@tunafishtiger Unfortunately no experience with how taxes are worked out. I'd expect it to be 13% of the fair-market-value of the package (as filled in on the customs declaration) - that's the equivalent of sales tax in Ontario.

Sending a drive at the same time should be fine: is it bus powered or would it need its own power?

I've no experience with Asahi but remotely managing macOS in the past was a pain. Perhaps things have improved in these last few years?

@chihuamaranian The gap between homelab and ISP isn't as big as people think! Yeah, there's a financial hurdle and there's definitely things that are different out on the public Internet, peering over BGP etc. but it's just not that mysterious.

We shouldn't be afraid of running our own computers 🤷

@tunafishtiger No one has actually sent us a machine from outside of the country before, so it's a little uncharted for us.

We would pay the taxes and pass them on to you by invoice, but it's worth keeping in mind.

(And at the end of your time with us, when we send the machine back, you'd probably pay taxes _again_ to bring it back to the US 😦 )

@tunafishtiger Thank you! 😊 -- a Mac Mini would count under our TinyMiniMicro tier -- we'd put it on a shelf. It looks like it draws between 10W and 50W so that's fine -- it'd cost CAD $50/month to host it.

(Probably worth the extra $1/m for an IPv4; I don't know if a Mac is happy on an IPv6-only network).

You'd need to ship to our registered address on our site (2 Epworth) -- the only downer is that there might be taxes to pay on arrival in Canada, of around 13% of the value of the item.

@Lynx If you count the UK as Europe then https://lagrange.cloud/ is also similar-sized niche hosting provider, although they make no explicit claims about community / friendliness - I've found them friendly 😁

Previously @glauca were my other recommendation but I think they got out of the VPS business.

Very interested to hear of others that people find, though!