Just wanted to add fiber broadband is cheap af in India (at least in South India).

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I recently bought a used SuperMicro from eBay along with a cheap Epyc CPU. Has like 6 PCIe slots and a couple M.2's.

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Everywhere I look it seems bandwidth is dirt cheap with European providers yet if you look at Australia, Asia, it's insanely expensive by comparison. Any reason for that?

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Re "gcore": got that tip already a few times. Unfortunately though they seem to be a Luxembourg company (and not russian), plus they aren't particularly cheap.

a month ... Could I, an avid hunter of dirt cheap VPS, resist that temptation? Kind of. I "resisted" by taking the next higher model for ca. $1.60/month g which offers also 1 vCore

Now, on to the next provider which is quite well known and seems to have a decent reputation, VDSina. Note that this (tested) server is not at all cheap (ca.€11.30/mo) but it's not meant to be. I chos

Other than the LET typical request for cheap (but halfway decent) VPS there seems to be some interest in VPS with higher bandwith than the usual 100 or 200 Mb/s. Et voila, here you go ... albeit with

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And btw, all of us are a part of the problem too, because "the market", i.e. we want cheap products and that, sorry, also means that providers don't use experienced software engineer

Regarding annual only payments, that happens because we faced recently abuses on cheap services and we wanna have some guarantee about that we don't lose money and time with someone who break our ToS.

Following @imok I also strongly recommend @Ian_Dot_Tech. Like @imok, I do colo a server with Ian and Amit. They have a lot of experience with colocation, with game servers, and with all the issues sur