They won't let you sign up from a VPN. That's annoying but it doesn't affect me. Maybe they're trying to prevent Russian bots from signing up or something. Fine.
But after I gave them a valid credit card and billing address, they still won't take my money. Here's their support response:
"Your IP address does not match with the location you have provided.
In order to accept your order your IP address must match the actual location from where you are placing the order."
Ohh kaay. I'm traveling at the moment in a different US state from my billing address. I'm not in Mongolia. And even when I'm at my billing address, my main ISP is Starlink, whose primary ground stations for me are also in a different state than I'm in. So I routinely see banner ads on websites for stores that are 500 miles away.
It's par for the course for non-technical companies to assume that IP geolocation is in any way accurate. But a cloud VPS company should know better.
