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A cheap VPS provider Dax used years ago faked his own death to disappear from the service, taking the servers offline, a pattern he later discovered the provider had done before.
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For his sick pick, Dax recommends exe.dev — not just because it's good, but because it fills a gap that was genuinely unserved. You could rent cloud servers, but they had slow disks. You could find cheap bare-metal, but the providers were unreliable to the point of comedy. [1] — Dax Raad "The market for fast, persistent, affordable servers has historically been filled by unreliable or outright fraudulent VPS providers — inclu…" 47:35 Dax proves the point with a story: years ago he found a cheap VPS provider in Miami. The provider sent an email saying he was going in for a medical procedure and would be unavailable for three days. Three days later, the server went down. A month passed with no word. A forum investigation eventually connected this provider to a previous VPS service that had disappeared under similar circumstances. Dax still doesn't understand the scam — the guy was being paid for a service, so why disappear? exe.dev, with the Tailscale DNA behind it, promises the opposite of this experience.
The market for fast, persistent, affordable servers has historically been filled by unreliable or outright fraudulent VPS providers — including one Dax used who faked his own death. exe.dev, from the former Tailscale founder, productizes the bare-metal remote dev setup with the same 'just works' reliability as Tailscale.
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