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Looking for small VPS to contribute to ntppool.org, particularly in less popular locations
Hello,
after collecting some low end deals I decided that the best way I can give back to the community is to run public NTP servers as part of the ntppool.org project. So my Christmas time mission is simple: collect more small boxes for a low price or if someone wants to giveway their idler or if a provider wants to sponsor one, that will be obviously the most welcome 
You can check out my profile at https://www.ntppool.org/a/jnd and I promise you all collected servers here will be contributed right there for a good cause and regularly maintained - I'm donating my time too. Running a NTP server doesn't need a lot of power or memory, it can still serve million clients at peak, but has some specific requirement to be useful:
- As it should be long term reliable service I need at least yearly plan, longer is nicer
- One stable IPv4, IPv6 is welcome but ultimately not needed as most client still use mainly IPv4
- Port 123 open, this should be easy but I saw one provider explicitly blocking the port for some reason
- 1 core, 512 MB to 1 GB RAM is enough, in underserved regions the weaker cpu might be loaded more heavily, going over 50% at working hours
- Traffic is more important, 1 TB/month is the bare minimum (average sustained 3Mbps, don't need more than 100Mbit for peaks). Unfortunately the underserved regions like India and Asia in general would use significantly more, otherwise I have to throttle down the ntppool DNS reply rate but I understand the traffic is expensive there
- Only not so well served locations are needed, which means: Outside of EU, Asia besides Singapore, Oceania besides Australia, Africa outwside of South Africa, South America (possibly outside of Brazil), Mexico and other states around there. USA and Canada look well covered but my couple servers there still manage to pull 5-10 Mb/s on average if I leave it on full throttle so maybe there's a little demand for more too. See https://www.ntppool.org/zone/@ and click around to get an idea
- My budget is generally up to $20 per year but the less it will cost the more of them I can afford to buy and give to the ntppool project. I'd rather choose quality over quantity in places where it's needed the most (and where are not outright dictatorships) but all offers are welcome!
Example of nonsustainable rate (traffic cap wise) on my well loaded Mumbai VPS :
Comments
Check @onidel
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/201017/onidel-xmas-new-year-offers-3-8-tb-mo-object-storage-2-vcpu-4-gb-ram-60-gb-nvme-for-2-5-mo#latest
Not much point, it won't be accurate and you'll need 2-3 better servers to get time from.
Why do you think it won't be accurate? I offer high quality service running modern Chrony which is tracking hand picked collection of mostly close by stratum 1 servers. It usually gets you sub 5 millisecond accuracy on the first sync from loaded server already and then it gradually gets better over time as the network delays and jitter get filtered out, sub millisecond accuracy is definitely possible. Of course your client will use multiple sources and pick the most accurate ones, that's the whole point of the NTP pool.
For example my basic Virmach Ryzen node now handles steady stream of 10 Mb/s up and 10 Mb/s down, load is around 25% and it's tracking very well:
I think it looks prety good isn't it?