Thursday, June 21, 2007

Bad News about VPN Server

Nowadays, I found out my BT speed to be degrade at about 20~30kbps only whereas I normally can achieve as high as 70~80kbps. I send an email asking about the BT speed and the VPN provider reply me with the problem.

From the reply:

As the server is no longer located locally, the speeds for asian torrents is bound to drop somewhat. This is due to the TM Datacenter's new policy of jacking up the prices so it is no longer possible for me to continue hosting a server locally (at least not at RM30 rates). All shared servers are now capped at 2mpbs whereas dedicated would cost me around RM600/mb

I've noticed your IP 219.95.*.* which is probably why you are experiencing slow speeds. I could put you on any server in the world (except Malaysia) and you'd still get slow speeds. I'll repeat this again, Malaysian servers can no longer be used for VPN services due to the increase in prices over there and their implementation of capping on shared servers. I'm willing to host the VPN at a low profit but I'm unwilling to make a loss either, prices have shot up by more than 1000% (last time was on 100mpbs shared, now they asking for dedicated bandwidth to continue hosting). 1mbps at the datacenter will cost me approximately RM500 or more, how can I afford to continue hosting it?

In conclusion, although we get to use BT but still not that effectively. Seem like TMnet is trying to put a stop on P2P/BT in the near future. They are trying to cap the speed connecting to the international server and restrict us to as much as possible. Now even the TM new policy has make the server hosting price rising very high, it is giving most of us especially BT users a very hard life.

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