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by nixgeek 1971 days ago
Oracle, IBM, Alibaba.

On the smaller but still “millions of virtual machines” end of the scale: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode. Still have APIs and can give you instances in minutes.

Hetzner and OVH also an option for the scale of infrastructure that Parler appears to require, although their “Dedicated Server” offerings (Bare Metal) often take 24-72 hours to deliver to customers.

Or one of a thousand places to rent a rack and “DIY” with hardware from a vendor like Dell, HP, Supermicro, Lenovo, ZT, ...

Plenty of examples exist of sites which have spent years or even decades online despite being unpopular or illegal, e.g. The Pirate Bay.
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stephankoelle 1971 days ago
Hetzner has usually 10 minutes for bare metal.
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nixgeek 1971 days ago
In all the years I’ve been using them they’ve never hit 10 minutes for my orders. Usually > 4 hours and < 6 hours though on AX and other “standard specification” boxes.

On PX where you can specify NVME and other configuration, more like 2-3 days (particularly if the order was placed on a weekend).

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joezydeco 1971 days ago
Peter from The Pirate Bay recently commented on the Parler situation.

TLDR: what a bunch of lightweight crybabies...

https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1348194329005875203

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