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Exotic VPS in the Gulf
BeardyUnixGuy
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I realized that my LEB collection is missing a VPS from the Gulf region: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and others.
From my own research, I understand that this region is pretty darn expensive. However, is anyone aware of any providers that are near LEB-friendly pricing?
Budget is roughly $10/m (maybe a max of $15) for any small VPS, and no preference over the virtualization/container technology.
I don't need any Israeli providers since EDIS already has it covered, and I'm not looking for PM/custom deals.
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Nope. No chance this time.
From the other thread:
Ouch! You're crushing my hopes and budget! But thanks for the brutal honesty.
hi, may i suggest you find the closest route "best peering country" and host there. I say this from experience and why not try.
@ehab, any provider you can recommend? Maybe from Egypt?
Israel has a few but yea, as you said - EDIS (not the cheapest btw).
There was Nashirnet in Saudi Arabia which at times was cheaper than 10EUR (and had/has PayPal) but raised pricing to min. 21$ now.
Outside of that yea, UAE has providers (and cheap power) but you get (by the upstream duopoly) 1TB traffic or like 5Mbit unmetered for as much as 100$...
...actually, it's $51. There's a $30 "location fee" if you want to be in Saudi Arabia.
Agree, I like EDIS for the simple reason that I can get VPSs around half the global from a single provider.
Yea, I saw them mentioned a while back on LET. When researching, before I posted, I saw their $21 cha-ching price tag and immediately ran away.
Wow! I'd like to say "nice find" but that just makes things even worse and disheartening.
Considering how modern Dubai and Abu Dhabi are, I would have thought them to at least have some providers with pricing comparable to the rest of the world.
Seems like my VPS world collection is going to have to continue missing the Arab gulf for a few more years
I.e. Frankfurt, Germany?
Thanks @rds100 but I was actually for something in (or near) that region for VPS
hoardingcollecting purposes.no exact answer but what i recall was find the main isp and get network info "from where are they renting" or the line etc ... and get the closest provider on same line.
havent't tested it but this location is good to have always.
Interestingly, Bamboozle offers UAE OnApp virtual servers...
I saw it on the OnApp cloud directory.
Yes, they are who i use as well.
Looking at nashirnet's server location, latency from Frankfurt should be 20-30 ms.
check here bro
https://www.exoticvps.com/region/middle-east
And nothing in that list is near LEB pricing
You can try https://www.citynethost.com/
nope =(
you should try to contact them to get a better price.
Wait, I was wrong. There is HostLB in Lebanon for $6.99/mo. But when I go to the URL they list at exoticvps...
https://www.hostlb.net/cloudservers.php
...I get a funny message that concludes "If you try to do Illegal actions against our website our lawyers are seeking some asses to judge".
Hell yeah, bitches. Judgment Day.
Going to hostlb.net redirects to b-whatsapp.com which is...I don't know or care but it isn't a VPS in the Middle East.
You dream of what at night btw?
I dream of finding something as hilariously unlicenced and cheap as huaqiangbei markets in the states
It's the same company, but their primary focus is now on violating other peoples' terms of service and selling "spam messenger app users for money". The LEB VPS range is at https://lfait.com/cart.php?gid=22 now
Why would someone need a VPS in Saudi Arabia?
I salute @BeardyUnixGuy 's quest to enhance his VPS collection. There are worse Pokemon variations one could play.
@Four20, there is no need required when someone's LowEndAddiction is at work.
I needed one a year ago, for a small project (website that checks if a domain is blocked or not in SA), didn't really want to pay anything more than $10 a month. Obviously I didn't find any, so I ended up creating a small VM and started using it. Worked like a charm, specially since I already have a decent internet connection (FTTH).
But yea, I get the "VPS Collecting" addiction thing. Good luck finding what you need.
Sounds to me like you are/were residing in Saudi? You still there?
Yes. I'm from SA and I live there.
Remember, what other non gulf providers see as normal behaviour might be considered indecent and will haul you into a lot of legal headache you dont even want ...
If however, it is for some small services where only you would use it - should be fine.
Albeit not lowend, but in Dubai we have these
https://www.aeserver.com/my/cart.php?gid=9 (1TB bw)
http://www.etisalat.ae/nrd/en/business/products-and-services/products/cloud/etisalat-cloudcompute-packages.jsp (just 10GB of bandwidth ...)
Tried both for local projects, all seems fine - except for the fact that we can get much better resources by going to neighbouring countries or even the EU.
Not really, they have zero legal chance to ever extradite you out of any sane country or make you pay shit.
Yea, i also had the weird experience that Nashirnet was seemingly only half ass censored (sort of what people told me is the difference between educational/gov user and normal user, Iran has a similar separation)...
What do you have, 100/100? Static IP? STC i guess (lol what else)? Would sell IPs to them (they pay good) but the process for me is... complicated...
Yeah. Just remember to keep out of insane ones, otherwise you may end up behind the bars instead of enjoying your stay in one of those luxury Dubai hotels after you'd made your first million in the low end box market.