Searching for Additional Providers
Guidelines for Selecting Providers
Check the Acceptable Use Policy:
Does it censor political or religious speech? Pay very careful attention to its terms of service.
In many countries, censorship is required by law. In such a case, sysadmins are required to follow the law. But, check if the provider requires a legal court order before it censors.
What is their abuse policy? Do they notify us first to give us time to respond, before shutting off our services?
Does the provider allow: IRC, email, DNS servers, game servers, legal filesharing, VPNs?
Other Important Criteria:
Does the provider allow alternative operating systems?
Does it offer DDoS filtering? IPv6? rDNS delegation? What size of an IPv6 subnet will you get?
Do they offer VPSes, colocation, or dedicated servers?
Where are the data centers located?
How long has this provider been operating?
Do they have a good reputation? Is there a strong user community?
How do they provide customer support? Test their customer support before purchasing. Support may be slow or terrible.
What payment options do they accept? It's better to have at least two options to choose from.
Send an email to customer support and ask them a few of these questions. If the customer support is friendly and helpful, you can continue researching. If they ignore your questions or are unhelpful, you should find another provider. If they aren't helpful before the purchase, you can be certain they will be unhelpful afterwards when they already have our money.
We especially need providers in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore), Australia, Africa, and South America.
Currently Using
[[https://buyvm.net]] -- Las Vegas, New York City, Luxembourg
[[https://aliendata.com]] -- Texas
Recommended
USA
EndOffice -- Supports free speech, (DDoS filtering?.md)
Colocation America -- includes DDoS filtering
[[https://leaseweb.us]] -- fast reply, allows anything legal
Europe
OpenBSD.Amsterdam -- allows anything legal
Hong Kong
[[https://simcentric.com]] -- fast customer support, 3 day trial
[[https://hosthongkong.net]] -- allows anything legal
[[https://serverrun.com]] -- replied no colo
[[https://sunnyvision.com]] -- allows anything legal
[[https://serverhk.org]] -- allows anything legal
[[https://hkcolocation.net]] -- allows anything legal
Untested
USA
BudgetVM
SharkTech -- unresponsive tech support, did not respond to abuse reports, offers DDoS filtering
[[blazingfast.io]]
[[colohouse.com]] -- replied
[[glowhost.com]]
[[http://ddoshostingsolutions.com/]]
[[https://www.hostclean.net/]]
[[https://www.datapacket.com]] -- very expensive
[[https://www.quadranet.com/]]
[[https://spartanhost.org/dedicated]] -- uses psychz
[[https://www.prometeus.net/]]
Europe
Orange Website -- Supports privacy, (free speech?), (DDoS filtering?.md)
SharkTech -- unresponsive tech support, did not respond to abuse reports, offers DDoS filtering
[[contabo]]
[[flokinet]]
Hong Kong
Host Dime -- unreasonable price, allows anything legal
Indonesia
hostdata.id
Potential
LowEndBox
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DDos Filtering Providers:
x4b
Don't use
OVH -- censors hate speech, [perhaps prohibits IRC?
OVH -- censors hate speech, [perhaps prohibits IRC?
Amazon AWS -- AUP censors offensive content without really defining what offensive is
Google Cloud -- censors hate speech
Digital Ocean -- censors hate speech
Linode -- censors hate speech
Microsoft Azure -- censors hate [speech
Microsoft Azure -- censors hate [speech
HostSailor -- censors hate speech
Anynode -- no ddos filtering, unresponsive customer support, lacking IPv6 rDNS API
[[ideastack.com]]
HyperFilter -- forbids IRC
Psychz -- DDoS filtering, censors [hate speech
Psychz -- DDoS filtering, censors [hate speech
Choopa -- includes DDoS filtering, censors [hate speech
Choopa -- includes DDoS filtering, censors [hate speech
hetzner
PRQ.se -- Supports free speech, (DDoS filtering?.md); but no IRC and slow customer support
India
Yourlasthost -- AUP bans IRC
Arise Server -- doesn't know what IRC sys
bigrock -- doesn't know what OpenBSD is
b4u india -- doesn't allow chat servers
Royal Clouds -- doesn't respond to customer questions
[[go4hosting.in]]
[[leapswitch.com]]
[[crazyhosting.com]]
[[onliveserver.com]]
[[rdsindia.com]]
[[cyfuture.com]]
[[serverbasket.com]]
[[hostingraja.in]]
[[resellerclub.com]]
[[everdata.com]]
[[vps.net.in]]
[[ricohidc.com]]
[[milesweb.com]]
[[nowindiaonline.in]]
[[cloudoye.com]]
[[miditech.co.in]]
[[softsyshosting.com]]
[[nowindiaonline.in]]
[[cloudoye.com]]
[[webji.in]]
[[hostkarle.com]]
[[serverscart.com]]
[[vnetindia.com]]
[[superbytehosting.com]]
[[sytes.in]]
[[royalclouds.net]]
[[nowindiaonline.in]]
Pakistan
[[host24.com.pk]]
Hong Kong
quotecolo.com -- replied but didn't answer questions
hkcolo.com -- replied but didn't answer questions
Indonesia