KingRom

From Portland I get 280ms to NBO on a good day. Your 140ms from DXB makes sense, that's direct Gulf routing. The "African" VPS marketing is selling aspiration, not fiber.

I'm on a $5 RackNerd box in LAX. For my use case it's fine. Wouldn't pretend it serves...

Hostinger still sells that $2/mo plan?

Portland checking in. I tried the dual-stack redundant thing with Linode and DigitalOcean but gave up because the failover scripting was more fragile than the services. Now I just use Route 53 health checks and accept that AWS owns my soul. It works. I sleep.

What about ZeroSSL? Also free 90 day but with dashboard and email reminder. No acme needed if you dont want.

Portland here, Pacific Power around $0.12/kWh. Not terrible but I finally bothered to enable proper C-states in BIOS on my Threadripper box. Was idling at 140W, now 75W. That's $7/month for ten minutes in firmware settings.

Why did I leave it on "performance" for two years. Why.