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Researching demand for VPS and dedicated servers in South America
Hello everyone,
I'm wondering if there is demand for VPS, shared hosting and dedicated servers located in South America, southern Chile.(900km south of Santiago)
My company is building a green data center that uses the waste heat for drying firewood, initially it was going to be used for mining machines but since crypto took a dive and power here isnt that cheap we are trying to repurpose it for more typical data center workloads. We have Xeon E5 v2 and Opteron 62xx and 63xx machines, I hope they aren't too old. We also plan to offer dedicated Ryzen 3600 machines, turns out you can fit 9 mobos inside one of these 4u gpu mining chassis.
Thank you for your helpful comments!
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How much is bandwidth / etc?
I get a lot of outbound clicks on the South American VPS listings on ExoticVM.com and I can say that people are interested in those locations.
no IPs from lacnic I would assume so it's going to be expensive to offer VPS. But I know it is something people would like to have available.
Yes.
Bandwidth would start at 100 Mb national and 20 Mb international, as we scale up we will be able to offer more.
Yes, v4 IPs are very expensive here, only the big DCs in the capital can manage less than 5 usd per IP due to bulk rates.
We might start offering dedicated servers and higher end VPS due to this, but we plan to offer twice the resources for the same price as the cheapest providers in Chile and also accepting paypal and crypto payments.
South American market is underserved as of now, so I would say having a location there is good. Of course, the IPs and bandwidth are limited but that is true for almost every location except Europe and North America.
We are open for business! We have a 100Mbps uplink to all of South America, the deal we managed to get was limiting the international downlink to 10Mbps. So serving content will be fine, uploading it might be a little slow.
We have an HPC background, so we built an Infiniband network for all of our servers and dedicated servers too. As we grow we will be able to upgrade to 1Gbit in a few months.
Congratulations, wishing you great success!
I wouldn't bother. Everything latam is heavily overpriced. Further more the network is terrible in most locations, forget about DDoS protection as well.
We used to run game servers in Sao Paulo and players even had a better ping to our US based servers. If you want to serve SA I would just go for a Miami based DC with good connections to SA.
Especially shared hosting, I think most people there will just purchase US based services and enable Cloudflare for better latency. Much cheaper.
IMO this is the current situation. Routing is so bad here in Ecuador that yeah, I get a better ping to NA West than Brazilian servers
The problem with South America is like Africa, the majority of South American Tier 1 carriers switch traffic in Miami instead of locally unless its Brazil (Sao Paulo). There's no real interconnection between the different carriers in South America, they just source their transit in Miami/New York/Washington. Your better off serving South America from Miami unless its the Brazilian market where there's a national internet exchange.
MTR test in Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina:
https://pastebin.com/1HBZF1YK
Maybe Miami had better pings 10 years ago?
Results of the demo (IPv6 only - $ 1 / m)
Quite interesting price range compared to OpenCloud and ZGH
The free tier is quite limited, CPU is capped to 40% and you get 500 iops or 50/MBs writes.
I'm sure there would be lots of interest, but expect high fraud rates. From our experience it's around 30%. It's this reason alone that we don't operate in the region and should be carefully considered by anyone looking to enter the market.
Regarding DDoS Protection, there is options in Brazil. You aren't going to get the level of protection you are used to in US and Europe however.
Which countries in your experience have the highest fraud rates?
@jfrac Brazil (primarily) but also Argentina and Chile
We reopened the one year free trials! They now have all IPv6 ports unlocked. We are in the process of obtaining our ASN number from LACNIC, so once its done in a few months you will get a free IPv4. Limited quantity available. (LACNIC asked us to get 30 more clients)
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