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That's more than the next 5 networks combined. Linode has 12.

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Only 223 IP addresses from Linode did that on the same day.

That can also happen to GCP, AWS, Azure, even DO/Linode/Vultr. Eventhough your card can be charged, usually debit cards are flagged for additional verification. They will usually ask for card pictures

And what about Linode? Also a large and similar provider. Does it have the same "issues" like digitalocean in terms of abuse?

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Thanks a lot all for the advices and suggestions. At this point and for now, I guess will use a Cloud VPS from a relliable host, like Linode (their Germany datacenter) a small 5€/month plan. Also hear

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As promised here's the next and for the time being final round, with 4 new contenders including gcorelabs which was kind of heavily promoted by a few users, but alas turned out to be rather mediocre …

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You can list any provider like linode, DO...

Ok. And can I include other providers like Linode? Or only providers listed here are eligible?

* Linode

I remember the network was pretty good before, whats the difference now with DO Linode?

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This is a new second part of my older "Russian VPS" thread. Next to my own personal interest it was inspired both by constructive criticism/suggestions by some users (@raynor, to na…