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What is the use case, I have a number of old mini pc's in my home rack I can spin up as a mini VPS on my business connection
Oh, it's this time again...
@OP you should seriously consider the offer since this is probably as good as it gets.
Wondering what the use case for this is?
In UK some ISPs will serve you additional IPs and they will appear as "residental" and then you reroute them. Other than that you are going to be relying proxy services that likely give IPs with poor reputation.
I have a business line that runs on the openreach network, they allow me up to 64 IPv4 which I may setup as mini PC or raspberry pi options with a very strict no abuse policy for a small cost a month because these types of services seem to be in high demand.
Usually it's some kind of VPN exit that appears, well..., residential to use some kind of service that discriminates against datacenter IPs in one way or the other.
Yeah, all those shared proxy services (be it on valid residential/business lines, user of some app that didn't notice the trap in the fine print or simply root enduser PCs) don't really have much real life use outside of maybe tricking the occasional signup form or scraping from a rotating set of IPs due to them very quickly racking up horrible reputations, likely being quite overloaded or in the later cases just extremely unstable.
That's what all those people asking for the golden goose of residential VPSs probably already found out the hard way. Like @xHost's offer those kinds of setups are possible. It's just nothing that will be a dime a dozen like the usual lowend VPS and can be expected to come with quite a bit of scrutiny since residential ISPs won't like having a ton of abuse mails coming in and the handful of hosts capable/willing to offer it won't like risking their infrastructure/business relationships over a couple dollars.
I guess at least in theory it could be possible to offer a service where a host actually gets a whole new customer line in the name of the client, so it technically won't be them who's responsible for the abuse but i figure that's legally complicated and the client would have to shoulder full installation/monthly cost + premium. Also once enough of those lines have been terminated for abuse chances are the ISP supplying them will likely still stop doing so. They all go the exact same place after all.
Yes, I am aware of such networks.
My point is that, I assume, those of you requesting UK residential VPS are likely based outside the country, as it would generally be easier to request additional IP addresses from your ISP or overlay network and setting up a low-powered machine, rather obtain a residential VPS.
There is an opportunity, for someone to utilise the additional addresses available to establish a service.
But isn’t there a greater inherent risk in hosting at home for the same reasons that running a TOR exit node is not recommended? If you are hosting as a company and someone makes inappropriate use of your IP addresses from a data centre, it is generally easier to explain than if it occurs with an IP address associated with a residential address. Since you live, sleep, and have family at home, it is likely to be more disruptive if issues arise.
Hmm, i'm largely (most previous requests i've seen also point in this direction but then anecdotal evidence and so on) crystal balling this but i think most people requesting those types of services have no connection to the countries they want to appear residential to.
Reasons will likely vary but seemingly social media algorithms would discriminate based on location/residential status, many web sites will have more of a tolerance to being blasted when they think the other side is an enduser in country X, geo blocking often times tries to wall off datacenter IPs and of course there's always the North Koreans trying to pose as anything but North Korean on various job platforms. It could obviously also just be someone looking for a non-suspicious IP to commit fraud and/or whatever other shady/illegal activity from. There's just a lot of options.
Well, that's pretty much what @xHosts is offering to do here. Albeit on a business line but depending on how the ISP is setup that might end up to be pretty much the same for all practical purposes. It's not something a private person should be doing though. A ) because it's safe to say that the ISPs TOS would disallow such usage and B ) because there's a massive risk attached with letting random persons use your connection (might easily get the aspiring hobby hoster raided, in court, in jail and/or out of big chunks of money in dealing with said events).
If some host were to setup residential lines in the names of out of country clients those sure wouldn't terminate at any actual home. That's not the point of the whole thing after all.
Most likely OP can't use this since its business account from a hoster and also most likely reselling residential broadband violates the terms of agreement with the broadband provider.