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IBM doesn’t do public DCs. Their subsidiary Softlayer does.
I think you need to triple your price, though...
https://www.softlayer.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/Store/orderComputingInstance?language=en?language=en&cm_mc_uid=54742791834415093694707&cm_mc_sid_50200000=1509734841&cm_mc_sid_52640000=1509128164
Softlayer used to carter to somewhat lowend market many moons ago (aka WHT level). Then they got purchased by IBM and the rest is debian thx.
Why IBM specifically?
IBM Cloud has a free offer here. They claim:
Lite (Free)
No time limit
No credit card required
256 MB of Cloud Foundry memory
1 instance per Lite plan
App auto-sleep
Service garbage collection
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/pricing
Perfect. Bin people in my area aren't doing a good job.
I'm assuming the OP lives near one or wants that particular site for latency purposes.
However, that link I shared shows SL has 3 DCs in Amsterdam.
That's a CloudFoundry instance though, not a VPS.
Living near to the site is pretty much useless. Overall latency to basically anywhere in The Netherlands are pretty low and living near to the site does not necessarily mean low latency. As an example: the data centre that's on a 10min drive from me has a higher latency from my house than when I reach a data centre in Amsterdam, for the sole reason that my ISP does not seem to peer / exchange traffic with any party other than (on IXs) in Amsterdam.
The sole reason one may want IBM/ SoftLayer might be that he has another server in the same datacentre, maybe that way he can use (free) internal traffic? But looking at the budget of the OP, I would guess he does not own another server there and hence has no real reason latency / financially wise...
Or he wants to boost a fact that his "infrastructure" is based in an IBM owned DC which would sound "cool" on surface.
In its entire corporate history, IBM has never once been cool.
IP address would be my guess.
Not gonna argue with dat.
But when used like this...
"We are the fastest growing #1 web hosting company in the world. (As proof) We work closely with IBM blah blah. We good, U bad."
"Our Partners": IBM
D'oh!
Well I got a free 25 GB of storage out of it, providing I keep using it once a month.
7$