Seeking a VPS Provider with Unblocked Services in Turkmenistan

Gprky

Hello

I am currently in search of a reliable European VPS provider that offers services not blocked in Turkmenistan. My requirements are as follows:

•   Must have a good track record of uptime and support
•   Should provide a decent amount of bandwidth and storage
•   Needs to be cost-effective, aligning with LowEndTalk community standards
•   The datacenter location should ideally be in Europe to ensure better latency
•   Most importantly, the IP range should not be blocked in Turkmenistan

If anyone has recommendations or if any providers can confirm their services meet these conditions, please let me know.

Thank you for your assistance.

emgh

How would they know

yoursunny

@Gprky please post your IP address, so that providers can ping your IP to determine whether it's reachable.

MannDude

Whatever you find today may be blocked tomorrow. There is no such thing as a service provider who can guarantee this. Your government is incredibly restrictive and doesn't want you to have access to the free and open internet.

Most providers won't entertain constantly being asked for a new IP address or to be placed in a new subnet once your government bans your original IP or the /24 that it originates from.

I hate that your government censors your access to the internet but we've pretty much stopped entertaining trying to help. I'm pretty sure our entire AS is blocked in Turkmenistan now anyway.

MikeA

Are you looking for one to use as a public VPN?

Gprky

@yoursunny said:
@Gprky please post your IP address, so that providers can ping your IP to determine whether it's reachable.

Regarding the IP reachability test, it's important to note that ping tests from outside Turkmenistan may not accurately reflect the connectivity within the country due to potential one-way blocks. Traffic originating from Turkmenistan could be filtered or blocked, while incoming traffic from other countries might not face such restrictions. Providers should consider this unique situation to offer solutions that cater to outbound traffic from Turkmenistan effectively

Gprky

@MikeA said:
Are you looking for one to use as a public VPN?

No, I'm not looking to set up a public VPN. I intend to create a private VPN solely for personal use by my family to ensure we have secure and unrestricted access to the internet.

Gprky

@MannDude said:
Whatever you find today may be blocked tomorrow. There is no such thing as a service provider who can guarantee this. Your government is incredibly restrictive and doesn't want you to have access to the free and open internet.

Most providers won't entertain constantly being asked for a new IP address or to be placed in a new subnet once your government bans your original IP or the /24 that it originates from.

I hate that your government censors your access to the internet but we've pretty much stopped entertaining trying to help. I'm pretty sure our entire AS is blocked in Turkmenistan now anyway.

I completely understand the challenge and the limitations given the dynamic nature of internet censorship here. My intention isn’t to impose a burden on providers with constant IP changes. I am merely seeking a provider that has, perhaps, a bit more resilience against these blocks, at least in the short to medium term. I appreciate your honesty, and any guidance or suggestions would still be incredibly valuable.

MannDude

@Gprky said:

@MannDude said:
Whatever you find today may be blocked tomorrow. There is no such thing as a service provider who can guarantee this. Your government is incredibly restrictive and doesn't want you to have access to the free and open internet.

Most providers won't entertain constantly being asked for a new IP address or to be placed in a new subnet once your government bans your original IP or the /24 that it originates from.

I hate that your government censors your access to the internet but we've pretty much stopped entertaining trying to help. I'm pretty sure our entire AS is blocked in Turkmenistan now anyway.

I completely understand the challenge and the limitations given the dynamic nature of internet censorship here. My intention isn’t to impose a burden on providers with constant IP changes. I am merely seeking a provider that has, perhaps, a bit more resilience against these blocks, at least in the short to medium term. I appreciate your honesty, and any guidance or suggestions would still be incredibly valuable.

Do you have any issues accessing Tor or I2P?

yoursunny

@Gprky said:

@yoursunny said:
@Gprky please post your IP address, so that providers can ping your IP to determine whether it's reachable.

Regarding the IP reachability test, it's important to note that ping tests from outside Turkmenistan may not accurately reflect the connectivity within the country due to potential one-way blocks. Traffic originating from Turkmenistan could be filtered or blocked, while incoming traffic from other countries might not face such restrictions. Providers should consider this unique situation to offer solutions that cater to outbound traffic from Turkmenistan effectively

If inbound connections are allowed, this can be solved as follows:

1. Run a WireGuard endpoint at your IP, without making outbound connections.
2. Run a WireGuard endpoint from outside, connecting to your IP.
3. Setup routes so that your traffic goes to the outside WireGuard peer.

Effectively, all traffic flows seen by your ISP would be inbound, but you'll be able to reach outside Internet.

ehhthing

Does AWS no longer work in Turkmenistan?

default

@Gprky said:
Hello

I am currently in search of a reliable European VPS provider that offers services not blocked in Turkmenistan...

jsg

@Gprky said:
I am merely seeking a provider that has, perhaps, a bit more resilience against these blocks, at least in the short to medium term. I appreciate your honesty, and any guidance or suggestions would still be incredibly valuable.

As these blocks seem to be mainly outbound, how would a provider in Europe have a "bit more resilience" against those blocks?

About the only quick and not too burdensome way I see is to ask some providers with a DC in Europe to scan some of their logs for one or a few turkmeni IP ranges. That said I suspect that that idea won't work because while there might be some providers here who are kind enough to do those log scans, writing the relevant turkmeni IP range(s) here highly likely risks that your government will block those too (if they aren't already blocked).

Probably the simplest solution is to not look for a VPS in Europe but rather for one in a country your government more or less trusts. Russia maybe? Turkey?

rustelekom

@jsg said:
Probably the simplest solution is to not look for a VPS in Europe but rather for one in a country your government more or less trusts. Russia maybe? Turkey?

Turkmenistan government block any IP address where they seen VPN/Proxy activity. In some case - by ASN (like this happened with AWS, OVH, Hetzner), in some case by /24 range. Location does not matter. Usually block applied within few days after starting usage.

tsoft

That's all I found.

Provider, origin of provider, type of provider, % of bot traffic, number of ips in Turk

But they may not provide vps... need contact them.

http://online.tm Turkmenistan Business -1% bots 256 ips
http://ws.network Latvia ISP 57% bots 512 ips
http://itproximus.com Lithuania ISP 29% bots 256 ips
http://aynazar.tm Turkmenistan ISP -1% bots 256 ips
http://sanly.tm Turkmenistan ISP -1% bots 1024 ips
http://fibergride.com Seychelles Hosting 65% bots 1280 ips
http://selectel.com Russia Hosting 88% bots 256 ips
http://alfatelecom.cz Czech Republic ISP 44% bots 512 ips
http://mts.ru Russia Business -1% bots 256 ips
http://logicweb.com United States Hosting 60% bots 256 ips
http://telecom.tm Turkmenistan ISP 42% bots 19968 ips
http://m247.com Romania Hosting 31% bots 512 ips
http://orange.com United States Hosting 26% bots 512 ips
http://actn.tm Turkmenistan ISP 36% bots 1024 ips
http://tmcell.tm Turkmenistan ISP 19% bots 256 ips

Gprky

@yoursunny said:

@Gprky said:

@yoursunny said:
@Gprky please post your IP address, so that providers can ping your IP to determine whether it's reachable.

Regarding the IP reachability test, it's important to note that ping tests from outside Turkmenistan may not accurately reflect the connectivity within the country due to potential one-way blocks. Traffic originating from Turkmenistan could be filtered or blocked, while incoming traffic from other countries might not face such restrictions. Providers should consider this unique situation to offer solutions that cater to outbound traffic from Turkmenistan effectively

If inbound connections are allowed, this can be solved as follows:

1. Run a WireGuard endpoint at your IP, without making outbound connections.
2. Run a WireGuard endpoint from outside, connecting to your IP.
3. Setup routes so that your traffic goes to the outside WireGuard peer.

Effectively, all traffic flows seen by your ISP would be inbound, but you'll be able to reach outside Internet.

Thank you for the suggestion. However, I am currently using a setup that involves v2ray in conjunction with Cloudflare and Fastly CDN, which serves my needs by utilizing inbound connections to circumvent restrictions. It has been effective so far.

Anthony2016

@Gprky: Please send a message to: https://support.nvpn.net/Tickets/Submit
They might be ablte to help you.