We used to do that but in the past when I used to hire staff to do it for me but now I just need 3-4 full-time uploaders with our own cluster of servers, those are unreliable at best, you can notice s

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I own multiple anime streaming sites, I was hosted on privatelayer but the servers are expensive as hell, now I'm sitting on a couple cheap hetzner servers with ddos-guard enterprise as a reverse prox

So many cheap VPNs out there, taking the time to setup hourly billed DO VPS every time and destroying it to get a new IP isn't possible to most people (if they even know how to manage servers).

This was just to see what colo you are being served from. Maybe 2 and an halfish years ago, before Cloudflare finally upgraded their peering with local ISPs, capacity at Istanbul DC and DE-CIX Istanbu

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I'd line that up more with the fact that the reality of the situation is that IPv4 holds more value than the cheapest prices you'll find.

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I mean, practically, doesn't that increase the price of the cheapest VPS I could realistically grab from BuyVM?

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Buyvm Luxemborg 512Mb used to be my go to for cheap and quality VPS. Now their lowest offering starts from 3.5$. Are there any decent alternatives? It sucks that the providers are taking away the lowe

* Your own single reverse proxy on protected network like BuyVM+Path.net or OVH. Pretty cheap ($5) but two problems: slower loading, especially if visitors are from around the world + lower availabili

new IP if it changes. Another idea is to get one cheap server and have it as "hop server" to other ones. It will harden your VPS security too - only you can SSH into server.

What today are "crazy prices" will be dirt cheap in 10 years. Single-letter domain prices are still manageable.

Edit: Can anybody share YABS from Linode? Very curious about their "40Gbps network In" in their cheap VPSes.

Hetzner is somewhat more expensive but even gives you 20 TB if I remember correctly. Honestly, what DO did offer a few years ago, simple, cheap & easy to use VPS servers for 5 bucks, isn't all

Find a cheap network card with the same chipset and replace the Lan chip with the one from your freshly "washed" motherboard.

Also the market overall is getting more expensive. Sustainability is preferred over cheap prices.

for anyone involved except maybe LEB for the cheap clicks.

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