Add list of recommended hosting services

[horia]

Criteria:

• 512MB RAM
• AES-NI
• Own networking (dual AS stack)
• Own hardware
• OpenBSD ISO
• Allow email service

[savchenko]

DigitalOcean - expect inoperable ipv6. Tangentially related to #151.

[lostops]

Hetzner Cloud server https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us

[h3artbl33d]

OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Duh. Why is AES-NI an requirement? To help speed up the key generation and GPG actions?

[horia]

Why is AES-NI an requirement? To help speed up the key generation and GPG actions?

Although everything works without AES-NI, I would require it for performance reasons:

• Dovecot replication over SSH
• Backups over SSH
• Auto-GPG inbound Consider Zeyple (auto-GPG inbound mail traffic) #145
• VPN (ipsec) tunnels e.g. for logs (I experiment with this ;)

[horia]

DigitalOcean - expect inoperable ipv6. Tangentially related to #151.

How to “hack” DigitalOcean to run OpenBSD w/ native IPv6 https://mitchriedstra.com/2018/11/openbsd-and-ipv6-on-digital-ocean.html

The hostname, in DO control panel, must be set to the real hostname for reverse DNS. Thanks Franz Geffke for the link! Tested on 2019-01-31

[horia]

Vultr https://www.vultr.com

[horia]

RamNode https://www.ramnode.com

[horia]

ARP Networks https://www.arpnetworks.com

[horia]

anyNode https://anynode.net and Hostodo https://hostodo.com
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• anyNode no longer answering IPv6 reverse DNS queries
• Hostodo has broken IPv6 gateway

[horia]

Shock Hosting https://shockhosting.net

• VPS plans start at 1GB RAM

[Katzeilla]

OpenBSD.Amsterdam +1

I am running this on OpenBSD.Amsterdam, it's great so far.

• Running on dedicated OpenBSD vmd servers
• €60 / year (€10 will be donated to OpenBSD Foundation)
• 512M RAM (+€10 for another 512MB)
• 50G HDD
• Dedicated IPv4 (DHCP assigned) and dedicated IPv6 (/64).
• Console access with vmctl(8) using cu(1).
• Reverse DNS upon request.
• Running on AS3265 (XS4ALL) and AS60131.

[Katzeilla]

And seems like it does support AES-IN.

$ dmesg | grep AES
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,PCLMUL,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AES,HV,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ITSC,MELTDOWN

[horia]

Data Center Light https://www.datacenterlight.ch

• VM plans start at 1GB RAM