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Thanks for organizing this giveaway! I’d love to use this VPS to host some small personal projects and lightweight services, such as a private monitoring dashboard, a few self-hosted tools, and some automation scripts. The Hong Kong location and connectivity near HKIX also make it an interesting option for testing network performance and latency.
Wow, a nice Hong Kong VPS might be useful for setting up a proxy.
Would love to join! I'm in Chengdu and plan to use it as a small HK relay plus a personal blog and some monitoring scripts. Quick question about AS4658: does traffic to mainland China go through HKIX peers, or mainly through your regular transit? Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway! I'd use this VPS for uptime monitoring, small self-hosted apps, and testing network connectivity from Hong Kong to Indonesia. How's the routing to Indonesian ISPs?
Hello Netfront team!
Thank you for offering this amazing lifetime VPS deal to the LET community!
I'm interested in learning more about AS4658 and its network connectivity. How is the network routing from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, and what kind of latency can users typically expect?
If I'm lucky enough to win, I plan to use the VPS for lightweight web hosting, API testing, and personal networking projects. The 300 Mbps connection and 1 TB monthly traffic allowance would be perfect for my needs.
Good luck to everyone participating, and thanks for supporting the LET community!
I'd use $1 VPS for a website.
I'd use it to host a few small websites and test some web projects. The HK location is a nice bonus. Thanks for the offer!
Need a new uptime monitor as I keep resetting my current VPS (and don't have any backups) so would love to have a good server closer to me (Aussie so all the US servers generally feel rather laggy)
Count me in, thanks for the giveaway @netfront! I'd use it as a small Hong Kong node for my personal subscription-conversion service and as a lightweight uptime monitoring probe.
I have a blog. Please count me in!
Port/latency check, uptime monitor sure. I'll end up having a HK server so this will be a good addition
I would like to participate
How much does the renewal cost?
Hi, Netfront team!
As a coffee enthusiast, I'd love to use this VPS to host my pet project — a small Telegram bot for tracking my coffee brewing experiments (beans, water composition, grind settings, brew ratios, and tasting notes). Thanks for the giveaway, and count me in!
Sweet deal! It would be great to use it for monitoring, a personal Tailscale peer relay, and a Globalping probe.
May be for Wireguard
Monitoring, and VPN if permited
I think I'll use your VPS for a personal site or web apps.
I plan to use it to host stopidle.com
Other than the around 400 peers directly connected via HKIX (which includes google, azure, cloudflare, etc), we currently reach the rest of the world through transit providers AS6939, AS24077, and AS9304.
We have no plan to add more IX in Asia for now. But we are planning to add presence in UK.
Asia needs some love too
It was improper route configuration that resulted in the "leaked" route: we had one of our transit providers through which we connect direct to China, such that that provider announced all china routes to us. But because of the improper routing configuration, some of our routers decided that reaching to that peer direct via HKIX, instead of via the regular direct link through a specific router, was the best route. We have since filtered the incorrect routes.
No, we do not agree. HK is still the best!
It is additional VPN service that provides separate VPN connections, that you can use those VPN connections from your mobile devices and computers, as well as direct from your VPS.
For this particular giveaway, the renewal cost will continue to be usd1/year.
There is currently no blocked ports. But FUP will apply if service is abused, as with any other cloud provider.
IPv6 is provided. We route to China via our regular transit providers. Thanks!
Our network mainly peers with the 400 peers via HKIX, and we send traffic to the rest of the world via HE plus a handful others. Yes, network is the same as any regular plan we offer on our cloud store.
Transit into China mainly via our regular transit providers. You may try to test via https://lookingglass.netfront.net/ and with the iperf3 there, for the actual speed you may get.