Jim,
You should check out Vultr.com. They do have a DC in Toronto, but I would bet that Chicago or Seattle would perform better to prairie Canada. There really is no border between .US and .CA from an Internet perspective. Seattle is only 5 ms from Vancouver Canada for example. Best thing is, it is really cheap to just fire up a machine there and check it out yourself.
For IRLP VPN, we splurged and went with the $6/mo higher performance VPS. Regardless of your choice Vultr always provides 10 Gbps interfaces. Typical local speedtest is 3,000 to 7,000 Mbps (although now speedtest-cli now seems to be broken in Debian).
One of the nice things they provide, is a totally automated BGP setup. After you get the LOA set up with Chris G1FEF, it only takes a few hours for your allocation to start working. Plus if you have more space than /24, you can bring other ranges up from different data centers by just configuring bird correctly /etc/bird/bird.conf. Documentation is on their site. IRLP now has a /20, portions of which are running from Chicago and Sydney. We are thinking about adding something in Dallas and Seattle. But no idea when, or really if.
— Dave K9DC
On May 17, 2021, at 17:33, Jim MacKenzie via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org wrote:
I have a 44net/AMPRnet allocation that had the appropriate paperwork done with Brian Kantor before he passed. This subnet has been delegated to me for a few years and I am using a VPS provider to advertise it via BGP so that it is accessible on the public Internet.
My provider is selling to another company that is unlikely to continue this arrangement. Also, it seems my five-year contract has expired so it needs renewing anyway. :)
Who is handling this documentation now? I'd like to arrange updated documentation so that I can get whatever new provider to sign on.
Also, if anyone has any suggestions for providers with data centres in Canada (or with low latency to prairie Canada, at least), I'm all ears. I have found a prospect in Toronto and am waiting to hear back, but it is far from definite.
Much appreciated.
73 Jim VE5EV