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From what I tried last year, the old VPS days are over. Anti-fraud has ruined it. Having valid payment and email is not enough, and even with that it will take

by _8j50 4y ago

From what I tried last year, the old VPS days are over. Anti-fraud has ruined it. Having valid payment and email is not enough, and even with that it will take days to provision one. I tried digitalocean, OVH and several big names and wasted a ton of money for a VPS I needed right away. Just get a gcp,azure or aws compute instance. Hassle is all you'll get with VPS these days. I can't believe it is so hard to pay someone to provision a VM. They need my phone, i have to go through approvals and so much other bs. 4-5 years ago I was able to get a VPS and a domain with some bitcoin within a few hours. Now some places have the audacity to ask for ID verification.

zamnos 4y ago
http://www.rapidseedbox.com http://www.rapidseedbox.com still accepts BTC for payment (according to https://help.rapidseedbox.com/en/articles/1088663-how-to-pay-for-your-seedbox-with-bitcoin-and-bitcoin-cash-easy-secure https://help.rapidseedbox.com/en/articles/1088663-how-to-pay...), if that's your jam.
throwaway81523 4y ago
Go on lowendspirit.com there are plenty of VPS with no hassle.
- neets 4y ago
  I just added lowendspirit.com to my bookmarks bar, thanks
neets 4y ago
Can you expand on this with personal examples? For example, where were you getting VPS's with Bitcoin?
- throwaway81523 4y ago
  I don't use BTC but buyvm.net accepts crypto through coinpayments, whatever that is. prgmr.net (now tornadovps) accepts payment by check or money order, https://tornadovps.com/documentation/make-payment https://tornadovps.com/documentation/make-payment I had trouble getting a CC payment to work with another small VPS host, and they let me pay in cash (literal currency through international mail), but maybe that doesn't count since I was an existing customer they were familiar with, not a new sign-up. But if you're trying to run stuff on VPS's and you don't have any existing hosting relationships and you're trying to pay with BTC, that sounds odd.
  - _8j50 4y ago
    Thank you, I will check them out, I think I just googled VPS and went with the top results.
unmole 4y ago
As someone who regularly sound up temporary servers in Digital Ocean, I have no idea what you're talking about. There has been absolutely no change whatsoever in how it works in the last 10 years or so.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
  Agreed. I regularly use dozens (yes, dozens) of VPS vendors all over the world and never ran into this problem. Maybe this guy is signing up for a new account using an Iranian IP address and credit card a from blackhatforums.com.
- _8j50 4y ago
  Have you tried doing so with a new account? Or 10yo account?
  - unmole 4y ago
    Both.
    - _8j50 4y ago
      Well then maybe they all started flagging my VPN IP? But i was willing to do cc payment and phone verification. DO never created my account but OVH and one other place took my money and put me on hold for like a week until I needed the box no more.

by _8j50 4y ago

zamnos 4y ago

http://www.rapidseedbox.com http://www.rapidseedbox.com still accepts BTC for payment (according to https://help.rapidseedbox.com/en/articles/1088663-how-to-pay-for-your-seedbox-with-bitcoin-and-bitcoin-cash-easy-secure https://help.rapidseedbox.com/en/articles/1088663-how-to-pay...), if that's your jam.

throwaway81523 4y ago

Go on lowendspirit.com there are plenty of VPS with no hassle.

neets 4y ago
I just added lowendspirit.com to my bookmarks bar, thanks

neets 4y ago

Can you expand on this with personal examples? For example, where were you getting VPS's with Bitcoin?

throwaway81523 4y ago
I don't use BTC but buyvm.net accepts crypto through coinpayments, whatever that is. prgmr.net (now tornadovps) accepts payment by check or money order, https://tornadovps.com/documentation/make-payment https://tornadovps.com/documentation/make-payment I had trouble getting a CC payment to work with another small VPS host, and they let me pay in cash (literal currency through international mail), but maybe that doesn't count since I was an existing customer they were familiar with, not a new sign-up. But if you're trying to run stuff on VPS's and you don't have any existing hosting relationships and you're trying to pay with BTC, that sounds odd.
- _8j50 4y ago
  Thank you, I will check them out, I think I just googled VPS and went with the top results.

unmole 4y ago

As someone who regularly sound up temporary servers in Digital Ocean, I have no idea what you're talking about. There has been absolutely no change whatsoever in how it works in the last 10 years or so.

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Agreed. I regularly use dozens (yes, dozens) of VPS vendors all over the world and never ran into this problem. Maybe this guy is signing up for a new account using an Iranian IP address and credit card a from blackhatforums.com.
_8j50 4y ago
Have you tried doing so with a new account? Or 10yo account?
- unmole 4y ago
  Both.
  - _8j50 4y ago
    Well then maybe they all started flagging my VPN IP? But i was willing to do cc payment and phone verification. DO never created my account but OVH and one other place took my money and put me on hold for like a week until I needed the box no more.