New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
What features would you like to see the most on your server provider?
Hello LET!
My name is Matteo Mathieu, I am the owner & developer of Servury, an anonymous / privacy focused VPS/VDS/Proxy provider. While Servury is going strong, I am constantly adding & upgrading features on our platform.
I want to know what kind of features / offerings YOU would appreciate and benefit from. I don't want to build Servury blindly. For example, one of our customers proposed custom billing cycles, and we implemented it - it's now possible to pay for a VPS day-by-day.
Currently, we do not have any "budget" VPS plans, but I am actively working on getting some new servers in colocation to offer cheaper plans. Additionally, we'll be offering dedicated servers and cPanel web hosting for cheap relatively soon.
Comments
okay it's request and offer thread in same time, that trick is good
Uptime. Downtime is so 2025.
Is that bad? I simply want to present Servury to the community and ask what features you guys could benefit from.
no ai slop
Not sure if it's really "like to see" but the most interesting feature I've ever seen on a VPS provider is anycast. If you have a VPS at each of their locations, you can allocate an IP from a separate anycast subnet to reach the closest one.
No, nothing bad at all
That's a cool idea. we have 7 locations right now so the infrastructure could support it down the road. Would you use it primarily for DNS, load balancing, or something else?
I wouldn't use it. I'm just saying it's the most unusual feature I've seen.
I second this.
If I had to add my own suggestion, yes, it’s kind of redundant since you mentioned it, but I would like to see budget VPS plans. My personal ideal is something like $20-$40/yr, with specs lower than the ones on your current cheapest plan, obviously.
Possible caveats can be default closed port 25, older hardware, lower priority on tickets, etc.
FYI your business looks interesting to me. I hope Servury will join the ranks of Incognet, ServersGuru, and many other privacy focused providers.
I'm getting hardware racked in Montreal specifically to make this happen. I'm thinking sub-$7/month for entry level plans. Appreciate the kind words, being mentioned alongside incognet and serversguru means a lot.
What kind of specs would you personally find interesting in the price range you mentioned?
So I don’t want to place unrealistic expectations on providers, especially considering the RAM shortages, but I usually like at least 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB disk (usually SSD but HDD is also fine for my needs), 1 vCPU, and 5 TB/month for bandwidth.
In terms of ideal specs at that price (AKA something I’d almost certainly buy), I prefer 2 GB RAM, 30-40 GB disk, 1-4 vCPUs, and 6-8 TB/month for bandwidth.
I usually get these specs via promos and sales, so if you only sold them during BF, Christmas, or new year’s, for example, that’d be fine.
Totally do-able, even without a promo - I should be more than able to provide that. I'll be posting an offer thread on here and LES when we roll out the starter plans, stay on the lookout.
I think self-service PUSH on the server should be the most advanced feature.
Great to hear. I'll be on the lookout.
Precisely specified bandwidth usage limits, without terms like "fair use". No need to offer an "unmetered" marketing gimmick.
Dedicated servers and BYOIP or BGP sessions.
After you exhaust your "full-speed" data usage (i.e. 1TB @ 1Gbps) you should be able to fall back to unmetered @ 5Mbps or something. Even mobile plans do this.
I like this
Good points. We'll add clearly defined bandwidth limits on every plan. As for dedicated servers, those are on the roadmap.
BYOIP/BGP - I genuinely have no idea why so little providers offer this. Absolutely genius - I'll definitely build that.
I don't see any reason not to offer that, I'll write it down.
Eitther provide a completely unmetered bandwidth use and even that I would prefer if you can show me the exact amount of TB that you specify instead of any asterisks so for example 1 GBPS unmetered usually leads to 330TB/month iirc so if you support this, have in bracket mention 330TB
So like: 1 Gbps unmetered (330Tb/month)
And if you don't then mention what's the number exactly (100Tb, 50 TB etc.)
also, instead of then blocking the traffic reduce it for example. So 100 TB 1 GBPS then 100mbps for example.
It might seem to be bad because people prefer unmetered (including me) but we would prefer the honesty so much more instead of hiding behind fair use and then having us find fair use terms exactly. Atleast that's my opinion
I don't know about 1. I don't use a lot of bandwidth but I also don't want to care about running into some fixed limit. Fair use is for convenience, it's not a trick to use more bandwidth. And if you offer both, it creates perverse incentives. Some providers do fair use at lower speeds and limits for higher speeds.
Since you chose to skip over my post I will reiterate no ai slop.
You site is first touch point you have with a customer.
Agree with these.
Also, the Datacenter Specs page doesn't have much info about the actual DCs, only the country and city they're located in.
Excellent points.
Cloudflare : Cloudflare Turnstile is the only actually battle-tested anti bot measure I could find - Anubis, which is open source, is seemingly useless against actual bot attacks. I had opened a thread on privacy guides a few months back to compile privacy friendly captchas for webmasters - to no avail.
FlagCDN : You're totally right, there is no reason to not store the flags locally, I'll fix that right now.
Stripe : I think you're absolutely right here too, I'll implement some kind of lazy loading to only load stripe assets when Stripe is selected as the payment method in the deploy modal.
Trustpilot : I am planning on making the switch to KYCnot.me as a review platform as soon as we get reviewed on there - I had that 5 star image because we had 20+ reviews but 80% of them got deleted for some reason, including ones from customers which I personally spoke to, I think Trustpilot is known for doing that kind of stuff + they encourage reviewers to provide ID for verification purposes...
Company registration discrepancy : No idea how you're seeing this, I updated the entire site earlier today to mark the move from our Delaware corporation to our Canadian corporation, I doubt that is a cache issue though - I don't see what you're seeing.
API Docs : V2 is already in the works, should be pushed fairly soon, with a total revamp for all endpoints, overall structure and docs page.
Light Theme : Valid, but that is also why dark mode is the default, what kind of maniac uses light mode anyway /sarcasm - I'll look into "WCAG colour contrast ratio's".
I'll get to work right now, I'd appreciate if you can tell me how you're even seeing anything about Delaware anymore, perhaps you started compiling that list of points earlier today.
What attacks were you getting before you implemented Cloudflare?
Had tab open from earlier, confirmd it is update. The trustpilot still has Delaware information in about business your info section.
Accounts being mass created and making spam tickets.
Gotcha, thank you for the heads up. I'll update that today as well - although like I said I was planning on moving to KYCnot.me and deleting the Trustpilot profile entirely.
Do you offer SEV/encrypted ram
This is pretty nice! A good competitor to SporeStack
.
Cloudflare everywhere is definitely not going to win a lot of trust by privacy minded folks.
You'll want this to work over Tor, and ideally have a .onion.
Most of my users pick the smallest servers offered. 1GB is good. 4GB is overkill for so much stuff, and too expensive.
There's nothing about IPv6 there. You can offer a no-IPv4 discount, but I don't think they are very popular.
The website is kind of laggy for me on my old laptop.
Been in business with SporeStack since 2017. Fingers crossed, but no real DDoS in that time. I did put in rate limits for maximum numbers of invoices on brand new tokens and stuff like that. And there's constant script kiddies trying to exploit it like it's some PHP API (Python.)
I think there's all kinds of Cloudflare alternatives, but the first step is addressing your own API, IMO.