider France as common? lol
I've edited
I have also added a poll.
I'd be interested in Japan (VPN). Many services are restricted outside of the country.
It's not really exotic (as the market is developed), but I don't see low end offers.
Are there not already offers at Linode, providers that use Softlayer and such? True, which there is a less amount of low end offers in Japan.
Many of the locations you listed aren't actually that exotic.
I only see these as exotic locations out of those you posted: Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Kazakhstan
Linode is cheap but not by LE* standards
CIS locations, like Belarus.
https://www.google.com/search?q=vps+site:by
I also tried Vultr, but even their lowest package isn't a low end price.
If you only need it for VPN, why not LES.
True but the 75Gb of bandwidth is a real bottleneck
$5/mo is within LE* price guidelines.
Don't get me wrong, $5 is still cheap considering what they offer. The point is that I need less RAM and disk and paying something I use 10% of its capabilities it's not ideal. LES would be great but again, 75 GB of bandwidth are quite limited.
Not going to happen, BY law requires records of every customer (including ID copy) which in turn requires a BY ID card. Activesolutions sold "cloud" in BY before to foreigners (after sending passport, address and payment proof) but stopped because of that (and partly because their Russian bank that processes their CC charges forced them to stop).
Payment to Belarus might as well also violate embargoes (UN, US, EU - Human rights issues and no free elections (or elections at all)) of your country (very similar to Iran but not as strict) - Even just buying with knowledge that (part) of this money ends up in Iran/Belarus/North Korea/Eritrea (and some others) can be illegal already.
Not true. There is no import tax for servers (specifically excluded) and BW is ~4EUR/Mbit (Backhaul to UK) to ~15EUR/Mbit (Mixed Backhaul to UK and Canada)
what about Poland (Polska) ?
How much stuff are you streaming every month?
Scandic locations always interested. Kazakhstan as a exotic location
I'd say 500GB to be safe.
How do you watch all this stuff?
Indonesia (jakarta or Surabaya)
I was looking at all the activecloud regional websites and I saw that in the Russian one you can pick Europe location which according to their datacenter page is DPC Beltelecom. Does this means that Russians IDs are accepted? Do you think foreigners can order it going through the Russian company?
It's me and a couple of friends
Poland, small and cheap. 128MB KVM or Xen for around $20/yr
Who consider this, which human rights? EU and US sanctions against Russia just returned back by restrictions for foreign banks for payments in Russia and CIS. Even Ukrainian LiqPay stop accept non CIS credit cards for payments for now
Anywhere cheap that allows warez
Hong Kong and South Korea. I've seen 1 Core/4GB Memory/50GB Disk/300GB Bandwidth for around $60 a year in Korea. but I want LEB ones.
Although it may not be advertised as an LEB provider, that price meets the LEB standards at $5/month.
Mmm... any offers in Hawaii?
Also Alaska and Puerto Rico