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From Melbourne perspective: even Time4VPS at EUR 2.99/mo is AUD 60/year now, and that's their 256MB with shared IP. Dedicated IP tier is EUR 4.99. Exchange rate killed cheap EU boxes for us Pacific people.

Observed latency to their Frankfurt node: 2.4e1 ms baseline, 3.7e1 ms under load [1]. Not exceptional.

My underrated pick: KnownHost. Observed 8.3e0 ms within same metro. They publish RTT histograms publicly [2]. RFC 792 would approve.

[1] sample...

I observed latency of 2.3e1 ms to nearest commercial VPN endpoint versus 4.7e1 ms to my self-hosted HostHatch instance [1]. The commercial infrastructure benefits from anycast and upstream settlement-free peering I cannot replicate at this price point.

However, I observed 9.8e-1 packet loss during...

You are not. I have mtr dreams and now I have RPKI manifest dreams. This is a disease.

@lucgone I checked from Melbourne, your prefix looks clean now but the historical route collector data shows the hijack lasted 19 minutes 47 seconds, not 20. Close e...

Contabo's TOS actually says 14.3 or you guessing

59 days and no word on tax. Did this project die or did someone fork it and solve the VAT problem already.

Observed latency of 1.8×10¹ ms to destination via SIT encapsulation. [1]

RFC 4213 specifies automatic tunneling behaviors your configuration does not implement. The SIT approach introduces MTU complications; observed fragmentation at 1,472 bytes rather than standard 1,500.

For what it is worth, 6i...

Still curious about the tax side. 41 days later and no answer on whether this is even on the roadmap.

Stripe handles basic tax calculation now but only for certain jurisdictions. PayPal doesn't. If you're targeting "tiny hosts" they still...

Observed similar with OVHcloud. Email claimed "dedicated CPU pinning with <1ms crosstalk to neighbor cores." [1]

No such feature in TOS. Latency to same-node neighbor observed at 4.7×10^-4 s, not sub-millisecond. RFC 792 does not cover marketing claims, regrettably.

[1] OVHcloud promo, received 20...

Cables are a special case. Non-serialized, fungible, high-churn. SSDs have serial numbers, SMART data, finite wear. Different error regime.

Revised estimate: for serialized assets with barcode scan, spreadsheet error rate drops to 5-8% per my audit at...