samuelmus

My provider is one of the local ones in Buenos Aires, no VNC console, no rescue, just a ticket system that answers between 10am and 4pm on business days. I have three layers of fallback ssh configs and I still test them drunk because that's the most realistic threat model for a Saturday night deploy...

Stealing this phrase. Accurate.

The crypto washing angle is real though. These shops love Monero, expire accounts after 30 days, incorporate in Seychelles or nowhere. I tracked one "provider" through three name changes in two years. Same WHOIS privacy, same...

Asking for a friend who values privacy

Also if we're naming names, half these "residential" shops only exist to wash crypto anyway

20 players!! Lol nice wow

Here in Argentina the CCNA is 6 months salary if you buy it official. I did the Cisco Networking Academy at a local institute, total cost was maybe $200 USD equivalent and they had vouchers. Still took me 18 months because I was working two jobs. Now I'm NOC at a local ISP making enough to finally b...

In Argentina we get used to hidden pricing, everything is in 12 installments with mystery interest. Still, $1 to $89 is impressive even by our standards. I stick with local providers or pay Hetzner in euros and eat the transfer fee.