25 x PERPETUAL $1/Year VPS GIVEWAY !! Netfront AS4658

Manoj2

Will use for demo site design.
Btw Why is AS4658?

ayerfton

@netfront said: Ask a question about AS4658, or state your planned use of this perpetual $1/Year VPS in this thread!

probably a monitoring & globalping node, along with some small backup services in case i'd ever need them

Starnberg

Thanks for the nice giveaway!

I'd use the VPS to provide regional NTP service, as monitor, and as RIPE Atlas probe.

tridinebandim

honkong will be a nice addition to my idling vps team

Kimalainen

Does AS4658 enforce strict or loose uRPF (Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding) at its edge boundaries in alignment with BCP38 to mitigate outbound IP spoofing?

Saragoldfarb

Probably dns slave ... Or idling obviously. Also... My 1$/y vimache could use a twin. Glsw.

somuzer

Question about AS4658: is IPv6 available or planned on these $1/year VPS plans? Thanks for running this generous giveaway — count me in!

netfront

@netomx said:
Question:

Why AS4658 and now AZZ4658?

Our team zzz at different times lol ...

netfront

@ScreenReader said:
a client for uptime monitoring + dns, 16gb is plenty of disk so maybe h@h client.
not suspending after 1TB means can run syncthing relay on it.
if it has good connection to sg, maybe also a nginx proxy.

Thanks. rsync diff is good application of always up pipe. Should also try zfs send/receive to get diff only

netfront

@jingzhen said:
Thanks Netfront for the giveaway! I'd use this VPS as a small personal server for my blog and a few bots. Quick question about AS4658: how's the routing from your Hong Kong network to mainland China — is it direct via HKIX?

We route to china mainly through our regular transit providers.

Onemmt

Interested as well to grab one, will use it for monitoring and VPN.What is the normal price of this server?‌

netfront

@madolche said:
what is the meaning of 4658?
would like a vps to hosting my blog

4658 is an autonomous system number, like an identity number of a company who participates in internet interconnections. Each company mainly uses a single AS number. You can look it up on google or ask AI for AS numbers of different companies. The AS number's first use was to avoid routing loops, by the original internet design.

spikeewoo

Hi @netfront,
I'm curious about AS4658's connectivity to mainland China.
For the three major Chinese ISPs — China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile:
1. Which upstream or peering ASNs are used for outbound routes from AS4658 to each ISP?
2. Do you have direct or optimized routes, such as CN2 (AS4809), CU Premium (AS9929), or CMI (AS58453), or do you mainly rely on standard international transit?
3. How is the actual network performance to mainland China, especially during evening peak hours (latency, packet loss, and throughput)?
4. Are the inbound and outbound routes different?
Would you be able to share some traceroute/MTR results for all three ISPs?
Thanks! I'd also love to use this VPS as a Hong Kong network monitoring and connectivity testing node.

orangedev_nl

@netfront said:

@orangedev_nl said:
The unlimited VPN across ~20 destinations bundled with a node sitting right next to HKIX is a really practical combination for reaching regional networks from a single box. I would use mine as a lightweight uptime monitor for the few small VPS nodes I keep around, with a low-traffic personal site alongside it. One question about AS4658: with the Broadwell-generation CPU showing in the yabs, are there plans to refresh the host hardware down the line, or is the focus deliberately on network quality over raw compute?

And yes, we do provide unlimited VPN services to our VPS customers and we are building a provisioning script for customers to use multiple VPN on their instances to route traffic. Hopefully the script will be done soon.

Baseline-CPU-for-hot-migration is a sensible trade-off at this price point - it is the same philosophy the big shared-cloud vCPU tiers use, and on a HKIX-adjacent node the network positioning matters far more than raw compute anyway. The multi-VPN provisioning script sounds genuinely useful too - routing per-service traffic through different exits from a single box is exactly the kind of small convenience that makes a perimeter node practical to live on. Thanks for taking the time to answer in such detail!

robohost

Ipv6 available?

huangcong

Thanks for this generous giveaway! I'd love to use this Hong Kong VPS as a lightweight personal node — mainly for homelab monitoring and as a low-latency relay on my China Telecom line, plus a playground for learning server administration. The HKIX-adjacent location is ideal for me. Count me in!

VGL

Thanks for the giveaway and welcome to LET!
I’d use the VPS as a monitoring and connectivity-testing node for my personal services. I’m also curious: what are the main upstream routes for AS4658, and are there any plans to further optimize connectivity to North America?
Please count me in!

youtoo

Sweet deal! Would love to use it for monitoring, personal tailscale peer relay, and globalping probe,This is what I want.

netfront

@Onemmt said:
Interested as well to grab one, will use it for monitoring and VPN.What is the normal price of this server?‌

The normal price of this particular server is HK$88 or USD11.28 per month. Yes we know LET has a preferred price cap, we are looking to make special offers to LET members.

The looking glass is https://lookingglass.netfront.net/

@sonder said:
Thanks for the giveaway!

I'd like to use this VPS as a Hong Kong relay and monitoring node for my home lab.

One question: Is the advertised 300 Mbps bandwidth shared or dedicated? Also, is the 1 TB monthly traffic allowance counted in both directions, and does the speed automatically reset to 300 Mbps at the beginning of the next billing cycle after being throttled to 10 Mbps?

Good luck everyone!

300Mbps is shared within total of around 25Gbps. The 25Gbps is far from saturation, sadly or otherwise... Forgot to mention in original post, our traffic calculation is BOTH directions. Speed stays 10Mbps if reached 1TBbytes, and reset to zero bytes and 300Mbps the first day of next month. Thank you!

netfront

@wholecake said:
I would like to use your VPS for a web site.
By the way, are there VPS blocked ports?

We do not currently block ports to VPS. But if the IP reputation turned bad, customers will be denied request to change IP address.

farsighter

I'm planning to use this VPS as an Asterisk VOIP server. Would be really nice

Rocco

Small web site or idling

Ginddc

For AS4658 VPS customers, do you publish a status page or send advance notices for planned network maintenance? If so, where can customers subscribe?

openid

AS4658 or netfront.net ,will be a good host provider?

steeler

Hi Netfront. Glad you are promoting by giving us a chance to test your services with little or almost no cost. Given the size of the VPS I would like to use it as a sensor for my most critical services, and check use cases of VPN, that's a interesting offering. GLWS and thanks again!

brodiechilliam

interested, use case is to play around with firewall or host a small dns server

lvqiuzilu

Thanks for the generous offer, and great to see a HK network that's been around since 1995!

Planned use: I work for a valve manufacturer in Wenzhou and recently moved our company website to a self-hosted Hugo static site. Right now it sits on a US VPS, which is slow for our customers in Asia and the Middle East. A HK box right next to HKIX would be perfect as an Asia-facing mirror of the site, plus light uptime monitoring for our main server. 1 core / 1 GB is more than enough for a static site behind Nginx.

Question about AS4658: how does your routing to mainland China look (China Telecom / Unicom / Mobile)? Do you peer directly or go through transit, and how is latency at evening peak?

Count me in, and good luck to everyone!

Frameworks

Static website.

suut

I love Hong Kong! I can't resist a Hong Kong VPS for just $1/Year!

ymcoming

I will use the VPS for uptime and bitwarden