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In Poland we have Domena.pl and AZ.pl that do secondary DNS for free if you register with them. No need for second VPS. I never understood why people make it complicated.

In Poland we see this with hosting resellers. Upstream "contacts" customer directly to sell mitigation or "premium abuse handling." Sometimes the upstream is real but the contact is a sales guy breaking protocol. Check if the domain registrant matches any known protection racket.

In Poland we have a saying: "Drogo znaczy tanio" - expensive means cheap. The 10 USD/year box teaches you what you need, then you pay properly for it. I did same path: Hostinger -> Hetzner VPS -> Hetzner dedicated. Now I pay 40 EUR/month and sleep well.

@lee_mcr do you plan to migrate or stay on th...

In Poland hosting companies like OVHcloud or smaller ones from Wrocław usually write "Linux cert preferred" and they mean LPIC. RHCSA is rare request. I have LPIC-2 and it was enough for every job I applied.

But I work now in company with many Hetzner dedicated servers. They did not ask for cert at...

.pl is good for Poland market but for international project .com still king. I have 11 .com for clients, they all want .com, no discussion. Price increase will pass to clients eventually.

I had a 128MB GreenCloudVPS in Singapore for shadowsocks. Worked until 2022 when their kernel moved to 5.15 and the wireguard module alone ate 12MB more. Couldn't downgrade. Migrated to HostHatch Tokyo, same price, still alive.

The kernel growth is the silent killer, not userland.

Did anyone get the partial rollback Pieter mentioned, or are we all still routing through London

I am on Leaseweb now but this thread made me check my old OVHcloud box, still 370ms to Singapore from Gravelines

Seems like the cost saving won