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Looking for a fun little project host under 20 bucks a year for a personal vpn and maybe a tiny matrix bot. I know I know everyone says this is scam territory but ive had luck before with NAT vps deals. It actually works if you dont need public ipv4. Anyone got a lead on something current or should I just run this on my home connection behind cgnat 🔧
Threat model this carefully. assume compromise on any provider at this price point. Blast radius includes your vpn credentials and any lateral movement to your home network. Attack surface of a twenty dollar vps is identical to a two hundred dollar one for automated scanning. Zero trust means verify the provider has published abuse contacts and asnbelonging to established infrastructure. I would not threat model this as production worthy.
Practical recommendation: increase budget to $40/year for reliable 1GB KVM with dedicated IPv4. The market has shifted; true bargains below $20 are now exit scams or mining fronts. Verified option: cloudcone.com offers $36/year with actual support tickets.
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So heres the thing about these requests and I see them constantly (probably too constantly if im being honest with myself which I rarely am) is that everyone piles in with the same warnings and the same dont do it and the same spend more money as if money grows on trees (it doesnt, ive checked, my neighbor has an oak and nothing but acorns which are technically edible but thats another story) but what actually happens and ive seen this maybe three times in ten years is someone lurks and dms a referral to some romanian provider running off a single dedi in bucharest that somehow stays up for eighteen months and costs fourteen euros a year and the thread never hears about it because the dm recipient doesnt want to blow up the guys inbox or get the deal oversold (which happens, overselling kills these things dead, ive watched it happen, its like a gold rush with none of the gold and all of
Someone lurks and dms a re
Cloudcone.com is a made up url right
Which kernel are you running on that e5 v2
