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Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:41:55 -0400
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com> wrote:
Ramnode is like $24 a year. They have a Netherlands cluster. I'm running CentOS6 and get both IPv4 and v6. They use OpenVZ for the really cheap stuff so depending on what you're doing you may run into issues.
+1 for RamNode (AS3842). I have several VPS'es from them, very very stable, awesome Support. Other nods go to OneAsiaHost (AS24482) in Singapore, and RansomIT (AS45177) down under. All three of those providers fundamentally understand BGP/peering. As for Africa... I use the RamNode Netherlands to provide coverage to Africa. I spent the past year and half trolling the African VPS marketplace, and while there are excellent providers, the peering SUCKS. I'm not going to get into why the peering sucks... let's just say that one or two strategic providers seem to like for everything to route through London. Anyhoo... In South Africa you can get solid VPS'es from domains.co.za, and vps.co.za. Their network peerings will also allow you to adequately cover 75% of Nambia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Mozambique. On the Eastern side of the continent there is kilihost.com (formerly aptus.co.tz), however they are still working with TIX and KIXP (and have been for years) to establish better regional peering (the whole of East Africa seems to route 95% of traffic through London... someone on this list provides that transit.... hopefully at cost....). Western Africa is best reached/served from London/Netherlands... however there are a few Nigerian VPS hosts but the infrastructure is not on par with the South African or London datacenters. No VPSes in Riyadh, Dubai, or Mumbai, seemed to have any capabilities of providing better connectivity to East Africa. Why do I know all this, well ~2 years ago there was a thread here about how geoip DNS sucks (or such) and I set out to build a hobby geoip CDN to see just how much it sucked. My takeaway is that the tech is there, the politics (peering) isn't.... and that is most prevalent in the whole of Africa (and pretty much unique to Africa). -Jim P.
Current thread:
- Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Eric Germann (Oct 29)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Josh Luthman (Oct 29)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Jim Popovitch (Oct 29)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Mark Tinka (Oct 29)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Jim Popovitch (Oct 29)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Karsten Elfenbein (Oct 30)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Justin (Oct 30)
- Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe Josh Luthman (Oct 29)