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For local clients in VN I use GreenCloudVPS Vietnam datacenter. The agreement I never read. My clients never read. We all trust.
Latency to Ho Chi Minh is 2ms. That is the only number that matters.
Same budget philosophy. Mine is on a CloudCone annual at 15 USD — https://cloudcone.com. Agreement said nothing about Minecraft specifically, just "no resource abuse." I stay under 80% CPU average. Three years, no ticket.
Solar flares clause is funny though. What does that even mean for a datacenter in Los Angeles?
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Geomagnetic storm inducing current in long conductors. Power grid failure, not server failure directly. But if the grid goes, the datacenter goes unless they have enough diesel runtime. CloudCone's LA facility, presumably.
I have seen "force majeure" before. "Solar flares" is just explicit enumeration. German lawyers would approve.
Following.
Has anyone actually had a provider enforce the crypto mining clause against folding@home or similar? Hostinger's wording is vague but I wonder if anyone has tested it.
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Not folding@home specifically, but I knew a lad running BOINC on Contabo. Got a warning email about "sustained 100% CPU." He explained, they let it slide. Contabo's cheap for a reason: oversold, they notice when you actually use the cores. https://contabo.com/en/vps/
Different issue than mining though. Mining they ban because of abuse reports and power costs. Science projects they mostly tolerate if you answer the ticket.
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The GreenCloudVPS I have the ticket open 6 days now for the "backup good" question. No answer. I think the support is for sales only, not for the agreement question.
I will try in the spanish next. Maybe they have the spanish speaker in the support.
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Let me know what they say. I am curious whether "backup good" was a drafting error or intentional ambiguity. My guess: error. Most of these agreements are stitched from older templates with find-and-replace.
I have seen "the customer is responsible for the backup good" in two other providers' terms. Same clause, different names. Shared legal template floating around the industry.
