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vznatvps··on Show HN: Keep, an iOS app that helps you love how you spend every dollar
Does this not infringe on Google's app, also called Keep (https://keep.google.com)?
vznatvps··on Show HN: Bootstrapped Hosting company
NAT is an interesting solution and we offer 20 ports which helps people still host websites, apps and services on our servers without needing a dedicated IPv4 address (reverse proxy).

We have IPv6 support, you just need to submit a ticket after ordering and we add 20 native IPv6 addresses!

We have a rate limited SMTP port and if people go over this we will give 1 warning, ask for the reason and if it's valid then we will either just let it continue or lift the limit. Repeated offences will have services terminated immediately. Same goes for copyright offences. The resources are fairly small (HDD/SSD, BW) so it is not too hard to detect.

You may be interested (since you appear to offer DNS Hosting) that many of these Mini plans are used as DNS slaves because of their cheap price. An interesting use I've found.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Bootstrapped Hosting company
We started off with a few servers in the Netherlands and just hosted the Mini NAT only range which took off really well. We've now bought a server in France to start a dedicated IPv4 range. We plan to expand this range into more countries and more places as it grows. Obviously then we will need a few more techs to manage the servers and it would become less bootstrapped.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
You're welcome!
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We have that, clients can just submit a ticket and we're happy to do it.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Changed to all your suggestions, thanks for all your help!
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Good news we've got IPv6 support coming by the end of tomorrow (hopefully). All existing clients will get an IPv6 address and all new clients will obviously get one.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Thanks for the advice, I'll get someone to proofread it however at this price I can assure you that we have to dedicate the majority of our budget to technicalities.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Haha, yeah Bitcoin support was a good shout.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
At this price, probably not. In the future with different plans, maybe.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We now accept Bitcoin via BitPay.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Oops, this is a limit set by WHMCS not us. You can always change it in your VPS.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We were waiting till Stripe supported it, but we've just applied to Bitpay. If you submit a ticket I can keep you updated: https://definedcodehosting.com/client/submitticket.php?step=...
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We're a UK company but we house our servers in NL.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We offer it for £4/year not month. SO significantly cheaper.

A Raspberry Pi would not provide better performance than the E3 we have.

Anyway an idea: it's fun. Trying to run a whole LAMP stack or a RoR stack on 64MB RAM is more fun than not using all your resources. Also we're cheap and people like that. We might not always beat them in performance but we don't break the bank either.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We can offer clients the ability to reverse proxy their domain to their VPS so they wouldn't need to append a port.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Expensive from the DC. We're introducing it ASAP. Currently we can provide clients with a tunnelled IPv6 address to an Amsterdam POP. This still offers good speeds and adds little latency. If you desire this then please submit a ticket and we can set it up.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We could talk about accepting this. Fancy submitting a ticket? https://definedcodehosting.com/client/submitticket.php?step=...
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
You can run a whole LAMP stack on that.

EDIT: That being the 64MB.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We forbid it. Considering you only have 50GB traffic usage / month I would not advise it even if we did allow it.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We can reverse proxy you if needed. If you don't like it then this service probably isn't for you.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Out of interest do you have a URL?
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Fixed. Should learn not to write in a rush, ha.
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
They might sell them for that but when you're selling to a "low end" market at £4/year $10/address is quite expensive. Especially when we don't need a range bigger than a /27.

I agree there are still IPv4 addresses about but this teaches people that they are running out and we should look for other solutions.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
They all take roughly 0.75GB of space since they're minimal installs.

Yeah OpenVPN works fine on this setup.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Unfortunately OpenVZ virtualisation only supports Linux OSs because they share the same kernel. Since *BSD is not Linux based they can't be installed. Sorry about this!
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Oh wow. That would annoy me too, thanks for noticing it. Fixed!
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
There's no support for a reason. These are very low cost and therefore we're not willing to commit to providing support. We will help when we have time and where we can and I'd be happy to either setup IPv6 or reverse proxy a domain for a client if and when I have time. Anyway tickets can be submitted here: https://definedcodehosting.com/client/submitticket.php?step=...
vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
Thanks!

Fixed all of the external content warnings, thanks for spotting that.

vznatvps··on Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses
We're currently offering 32bit and 64bit varieties of the following: CentOS 6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04. If there is a custom template you desire we can probably provide it, just PM us or drop a ticket.
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