Deliberately seeking a VPS with a somewhat bad connection

slowservers

@TrikeLike said:
@slowservers you are one cool hosting provider! Love to see OpenBSD in the wild, might nab one of your servers for another project of mine at some point.

Thank you! That would be great!

@slowservers said:
@TrikeLike how about Starlink? Too stable? Starlink+WiFi?

If I were to do this, it would be IPv6-only.

How much bandwidth usage do you have in mind?

For bandwidth usage it doesn't need to be great (even 50kb/s would be fine), latency and chaos are more important factors for my use case. I have tried mobile networks for testing but they're too reliable these days, at least where I live. Also tried Starlink once in the woods, and that was unstable enough to work for this use case, but heading out to the middle of nowhere every time I want to ensure that my clientside handling of weird network conditions is... very inconvenient.

I agree that IPv6 is better for testing over, in fact I've already been using it. I use netns to trap my client's network access to a veth that rotates to random IPv6 addresses in my /64 during my torture tests to ensure that my application sessions survive IP changes

I have a residential lite Starlink plan and a Mini with the standby, very low bandwidth plan. My hope is to take the Mini out camping to check work, but that'll happen a few times a year if I'm lucky.

Might be possible to set it up in a less-than-ideal configuration and host a VPS with a /64 from it.

I couldn't do it any time soon, but possibly in a few weeks to a month, if you were interested.

chenxuhua

Any available zone in mainland China

dbadude

@TrikeLike said:
I would be mildly upset at greater than $5/mo for the VPS and would not consider more than $15/mo. Should have at least 10GB of disk, 512MB of RAM, an x86-64 or ARM CPU (no 32-bit), and ideally a high bandwidth cap (although not unlimited). IPv4 is optional (but would be a plus), I can work with just IPv6 if needed. Any ideas?

maybe setting up a vps with a dialup connection like its 1999?

Ananchoreta

If IPV6 is enough: euserv.com and their free instance. Unstable Packet loss featured with high load up to 180. (Seem to "resell" 1blue also a good provider to see what oversell can do for the network.)
Can not guarantee you uptime or that up s

fluffernutter

I can give you a free VM on one of my clusters, the network is really flaky and I struggle to get over 100mbit out of it. Just PM if you want one.