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Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of wh

Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of why this is "not so good". Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.

BraveKenny 11y ago
> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. As opposed to all those famously Switzerland-based companies such as AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean...
valarauca1 11y ago
If your concerned with privacy friendly VPS then you really can't purchase virtual servers in any western country. I suggest you look into eastern europe where you can purchase server time in BTC.
antjanus 11y ago
Probably not the best place to run a seedbox either.
lobster_johnson 11y ago
Boxes like these are extremely popular as BitTorrent seedboxes. Online.net, for example, is huge, and not just in Europe; people run FTP servers on these things and copy stuff over to their home servers. I would say that $3.40/mo is pretty competitive.
onli 11y ago
> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. They are explicitly advertising VPNs, but even though I live in France I'm not sure whether the situation there is secure enough. France is collecting internet logs, and a server has its own IP, is a VPN then even useful? > It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess. More than static. I installed serendipity (a blogging engine, think wordpress) there and it worked good enough for me to assume that it would work fine with medium traffic as well. Got a pretty good impression otherwise. The thing that bothered me most was that the free test month was not a full month, but till the next accounting period – 14 days for me. Cut my time short to test it. But you can imagine that if that is my sole complain, it was fine otherwise for me. A solid site and their scripts to build images worked fine.

BraveKenny 11y ago

> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. As opposed to all those famously Switzerland-based companies such as AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean...

valarauca1 11y ago

If your concerned with privacy friendly VPS then you really can't purchase virtual servers in any western country. I suggest you look into eastern europe where you can purchase server time in BTC.

antjanus 11y ago

Probably not the best place to run a seedbox either.

lobster_johnson 11y ago

Boxes like these are extremely popular as BitTorrent seedboxes. Online.net, for example, is huge, and not just in Europe; people run FTP servers on these things and copy stuff over to their home servers. I would say that $3.40/mo is pretty competitive.

onli 11y ago

> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. They are explicitly advertising VPNs, but even though I live in France I'm not sure whether the situation there is secure enough. France is collecting internet logs, and a server has its own IP, is a VPN then even useful? > It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess. More than static. I installed serendipity (a blogging engine, think wordpress) there and it worked good enough for me to assume that it would work fine with medium traffic as well. Got a pretty good impression otherwise. The thing that bothered me most was that the free test month was not a full month, but till the next accounting period – 14 days for me. Cut my time short to test it. But you can imagine that if that is my sole complain, it was fine otherwise for me. A solid site and their scripts to build images worked fine.