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So far I've found these providers offering small VPSes for $3 or less per month in Finland: Gullo (Hetzner) Upcloud (own DC) Unclear if qualify Godlike (under $3 plan is just a promotion that does not renew) FinlandVPS (no network information that can be verified) Disqualified HostVDS (routes domestic traffic through Russia) The.hosting (routes domestic traffic through Sweden, shutting down operations) Tietokettu (outside Helsinki metro area)

Hi guys, I’m looking for a GPU server for a short batch-processing job. Requirements: Hourly billing 24 GB VRAM minimum RTX 3090 / 4090 / A5000 or similar Preferably 48 GB if the price is good Ready-to-use image with CUDA + vLLM or Ollama OpenAI-compatible API would be ideal Qwen 14B/32B or similar model Good disk/network speed for downloading models Around 5–15 hours of usage initially I don’t need a monthly dedicated server or a long-term contract. Just something quick to deploy, run the batch and destroy afterwards. Any provider offering free trial credit, initial credit or a cheap test would be even better. I already know RunPod and Vast.ai, but I’m curious if anyone here knows a smaller provider or a good current deal. Thanks!

TL;DR: Paid $11 for a VPS. No stock after payment. Promised refund in 7-14 business days. Over a month later — nothing. Three recovery channels all dead-ended. Even a pre-LET warning email was read and ignored. The timeline: Late June: Paid $11 via Alipay (UnionPay credit card). Immediately told "no stock available." Support promised a refund within 7-14 business days. July (weeks of chasing): Ticket #1470108 — repeatedly asked for status. Agent Sabry A eventually closed the ticket and told me not to open any more. Three dead-end recovery channels: CloudCone ticket → closed, ignored Alipay 95188 dispute → rejected, "contact the merchant yourself" Bank (BOC) chargeback → bounced back to Alipay, circular dead end July 27: Sent a courtesy warning email saying I'd post on LET. The ticket was opened (someone read it) ... then marked "Confirmed" again. They read it and decided not to respond. Why this matters: It's $11 — I'm not crying over the money. But their refund policy is a lie. If they treat $11 like this, imagine what happens with a larger order. Lessons: 1. Send a pre-sale test ticket before paying. If support is slow, that's your answer. 2. Use PayPal, not Alipay/credit card — at least you have a real dispute mechanism. 3. CloudCone's "7-14 business day refund" means nothing.

Hi, I'm hoping to get some help with a stalled refund on CloudCone. Timeline: June 2: Opened a ticket requesting a refund of my account balance to Alipay. I was unable to deploy any VM because the panel showed "Compute deployments has been temporarily disabled." June 3: A CloudCone agent confirmed the refund would be processed within 7-14 business days. The 7-14 business day window has now fully passed. After I followed up, I only received an automated bot reply restarting the same 7-14 business day estimate from scratch. I have kept everything on a single ticket as instructed and have not opened any duplicates. At this point I just want a clear answer from a human on the Billing team: has the refund actually been initiated, and if so, on what date? Ticket ID: #3568703 @CloudCone could you please take a look? Thanks.

I have been with CloudCone for more than six years, and to be honest, we had a very good run together for quite a long time. There was a period when I was genuinely very happy with the service and felt that CloudCone offered excellent value. Recently, though, things seem to have changed a little. I have had some concerns about stability, and when I contact customer support, I sometimes find it difficult to understand whether my question has been fully answered. I am not trying to criticise or attack CloudCone. After being a customer for so many years, I would actually prefer to stay rather than move everything elsewhere. I am just wondering whether anyone can give me some good reasons to remain with CloudCone. I would be very happy to stay if the service and support can return to what they were before. At the same time, does anyone know of any other providers that offer migration assistance or perhaps a small transfer offer for existing CloudCone customers? Thank you very much for any advice.

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Does anyone here use a VPS from hostingby.design ? Id love to hear your experience. Hows the uptime, performance, network quality, and support? Would you recommend them?

There is an ongoing DDoS attack against Tor relays , and there's some discussion of mitigations on the tor-relays mailing list . The attack mostly comes from Contabo and overload the relay's CPU (it's a layer 7 attack, not layer 4). Tor operators here may have noticed that their relays may be undergoing CPU spikes or overloads. For those using relatively stock setups and iptables, there is a simple script made by toralf which generates a firewall to largely mitigate the damage. It works by: exempting directory authorities and snowflake distributors from any filtering blacklisting IPs that make more than 8 new connections over a 2 minute period for 24 hours blacklisting IPs that make more than 16 new connections over a 1 hour period for 24 hours dropping attempts to connect more than 8 simultaneous connections If you don't want to use nftables or don't run a Tor relay, you can stop reading here. I've made a port of this mitigation tool to nftables. While it lacks persistence (blacklists are cleared on reboot), auto-updating of directory authorities and snowflake IPs (which should rarely change anyway), and only supports servers that run a single Tor process, it does additionally give more leniency to known relays, which allows it to be significantly more strict on non-relay connections which, unlike relays that may have multiple Tor processes per server with the same IP, never have a legitimate reason to open 8 simultaneous connections, so we limit it to 4. Step 1 (create the filter) The following is to be put in /etc/nftables.d/tor-ddos.conf : # set of ipv4 addresses to be dropped for one day set tor_ddos4 { type ipv4_addr flags timeout timeout 24h size 262144 } # set of ipv6 addresses to be dropped for one day (may include whole subnets) set tor_ddos6 { type ipv6_addr flags timeout timeout 24h size 262144 } # simply used to keep track of existing simultaneous ipv4 connections set tor_connlimit4 { type ipv4_addr size 262144 } # simply used to keep track of existing simultaneous ipv6 connections set tor_connlimit6 { type ipv6_addr size 262144 } # known ipv4 relay addresses, populated from tor's cached-consensus set known_relays4 { type ipv4_addr flags interval auto-merge } # known ipv6 relay addresses, populated from tor's cached-consensus set known_relays6 { type ipv6_addr flags interval auto-merge } # trusted ipv4 addresses that should never be denied define tor_trusted4 = { # snowflake servers 141.212.118.18, 193.187.88.42, 193.187.88.43, 193.187.88.44, 193.187.88.45, 193.187.88.46, # directory authorities 45.66.35.11, 66.111.2.131, 128.31.0.39, 131.188.40.189, 171.25.193.9, 193.23.244.244, 199.58.81.140, 204.13.164.118, 216.218.219.41, 217.196.147.77 } # trusted ipv6 addresses that should never be denied define tor_trusted6 = { # snowflake servers 2a0c:dd40:1:b::42, 2607:f018:600:8:be30:5bff:fef1:c6fa, # directory authorities 2001:470:164:2::2, 2001:638:a000:4140::ffff:189, 2001:678:558:1000::244, 2001:67c:289c::9, 2610:1c0:0:5::131, 2620:13:4000:6000::1000:118, 2a02:16a8:662:2203::1 } # hosters that allocate /64 subnets to customers from attacks seen in the wild define hosters64 = { 2a01:4f8::/32, 2a01:4f9::/32, 2a01:4ff:ff01::/48, 2a03:4000::/32, 2a06:be80::/29, 2a0b:f4c2::/40, 2a11:e980::/29, 2a12:2240::/29 } # hosters that allocate /80 subnets to customers from attacks seen in the wild define hosters80 = { 2001:67c:e60::/48, 2607:f1c0::/32, 2a00:1a68::/32, 2a00:da00:8000::/34, 2a0d:7f00::/29 } chain tor_input4 { # accept trusted tor servers (authorities etc) ip saddr $tor_trusted4 accept # limit filtering on known relays, never blacklist and allow up to 16 connections ip saddr @known_relays4 jump { add @tor_connlimit4 { ip saddr ct count over 16 } drop accept } # blacklist any ip that makes more than 8 connections/minute over a two minute window or 16hour over an hour window meter tor_ddos_fast4 { ip saddr timeout 2m limit rate over 8/minute burst 8 packets } update @tor_ddos4 { ip saddr } meter tor_ddos_slow4 { ip saddr timeout 1h limit rate over 16/hour burst 16 packets } update @tor_ddos4 { ip saddr } ip saddr @tor_ddos4 drop # limit number of simultaneous connections add @tor_connlimit4 { ip saddr ct count over 4 } drop # accept the connection so we don't fall through accept } chain tor_input6 { # accept trusted tor servers (authorities etc) ip6 saddr $tor_trusted6 accept # limit filtering on known relays, never blacklist and allow up to 16 connections ip6 saddr @known_relays6 jump { add @tor_connlimit6 { ip6 saddr ct count over 16 } drop accept } # is the connection from a host that offers an entire /64? (otherwise fall through) ip6 saddr $hosters64 jump { # blacklist any /64 that makes more than 8 connections/minute over a two minute window or 16hour over an hour window meter tor_ddos_fast6_64 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 2m limit rate over 8/minute burst 8 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 24h } meter tor_ddos_slow6_64 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 1h limit rate over 16/hour burst 16 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 24h } ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: @tor_ddos6 drop # limit number of simultaneous connections from a /64 add @tor_connlimit6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: ct count over 4 } drop # accept the connection so we don't fall through accept } # is the connection from a host that offers an entire /80? (otherwise fall through) ip6 saddr $hosters80 jump { # blacklist any /80 that makes more than 8 connections/minute over a two minute window or 16hour over an hour window meter tor_ddos_fast6_80 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 2m limit rate over 8/minute burst 8 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 24h } meter tor_ddos_slow6_80 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 1h limit rate over 16/hour burst 16 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: timeout 24h } ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: @tor_ddos6 drop # limit number of simultaneous connections from an /80 add @tor_connlimit6 { ip6 saddr & ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: ct count over 4 } drop # accept the connection so we don't fall through accept } # blacklist any /128 that makes more than 8 connections/minute over a two minute window or 16hour over an hour window meter tor_ddos_fast6_128 { ip6 saddr timeout 2m limit rate over 8/minute burst 8 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr timeout 24h } meter tor_ddos_slow6_128 { ip6 saddr timeout 1h limit rate over 16/hour burst 16 packets } update @tor_ddos6 { ip6 saddr timeout 24h } ip6 saddr @tor_ddos6 drop # limit number of simultaneous connections from a /128 add @tor_connlimit6 { ip6 saddr ct count over 4 } drop # accept the connection so we don't fall through accept } chain tor_input { # requiring syn effectively disables loose connection tracking (nf_conntrack_tcp_loose) for this chain ct state new tcp flags syn jump { meta nfproto ipv4 jump tor_input4 meta nfproto ipv6 jump tor_input6 } drop } Then, in your main /etc/nftables.conf , add include "/etc/nftables.d/tor-ddos.conf" at the beginning of your filter table and replace the rule that allows your ORPort with tcp dport 9001 jump tor_input (with 9001 being whatever your ORPort is). As usual, you should accept established and related connections prior. Here is an example minimal /etc/nftables.conf that allows SSH on port 22 and DDoS-protected Tor on 9001: flush ruleset table inet filter { include "/etc/nftables.d/tor-ddos.conf" chain input { type filter hook input priority filter; policy drop; # allow local traffic and replies to outgoing traffic iif lo accept ct state vmap { established : accept, related : accept, invalid : drop } # allow tor (with ddos protection) and ssh tcp dport 9001 jump tor_input tcp dport 22 accept # allow rate-limited icmp (other necessary icmp types like pmtu discovery already match ct state related) icmp type echo-request limit rate 25/second accept icmpv6 type { echo-request, nd-neighbor-solicit, nd-router-advert, nd-neighbor-advert } limit rate 25/second accept } chain output { type filter hook output priority filter; policy accept; } chain forward { type filter hook forward priority filter; policy drop; } } Step 2 (prepare auto-updating of known relays) You might notice that there are two empty sets that are only referenced but never populated. They are to hold an up-to-date list of all known relays. The script that populates them is /etc/cron.daily/update_tor_nft_sets : #!/bin/bash test -s /var/lib/tor/cached-consensus || exit 1 (echo "flush set inet filter known_relays4" echo "flush set inet filter known_relays6" runuser -u debian-tor -- awk ' /^r / { v4 = v4 (v4 ? ",\n" : "") $7 } /^a / { match($2, /\[[^]]+\]/); v6 = v6 (v6 ? ",\n" : "") substr($2, RSTART+1, RLENGTH-2) } END { if (v4) print "add element inet filter known_relays4 {\n" v4 "\n}" if (v6) print "add element inet filter known_relays6 {\n" v6 "\n}" } ' /var/lib/tor/cached-consensus) | nft -f - The awk command is run as the debian-tor user for security reasons (reduces the amount of untrusted data the unprivileged Tor process can force root to parse). If you aren't using Debian, change the name of the Tor user there. If your main nftables table isn't called "filter" (which is the default in Debian), you'll have to replace the hardcoded names in the above script with whatever you called it. Now, this will run once a day to keep the list of relays up to date, but it'll be empty when nftables starts on boot. To fix that, run the following as root to trigger the script when nftables is first started and whenever it's reloaded: systemctl edit --stdin nftables.service << EOF [Service] ExecStartPost=-/etc/cron.daily/update_tor_nft_sets ExecReload=-/etc/cron.daily/update_tor_nft_sets EOF Note that this assumes you already have Tor installed and the consensus is already cached. If you've just started Tor for the first time, you might have to run /etc/cron.daily/update_tor_nft_sets manually after Tor has synced to the network, as it is only able to get the list of known relays by parsing Tor's own cached consensus. If you ever want to reload the configuration, you have to use systemctl reload nftables . Do not reload it with nft -f /etc/nftables.conf as that will not restore the set of known relays from the consensus file. Step 3 (apply configuration tweaks, optional) Add the following to /etc/sysctl.d/tor-relay.conf to tweak network settings: # remain in FIN_WAIT_2 for only 10 seconds net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10 # send keepalives every 20 minutes net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1200 # allow TIME_WAIT sockets to be reused for new connections net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 # increase the source port range for outgoing connections net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 64999 # allow larger accept backlog net.core.somaxconn = 4096 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 4096 # keep inactive conntrack entries for 1 day instead of 5 net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established = 86400 # increase the number of conntrack entries that can be kept at once net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 131072 net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_buckets = 32768 Because you're writing to NetFilter sysctls, it's necessary to tell the kernel to load the module early. This can easily be accomplished by running this as root: echo nf_conntrack >> /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf Step 4 (reduce memory pressure, optional) Tor uses the system's default memory allocator (the library that implements memory-related functions such as malloc() and free() ). For glibc systems, this is ptmalloc3. Unfortunately Tor's RSS (resident set memory) gradually grows due to memory fragmentation. Considering the ongoing DDoS attack also increases memory usage, it's important for low-resource relays to reduce memory usage. While you can reduce memory usage by setting DirCache 0 in your torrc, that disqualifies you from being a guard or serving as a directory cache. Luckily, tests were done that show that the jemalloc2 memory allocator is far better at resisting memory fragmentation. To enable it, install libjemalloc2 and then run, as root: systemctl edit --stdin [email protected] << EOF [Service] Environment="LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2" EOF If you aren't using Debian, verify that you've set the correct path for libjemalloc.so.2. That will automatically select jemalloc2 as a drop-in replacement memory allocator. You should also enable zswap (add zswap.enabled=1 to the kernel command line in /etc/default/grub and run update-grub ) for further memory savings. Unlike zram, zswap has a physical backing device, but only uncompressible pages are swapped out there. Anything that compresses well will be kept in memory for faster access. To ensure the stored swap is encrypted, install cryptsetup and systemd-cryptsetup and run, as root: echo "swap SWAP_DEVICE /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=128,sector-size=4096" >> /etc/crypttab echo "/dev/mapper/swap swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab Replace SWAP_DEVICE with a swap file or existing swap partition. Make sure you disable any existing unencrypted swap in /etc/fstab first. Once you've done all this, reboot. You should see a decrease in your CPU usage during times of DDoS and your relay will be able to handle more legitimate connections. This is especially important for low-end relays that are already only barely able to handle the load they're given. Disclaimer: This is still a WIP. I'm in the process of deploying it on over 50 relays, so I may very well post updates with improvements or bug fixes. Additionally, it's not designed to protect against high-PPS floods. It's purely designed to limit the damage of a specific class of application-layer DDoS attacks against the Tor protocol. This is the reason why there are no micro-optimizations and why the filtering is not done in prerouting. Still, it should result in a significant reduction of CPU and memory strain caused by the ongoing attack. Some miscellaneous ideas for the future: Periodically update the authority and snowflake list (see __fill_trustlist in toralf's original scripts). Save and restore the blacklist across reboot, perhaps with ExecStopPre and ExecStartPost . Log a message (but take no action) if there are many connections from the same v4 /24 or v6 /64. Don't blacklist IPs if Tor was just installed and there's no consensus file to obtain known relays from.

I've been buying VPS for many years before arriving on LET in 2022, where sometimes I expected nothing, and got nothing; Rarely I got more than I expected, but it happened before. What I never got, was the sense that you had dedicated professionals around the clock looking after their shit. No waiting days for tickets to be answered (If its not your fault that something's not working); This is the closest I've got to a premium service for a modest price on LET (Given the package as a whole). The price is a bit steeper than the competition, but... is it really competition? With @onidel for the first time, I have the confidence to use an LET provider for production. I'm sure there are others here up to the task, but we like cheap stuff, and @onidel is the closest to cheap that got me an excellent service and support so far. Eagerly waiting for EU servers Keep up the good work guys.

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Become a Synteq Portal Pioneer I'm inviting a small group of trusted people from beloved LE-world to help test our new in-house portal stack before broader rollout. What? Our new portal replaces a lot of what we previously relied on outside SaaS to handle, so I'm looking for more than “does it work?” feedback. I want people to actually kick it around: provisioning flows, account states, billing states, service states, VM/server controls, permissions, API weirdness, security boundaries, confusing UX, things you like, things you hate, and anything that feels off. Why? We’ve moved beyond the old Crunchbits single-host VPS model. Synteq’s new VPS platform is built on a high-availability foundation with distributed NVMe storage, automatic host failover, and optional attachable block storage. That means customers can consolidate what previously required multiple VPSes into one more flexible VM, backed by a faster and more resilient infrastructure layer. The portal is a big part of making that work cleanly. We are not just reskinning old billing software. We are replacing major pieces of the customer experience, provisioning flow, and service management stack with something built around where I want Synteq going next. How? You do not need to find a bug or security issue to qualify for the offer below. What I'm asking for is a meaningful written review after you’ve spent some real time with it. Good feedback could include bugs, pen-test findings, weird flows, unclear UI, missing features, “this worked better than expected because...,” or “this would confuse customers because…”. You qualify if you fit into any one of these 3 categories: Donated and participated in the charity thread ? Automatic approval. Existing Crunchbits customer with active product(s) and an account in good standing? Automatic approval. Otherwise: truly active and contributing on LET within the last month, at my discretion. Simply reply here indicating interest and I'll send you invite instructions. The initial limit will be 25 people. You will also receive a form/guideline to use when submitting feedback. A qualifying review should be detailed enough that our team can act on it without guessing what you meant. Screenshots, reproduction steps, notes on expected vs. actual behavior, and concrete recommendations are all very helpful. As a thank-you, anyone who submits a meaningful review per our instructions within the given time frame will receive a lifetime Portal Pioneer VM. Portal Pioneer VM spec 4 vCPU 6GB RAM 100GB NVMe 1TB HDD Block Storage 10TB Bandwidth Fine print Usual promotional terms apply: subject to our AUP/TOS, non-transferable, no resale, account must remain in good standing, and we may migrate the VM to an equivalent or better plan/location as the platform evolves over time. Edit: Approved by DP

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