Is there anyone here who uses any hosting services in the UK to host a supernode? I planning on becoming a supernode, but need some advice on which UK based service providers are compatible and value for money. I can follow the supernode tutorial to set everything up, whether on Windows or fUnix equivalent.
Id use the centurylink deployment in UK. ctl.io has a one click deployment that has all the pieces for a supernode and they give you 500 dollars of vm space.
I’m running mine from home. The requirements are pretty low for NIS so I just added Hyper-V role to a machine I use for music, file-sharing, backup, etc. Installed Debian following @Paul excellent post and all is good
Thanks guys, will give that a go.
How long does the free trial last for? i.e. I sign up today with my $500 credit, as I use the free trial the credit is used up as expected every month, but how long is it before they start to charge for usage, is it when the $500 runs out, or is it after a specified amount of time e.g. 12 months?
Also, is the $500 usable against your monthly charges for using the cloud service? You mentioned $500 towards VM space, not sure how that relates to cloud usage. So for example if it cost $10 per month for using their 2GB RAM server, I could use this for 50 months???
I’ve ran the price estimator for ctl.io, and for a 1 CPU and 2GB RAM works out at around $30+ dollars per month after the free trial runs out, which is triple of other providers like amazon and vultr.
@KingCole - If your machine is running at home, do you use NAT on your router to translate your private IP address to public? As my router has only one public IP where all outbound traffic hides behind, I think some sort of static NAT or static routes need to be set up. Just wondering how delegated harvesting to your supernode would have been set up if both supernode and your main account machine are on the same internal private network, but both go outbound of the same router.
The trial runs out when the 500 dollars is out of money. I would say it priced about average. Its cheaper than azure. AWS its somewhat close to in price. Plus it automated for you.
Plus if you have problems you can slack me in the nem channel and I can help you. You wont get that with the other providers. 
Im not on the forum very much obviously but I always have slack channel open. User is ctl_baas if you need help