The budget doesn't help very much, at some point you will hit the fair usage policy and with vps services you will be a bad neighbour.

mostly ubuntu on vps

I've tested several VPS providers in the area. My current best result is around 27-35ms TTFB and 80+ from DO.

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Please restart your VPS from VPS Panel.

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On some VPS nodes, the CPU may appear as “AMD EPYC” inside the VM due to virtualization/host configuration, even though the underlying hardware is Ryzen 9950X.

Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles & Amsterdam are the regions we are looking for,

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Read this https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/216433/vps-provider-recommendations-for-personal-vpn-tunnel-with-non-standard-egress/p1

1. Can I host a VPN for personal use only on my vps?

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Realistically, you're going to be looking at either a VPS solution from the providers on bgp.cheap and bgp.services with a network engineer to manage it for you, or a DDoS mitigation provider that wil