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I'd pulled the list of peers that my Hive node was connected to in the past and here is where they were hosted at:

Hetzner Online GmbH 71
OVH SAS 14
Privex Inc. 13
Contabo GmbH 7
SK Broadband Co Ltd 4
CLOUDFLARENET 2
AMAZON-02 2
Linode, LLC 2
Online S.a.s. 2
CONTABO 1
ULTRADDOS 1
xneelo 1
Proximus NV 1
CLOUDSINGULARITY 1
V tal 1
TIER-NET 1
DIGITALOCEAN-ASN 1
Cityfibre Limited 1
HURRICANE 1

And 14 out of the top 20 Hive-Engine witnesses are hosted at hetzner as well. Definitely need to diversify it a bit.

Wow, that is wild, but they are good with dedicated Hardware for sure. My first priority was to get a system and not only a cloud performance and then storage size. Costs for the same system can range from 100$-500$ Dollars a month.

Yea, Hetzner is cheap(other than adding disk space, that gets real expensive at hetzner) and has performant machines.

Having tons of problems running the Software on Hetzner so far, should really turn my back on it.

Hmm, shouldn't have any issues there, since they provide basic linux boxes without any changes. What's the exact issues?

You have no idea,... the IPFS is constantly causing auto locks and complaints. Netscan Tech, Traffic Violation (for a file store??), Firewall settings, fuck me

Ah, that is actually accurate. IPFS attempts to connect to everything in RFC1918 address space(10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16) and that actually gets caught as a netscan by Hetzner. You'll need to run IPFS in server mode. @vaultec can you make that change to the docker stuff to start running in server mode?

Try running this,

alias ipfs-docker="docker exec -it cluster-rewarding-ipfs /usr/local/bin/ipfs"
ipfs-docker config profile apply server

(Blatantly stolen from @techcoderx)

If you use discord, come say hi: https://discord.gg/JbhQ7dREsP

So much about the tech is already borderline illegal, just waiting for the hammer

Shoot me some working alternatives, please!

This sheet might be useful. I was using it for looking for hosts for Hive-Engine nodes, but works the same for here, right? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XikDdOFZBpeCy88HkYFre74Boe_odcivn7h0-92_ZSw/edit?usp=sharing

Here's most of it. Of course the specs/price doesn't apply evenly, but if you have suggestions for hosts, lmk and I'll add them in.

HostNameTypeCPURamDiskCostPersonal Thoughts
ExampleExampleDedicated/VirtualExampleX GBX GB TYPEMonthly(1Time)What I think
RyamerRyamer 1Dedicated16C/32T Ryzen 5950x128 GB2 TB NVME175(150)Biased, my company
Privexv4-nl-nvmeVirtual8 vCPU Ryzen4 GB50 G NVME30Biased, my employer
Misakas2n-4c6gVirtual4vCPU6 GB96 G NVME30Used Them, Like Them
Digital OceanPremium AMDVirtual4 AMD vCPU8 GB160 G NVME56Expesnive, but good
AWSLightsail $80Virtual4 vCPU16 GB320 GB80Expesnive with a capital E
Vultr75 G NVMEVirtual4 vCPU8 GB75 GB NVME80Expensive, especially on netowrk
BuyVM3 Core SliceVirtual3 Cores @ 3.50+ GHz12 GB240 GB SSD45Deathwing Is A Fan Of them, their CPUs are really nice
ReliableSiteAMD Ryzen 3700XDeficated8C/16T Ryzen 3700X64 GB1 TB NVME109Seems good, Specs are good and i've used them for testing before and their network is decent
OVHSYS-5-SSD-32Dedicated4C/8T Xeon @3.8/4.2G32 GB900 GB Nvme30.31(57.19)One of their datacenters has burned down in a fire before
Dedicated.comE3-1270v5Dedicated4C/8T E3-1270v564 GB512 GB NVME853Speak uses dedicated.com for their stuff for their encoder node software
Mythic BeatsVPS12Virtual4 vCPU12GB60 GB SSD44Hear a lot of good things, they also have raspi hosting. -$2 to the price for going ipv6 only
SecureBitC2M8Virtual4 vCPU8 GB80 GB NVME18Never heard of them, never used them. They have the same datacenter locations as hetzner, maybe a reseller? idk maybe they use hetzner colo
wholesale interneti9-9900k CustomDedciated8C/16T i9-9900k32 GB500 GB NVME129Heard of them, haven't used them

But you're right, that is Head heavy, I need to reconsider.