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Improvements
Hi everyone,
For those who don't know us yet, we are Strike.bz, a no-KYC, (rather) privacy-focused VPS (depends on definition) provider. I'm skipping the marketing pitch today because I'm looking for genuine input on how to improve our services (or rather keep me busy).
I’m currently putting together our To-Do list, and here’s what’s on the radar:
Planned:
- Moving away from Cloudflare: This is already in progress to ensure sovereignty.
- Tor & I2P mirrors: Coming as soon as the Cloudflare transition is complete.
- Anycast IPs: Given our PoPs in North America, Europe, and Asia, we think this makes sense. Does this hold real value for your setups?
Current "Hard No's":
- BGP sessions: To remain compliant with Polish law without being forced into mandatory traffic logging (which applies to "telecommunications providers"), we are opting out of BGP for now.
- Tor exit nodes: Not feasible until we own our IP ranges outright.
Recent Upgrades:
- New network infrastructure in Gdańsk (using RETN as upstream) (will be a thing in few days, our clients already received an email about this).
- Routed IPv6 subnets in Gdańsk (Singapore is next, USA will not have this for now).
What else are we missing? What features, payment options, or technical changes would make you choose us as your provider? Or what would make you even happier as our current customer?
Looking forward to your suggestions.
PS: Sale will be coming soon, if we will not be sold out again 
Comments
excited about RETN changes, i hope that cuts down my latency
You can check it now, just ping this IP:
144.79.59.1@3K33 I noticed the recent update about routed IPv6 subnets in Gdańsk and was wondering if you could please clarify something.
Will IPv6 be automatically assigned to VPS instances in that location, or will it be available upon request?
Everything is assigned automatically (always was), if you have not restarted your service from before that announcement, for routed to work, you need to stop and start the server from panel. You can check your IPv6 subnet in panel.
Nice to hear
Will you replace cloudflare with anything else?
Honestly, I'm very happy as it is now. Payment options are also pretty sufficient (better than i've seen on most other providers) and the service itself has also been really solid!
that actually increased my ping by 5ms, not what i was expecting
Bunkerweb self-hosted WAF, perhaps in some time it will be also anycasted.
Sad to hear that, mind sharing MTR (in dm's) to new IP and to old one (151.245.112.15)? I will do my best to do some improvements over the days.
sure ill send you a dm. i get best results if a provider supports arelion in poland
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$7/y.
Yeah I would also love to order some cheap RAM sticks
Nice updates, thanks for sharing with us!
Looking forward to sale !! For features I am not your user so I dont know if you already have this, I would love to see firewall option similar to onidel and advinservers !!
I've created a small tool based on @jimaek 's globalping to test overall difference in latency between two IPs across regions.
Overall, it looks like RETN (144.79.59.1) seems to be an improvement compared to the artnet network (151.245.112.15) they're using right now.
However looking at the individual probes, it's clear there are some networks which have somewhat higher latency with RETN:
Unsurprisingly, russia seems to be benefiting the most (over 21%) from their transit provider:
disclaimer: i know this comparison may not be fair since i'm using RETN's router and artnet host so technically the latency is up to a ms higher, but artnet's router (151.245.112.1) for whatever reason had packet loss when pinging from globalping
Same re. Sale
Same I havent had service with him yet 😝
15 ms difference from RU POPs between 144.79.59.1 and 151.245.112.15 (retn is better of course).
Waiting for deals.
Nope, not yet. While I could enable something like this in Virtualizor, I wouldn’t personally trust their firewall.
Time to move from virtualizor !! Virtfusion is the way.... Not used solusvm but heard even thats more stable and secure then virtualizor.
What is the fair usage?
Just don’t use 40TB monthly for 4 months straight on 2€/mo plan, we manually try to resolve the problem if it becomes an issue at any point.
While I agree, I do not like Virtfusion deployment way, not all of our clients are tech savvy enough (this would introduce unecessary tickets) and sending the password via email is easiest. Some might say it is not secure (as talked in other thread), but on the other hand tech savvy client will change the password after login
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And i'm not even starting that there is no easy way to migrate between both. We are still at way too small scale to just wait it out and replace new nodes with Virtfusion. I cannot have idling nodes until they become unused.
Nah, they will add the SSH public key and won't use password based authentication
If I may ask: is it recommended to halt one's VPS before the network upgrade tomorrow? Or do you not plan to reboot the VPSes at some point during the network upgrade?
offering $7 dollar chicken?
The servers will be rebooted, we will try to gracefully shutdown each service before, but whole hypervisor will be shutdown during this outage.
We already did!
Bruh everything is sold out
Temporaily as we are on maintaince right now. Stock will be added again throughout the day.
my VPS is back up, but ipv6 is not working anymore
Maintenance must be stressful, hopefully 3K33 will resolve it soon 🙏
newsletter update about ipv6:
"IPv6 (Poland & Singapore): Currently unavailable while we await a filter update from our upstream providers. We expect this to be resolved within 24 hours."
i ran a yabs and looks like 10gbps port now, thats a big upgrade