WalnutDude3

Chicago. The real story here is IPv4 exhaustion making this conversation necessary at all. My employer pays $45/month per IPv4 on AWS now. €4 with shared IP starts looking sane when you frame it that way.

From Chicago, my latency to everywhere:

• Contabo NYC: 18ms
• Vultr AMS: 95ms
• Hetzner HEL: 105ms
• RackNerd AMS: 92ms

US-East is obvious for me personally, but I have users in Poland and Germany who complain. I added a $5 Vultr AMS as a read replica for database queries. Write...

Chicago here. We don't have VAT but Illinois has a 6.25% use tax on remote computing services that nobody collects until they audit you. Found this out the hard way.

Same issue with a different provider, also following for resolution.

I had the same thing with a fake invoice last month

This. So much this. I got a real Vultr abuse notice last month and almost deleted it because the formatting was worse than the fake Carlos got. Plain text, broken wrapping, no logo.

If these companies sp...

Following this thread closely. Chicago anycast to ORD is usually solid but I have seen backhaul to DEN on one provider during peak. Never got a straight answer why.

Minh1987 what monitoring are you using to catch the 12ms spread? SmokePing? I need something better than my current setup.

I'm at 6. 4 from my own space, 2 from a customer who absolutely insisted on bringing their own /24 when they colocated. Fine, whatever, it's their money.