Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe
Greetings, I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable VPS Provider(s) who can provide 1. Centos 6 2. IPv4 and IPv6 (preferably) physically in the regions of African Continent, Eastern Europe/Russia, Middle East, South America and Canada. I've already deployed some globally with Vultr and Amazon (Brazil region). Basically doing a low volume test point probe (512MB-1GB RAM, < 20GB disk) for latency measurements. Would prefer to have a secure (logically and financially) and reliable host. Thanks in advance, EKG
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. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com> wrote:
Greetings,
I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable VPS Provider(s) who can provide
1. Centos 6 2. IPv4 and IPv6 (preferably)
physically in the regions of African Continent, Eastern Europe/Russia, Middle East, South America and Canada.
I've already deployed some globally with Vultr and Amazon (Brazil region).
Basically doing a low volume test point probe (512MB-1GB RAM, < 20GB disk) for latency measurements. Would prefer to have a secure (logically and financially) and reliable host.
Thanks in advance,
EKG
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.
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:41:55 AM Jim Popovitch wrote:
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....).
For eastern and southern Africa, there are reasonable peering locations that could help fix these problems. But the issue is not that a handful of providers prefer to route everything through London, but that the majority of service providers and mobile networks in Africa prefer to buy capacity into Europe, than from local service providers selling IP in Africa. The reasons for this are legacy. While those reasons are falling away and we are seeing more and more uptake for service in-continent, it's not coming fast enough. Mark.
Hi, did you have a look at https://atlas.ripe.net/ ? They have two types of probes that are already in place. Best regards Karsten 2014-10-29 21:05 GMT+01:00 Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>:
Greetings,
I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable VPS Provider(s) who can provide
1. Centos 6 2. IPv4 and IPv6 (preferably)
physically in the regions of African Continent, Eastern Europe/Russia, Middle East, South America and Canada.
I've already deployed some globally with Vultr and Amazon (Brazil region).
Basically doing a low volume test point probe (512MB-1GB RAM, < 20GB disk) for latency measurements. Would prefer to have a secure (logically and financially) and reliable host.
Thanks in advance,
EKG
I've used several off this list https://www.exoticvps.com/ On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Karsten Elfenbein < karsten.elfenbein@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
did you have a look at https://atlas.ripe.net/ ? They have two types of probes that are already in place.
Best regards Karsten
2014-10-29 21:05 GMT+01:00 Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>:
Greetings,
I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable VPS Provider(s) who can provide
1. Centos 6 2. IPv4 and IPv6 (preferably)
physically in the regions of African Continent, Eastern Europe/Russia, Middle East, South America and Canada.
I've already deployed some globally with Vultr and Amazon (Brazil region).
Basically doing a low volume test point probe (512MB-1GB RAM, < 20GB disk) for latency measurements. Would prefer to have a secure (logically and financially) and reliable host.
Thanks in advance,
EKG
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