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Is VeryCloud (2c8g64g for €45.80/y) a good choice for France?
They're located in Telehouse 3 and have their own AS, AS198825, with AS62000 (SERVERD) as their upstream which seems very well-connected. Their specs are good for a surprisingly low annual cost: 2 vCPUs (E5-2680 v4), 8 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD, and 100 Mbps dual stack connectivity for €45.80/year.
Their TrustPilot reviews are also very good. Based on all this, I'd definitely buy a VPS from them for a Tor relay, but France is not an obscure location by any means, so I wonder if there is anything better, or if this looks pretty solid. Are there any issues with VeryCloud that anyone is aware of?
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@forest, excluding the RAM, it looks like very average offer for 100mbps unlimited in FR. What are you going to do with the extra ram?
I'll run a Hyphanet (Freenet) node, which uses Java and runs much better when there's plenty of RAM. It's a censorship-resistant distributed data store and more memory allows it to do database lookups with fewer I/O requests.
Oh, then it could work
Theres like a bunch of no name FR hosting providers that all use that upstream.
I just have one question. What do you guys do with unlimited bandwidth?
8g of ram for less than 4$/mo is always a good deal.
I run Tor relays. But I don't brag about it in public like @forest
Tor relays, I2P routers, and Hyphanet nodes. Considering adding Yggdrasil nodes to the mix. In France, Tor alone can easily saturate a 100 Mbit port. Hyphanet will often use <20 Mbps and I2P can use anywhere from 1 to 50 Mbps, in my experience.
It's not about bragging, it's about spreading the word. I've had people message me and say that I inspired them to run a relay, and that always makes me feel great. It's easiest to be an advocate if you shout about it from the rooftops.