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How to get Leaseweb VPS in SF/LA and Tokyo?
JustLookingAround
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I've been wanting to get Leaseweb VPS servers in SF/LA and Tokyo for a few weeks now, but have been told by their support that it'll take quite a while before those are available. Is it because resellers pickup the available VPS servers as soon as they become available? If so, is there any reseller who has these available. I need one in each location.
PS. Main reason I'm going for leaseweb is the 10Gbps (shared)port, 30TB traffic and relatively cheap pricing.
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no. They just not available rn, even to reseller
On a side-note, read that HostDZire was hacked. If I get a leaseweb server through a reseller, and they get hacked, would my VPS server be safe? I'm assuming max that will happen is hacker will get access to my billing account etc stored on reseller's infrastructure?
No. Their own servers got hacked. Most of them Indian locations and few they have colo with leaseweb.
The VPS they resell from Leaseweb didn't hacked.
It is a more complex question. Safe from what and to what extent? Hosting anything on the VPS is inherently unsafe, the question is what degree is risk you are willing to take in relation to your data.
How is it unsafe? Can other VPS clients on same machine, somehow access/hack into my VM? or you meant its easily accessible by VPS provider?
You trust your data to a company/individual and god knows what happens with it. This is in short. Plus, thanks to AI, various vulnerabilities are being discovered daily these days.
Isn't the same true for a Dedicated server? At the end of the day your data is in the hands of someone else.
Same
most of the time they use third party providers like stripe. and they don't store your card on their own end, cause it costs them in a lot of ways
I won't name the host but a few years ago, I switched my dedi to a higher spec one. They were supposed to leave old one online for a few days, so I could copy data to the new server. But they accidentally decommissioned my server. Couple of days later, when I realized, I opened up a ticket and they still had my data on the old server. Which kinda gave me the creeps, as they could have just done a quick format and assigned server to someone else or just accessed it themselves. So your data isn't really safe unless you own your own hardware. Unfortunately, TPM isn't offered on dedicated servers afaik - that would be a really good option.