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What do you expect from a Turkey-based hosting provider?

4 points by dpnet ↗ HN
Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on building a hosting and VPS infrastructure based in Turkey, targeting global users who are looking for cost-efficient but reliable alternatives.

Before officially launching, I would genuinely like to understand what developers, sysadmins, and infrastructure users would expect from a provider operating from this region.

Some things I’m especially curious about:

Network performance expectations (EU / Asia routing)

Pricing vs reliability balance

Support expectations

Transparency and trust factors

Features or pain points you feel current providers don’t solve well

This is not meant as promotion — I’m mainly looking for honest feedback and real-world expectations from the community to help shape the service in a better way.

Thanks

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nkmnz
Turkey ranks as “not free”, both in term of civil liberties and internet freedom.[0]

As a result, the most important question for me is: (how) will you protect your customers when they exercise their basic human rights or will you be a pro-active collaborator with the authoritarian regime?

Please don’t take this question personally - I admire everyone who has the guts to build a business and I wish you all the success! But a hosting provider is very much different from opening up a restaurant - it comes with a lot of power and ethical responsibilities.

[0] https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey

sxzygz
Security is the big thing for me. Anything non-trivial requires me to trust you are not snooping on any compute I’m performing on your platform. Solving this for your users in a proper way is difficult. Recently 3mbed has developed open source firmware for a Gigabyte server supporting AMD-SEV. If your service can leverage this technology to provide confidential compute in an affordable way then, assuming your network connectivity is good, you’ll have a really compelling offering.

Doing this is not easy and will require excellent technical expertise, but it is doable, and will be a big one up over 2nd tier cloud operators.

Good luck. I look forward to being a future customer of yours.