Why has NO hosting provider stepped in to capture this $100M+ market?

zejjnt

• Joins LET
• Asks why no one here goes for the high end market
• Acts entitled AF
• Tries to get a free VPS from FOSSVPS without even having read the rules, then tries to i-am-very-important around the rules despite barely having posted.
• Why do you need a free VPS when you apparently shit money to make shit slop; buy some used nVidia, it'll save you money in the long run. And in the meantime perhaps learn to read - both the room and actual text.

EDIT: Of fucking course it's a Nodeseek user, why did I even bother.

JohnFilch123

Somebody on this has said that Claude does not care about DC IPs

zejjnt

Oh and btw, a "reverse whitelist" is actually a common thing, it's called a blacklist.

CloudHopper

@JoshR said:
Now as far as Claude, Gemini, Grok goes. I use a "DC IP" at all times and non of them have issues.

I also exclusively use data center IPs for Claude Code and have had no issues so far. They have my legit details and credit card, but I wouldn't let any AI harness run on a computer that has any of my personal data or logins on it. An agent has already used my private Claude login email in a User Agent without permission, so there's no way I'd run it on a personal device and risk it getting even more creative.

If they ever ban me for using DC IPs I'll appeal and let you all know how it goes, but I've been running it for months on a VPS, and I'm not in a country known for distilling their models, so I'm not particularly worried about it.

OttoWood

@CloudHopper said:

An agent has already used my private Claude login email in a User Agent without permission

That's wild

Obelous

@CloudHopper said:

@JoshR said:
Now as far as Claude, Gemini, Grok goes. I use a "DC IP" at all times and non of them have issues.

I also exclusively use data center IPs for Claude Code and have had no issues so far. They have my legit details and credit card, but I wouldn't let any AI harness run on a computer that has any of my personal data or logins on it. An agent has already used my private Claude login email in a User Agent without permission, so there's no way I'd run it on a personal device and risk it getting even more creative.

If they ever ban me for using DC IPs I'll appeal and let you all know how it goes, but I've been running it for months on a VPS, and I'm not in a country known for distilling their models, so I'm not particularly worried about it.

MJJ prefers DC IP + using the name John burger with the address macdonald street 11, los angels, america

Norway_vps

Just get a residential IP VPN?

forest

@Levi said: Chinese GFW is for a reason, please respect it.

LOL

Void

What in the Kentucky fried chicken fuck did I just read

nghialele

Bro found a gold mine, but bro cry about it

Motion3549

glws

hoho

rich man

dosai

@baoweise what exactly are you doing with this setup?

rcy026

A $100M market but it consists purely of mjj's trying to bypass the gfw...
Is it just me, or is it pretty obvious why providers does not jump on this "opportunity"?

There is not enough money in the world to convince me to take on that customerbase.

CloudHopper

@baoweise said:
I literally threw $400 down the drain—two of my Claude accounts were permanently nuked without a refund, purely because the AI platform flagged my connection as originating from a Datacenter (IDC) IP during a temporary route switch.

To prove how absurd this situation is, here is my actual monthly breakdown

• $60/month for a rented US macOS instance (strictly to get a residential IP, but zero network optimization).
• $16/month for a BandwagonHost (CN2 GIA) VPS just to relay the connection so latency isn't unusable.

I just investigated your slop story in case I need to worry about using DC IPs for my Claude Code sessions, but now I sincerely doubt your accounts got shutdown because of the data center IP.

It's far more likely that the AI identified a user in a restricted region using a highly suspicious setup to access their services in contravention of their ToS, which may have been exposed by your routing mistake, but you certainly aren't using accounts with your own details for this setup so don't act surprised when OpenAI also shuts you down too: https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sales-to-unsupported-regions

kf5ydu

If they see enough requests from a specific ip address across multiple accounts they will know what is going on.

FAT32

Just saying... they dont really block API token usage as much as the normal fixed cost account.

If you really have the budget for it for actual projects, use the API variant and you should be all good.

I got a feeling you are abusing the subscription but hey you probably wont admit it.