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Who is your peferred VPS provider in each region?
Hello, I am curious to know that if you could pick only one vps provider per region (Asia, Europe, America, Africa) that you personally trust for reliability, who would you go with?
The bare minimum I consider is: 99.90%+ uptime, support replies within 8 working hours, balanced pricing vs performance, IPv6 support, basic DDoS protection, good network, being transparent about SLA, AUP and lastly no random suspensions unless you do something which voilates laws!
Share your experience, uptime stats and any hidden gems! I will try most named ones when I get time.
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hmm... The first provider that comes into mind is OVH for every region except for Africa. Not sure who I would choose for Africa.
I wanted to give OVH a try but they held my account and asked for KYC on my first purchase, so I left them. Same story with Hetzner too! I personally dont prefer giving out govt issued ID's unless its extremely necessary!
I have seen few threads here where people have habit of collecting vps from rare locations and I guess afirca comes in that range!
North America: GreenCloudVPS.
South America: we don't have a node.
Western Europe: BuyVM.
Eastern Europe: Hosteroid.
Africa: we don't have a node.
South Asia: Advin.
East Asia: GreenCloudVPS.
Oceania: HostHatch.
We offer pretty much all of that except for the DDoS protection.
Technically, we have basic DDoS protection in all of our locations regardless of service, but it's not something we fully guarantee unless you purchase our DDoS-Protected IP service for an extra $4/IP/month (available in all locations except Osaka and Secaucus). In Europe, a DDoS-Protected IP is included in all services for free.
The only suspensions that usually occur are due to nonpayment or non-response to an abuse complaint. We just onboarded another support member so we have fairly good coverage when it comes to technical or critical support. Sales support can sometimes be a bit slower depending on the complexity. We have routed /48 IPv6 in all locations except for Osaka and Secaucus. We have an SLA and AUP: https://docs.advinservers.com/policies/termsofservice. We have some of the best price to performance in the industry.
We have locations available in Asia, America, and Europe.
https://advinservers.com/cloud
Have you considered our services? We meet all of your requirements - and offer much more. Our infrastructure is available in Singapore, Sydney, Amsterdam, and New York.
Coverage of Asia, America and Europe is huge plus point in itself. I wish you add a India location too! We dont really have any affordable options here as far as I know.
Yes I have created an account, waiting for your offers today!!
I also love your panel a lot. Its superb, and firewall management is also a good option which not many providers have!
The cheapest.
Mzungu my man. Duh.
And for Antarctica there is only one mentally strong choice.
@yoursunny
Lol I initially looked into mzungu after reading your comment, only to find this comment by advin.
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Damn, yeah these larger providers tend to have more systems in place to check orders for invalid info and fraud and it tends to trigger KYC. There are definitely ways to do it.
That is why its great to have providers on here that offer good service without KYC
Actually I dont hesitate giving out my real information to the providers. What makes me irritated is they dont even tell what exactly is triggering their fraud system. But one exception was vultr, recently they clearly stated that the credit card I used mismatched with info I provided. But with OVH and Hetzner its very poor experience, they literally treat like criminals!
there is @HostDZire they offer VPS from $12/y which is oos currently but you can buy their VPS options starting from $24/y too
India: Oracle Free Tier(4Gbps* @ 10TB)
Germany: @berohost for VPS recently after switching from Nutcup. @Hetzner_OL for quick deployment Cloud and if I ever decide for dedi, their auction lineup.
UK: used to be Clouvider but none at the moment.
US: Too broke to afford but connectivity wise @ReliableSiteHosting / @Radic. Especially for LaunchMC contribution.
Fr*nch: OVH
Storage(EU): @labze (undefeated goat)
DDoS protection: @labze's Turin lineup(last tried in March). Easily stopped ATLEAST 200Gbps attack. I'm no longer with them for the VPS but if you ever want DDoS protection, go with them.
Singapore: None for VPS but shared hosting @Francisco. Undefeated chad.
Email(EU): @Francisco cranemail $10/yo plan.
Africa: No node.
Australia: None at the moment.
Yeah I know about HostDZire, from the threads I have seen HostDZire is a solid provider. But I was referring like specs like advinservers has Turin and yet pretty affordable!
Anybody knows who is oldest LET provider who is still active?
A joke by a few people, but serius bisnes for many.
For low end probably.
@Francisco (BuyVM)
@Hetzner_OL has been around forever but not truly low-end (imo).
India is a location that we've always really wanted to open in - but it just isn't feasible at this current point of time.
One of our goals is to bring cheap compute globally, especially in more "exotic" or underserved regions such as Africa, South America, and India.
I saw a DC in Punjab offering 42U for $580 or so and 1U for $25
@cainyxues confirm it
The actual rack and power pricing in India is surprisingly cheap, it is simply the transit that costs a fortune. It is almost impossible to find any transit providers willing to do DDoS-protected transit as well.
With our existing transit & rack requirements, it isn't feasible unless we had serious scale. A T2 like CDN77 would need to open in India if we wanted to open a location there at our existing scale.
ye man, me I am send the link confirmed it 🔥🤝
But yaa seems @advinservers has some valid points 🥹
Interesting thread idea...
So for me:
@tentor (skhron) in Europe (Sweden), never had any issues
@HostDoc (sitehub.agency) in Africa (Nigeria), the only provider I didn't have any issues with in Africa region
@kuroit and @serverpoint in Asia (Singapore) both great and reliable
I'm still looking for someone LowEnd enough in South America
I don't really care about DDoS protection.
For me the most important thing is reliability and helpful support if any issues arise
I agree with you, I too prefer reliability and helpful support more! Actually support is very underrated tbh.... Especially for beginners like me! I constantly mess up things while altering system files in linux. And having a basic DDoS may not mean much in real life but its like placebo for me, gives me a sense of peace!
Back in January 2025, early this year.
I found that your service in Johor Malaysia was totally bad.
I commented, you are the best system with terrible network.
And indeed what I said was true.
I tried the Germany location, your service rocks out.
Not just you, I found the Singapore was full of drama and too many tricks when we talked about Network with other providers.
Even with limited traffic did not help.
Just wish maybe someday there is service in Singapore or zone nearby that really good as in Germany Central zone.
Thanks for the shout LOKE! Really appreciate it
@buggedout Feel free to DM me if there's something specific you're looking for on the East or West coast of US. We'll also have our new Toronto Location online very soon!
APAC has quite limited connectivity in general.
We recently switched network providers which may be better, but it’s a general APAC issue with any provider. As far as I’m aware, it’s mostly due to their reliance on submarine cables, regulations, and (perhaps a lack of) competition.
We’ve invested a lot into our network and we try to use the best network providers we can (even if it comes at a high expense), but even with that, nothing will come close to extremely well-connnected regions like US/EU.
If we could improve it, we would. It’s just how APAC is.
There's certainly drama amongst carriers in APAC
NTT and Lumen have drama. X doesn't want to peer with Y. etc.
In order to compensate for that, we've had to connect to multiple providers and exchanges. In our case, Telstra and PCCW provide a lot of good local connectivity, and being connected to SGIX provides excellent local peering.
And next year adding NTT as well Equinix IX, then we would basically eliminate almost all the routing drama that is common to that part of the world.
But of course, this is costly. In the US, just two large providers is enough to give you the best possible routing possible
EU : @Alyx
ASIA : @HostDZire