Good hosters for ipfs node

I am looking for a good hoster to set up my own ipfs node. It seems clear to me that I could use any hoster who supports server hosting. – But do you know of hosters being particlularly P2P-friendly or with special conditions for setting up ipfs nodes?

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Whoever you choose you should ensure that you block outgoing connections to the private address ranges. If you’re on linux you can do this with:

iptables -I OUTPUT -d 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 -j REJECT
iptables -I OUTPUT -d 172.16.0.0/255.240.0.0 -j REJECT
iptables -I OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j REJECT
iptables -I OUTPUT -d 169.254.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j REJECT

If you don’t do this your provider might consider that you are attempting to spam/attack other nodes on their network and become unfriendly.

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