Non-Blacklisted VPS for Netflix?
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Hi all,

I’ve recently deployed a VPN in Google Cloud with the hopes of using it for watching US Netflix from another country, however, it seems that Netflix have blocked the Google Cloud public IP range.

As such, I’m looking for an alternative VPS that I can migrate to, preferably with a free trial so I can test before I commit to it.

A static public IP is not necessary as I am utilising a dynamic DNS service.

I’m thinking AWS may be a good start, since I believe Netflix host a majority of their services working Amazon’s environment, with the thought process being that they would be less likely to block IP ranges that may be required by them.

Obviously I could just use an out of box VPN for this but this is far more fun.

Open to other suggestions as to how I could make this work.

Cheers

Comments (16)

In order to avoid blocking by Netflix, you need a clean non data center IP address. Once you signed up any VPN using demo account, get their server IP address and enter it into https://www.ip2location.com/demo and check the results. If it has been detected as proxy or data center range, then you will need to move on to try other VPN.

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I’ve tried testing Netflix access from AWS. It’s hit or miss, but at least AWS makes it very easy to change your elastic IP address until you find one that’s not blacklisted. And usually, once you’ve found an IP that’s not blacklisted, it continues to work for quite a long period of time before you need to change it again.

The only issue with AWS is that it costs considerably more than some other VPS providers like DigitalOcean or Linode, especially for bandwidth ($0.09 per GB). You could also try AWS Lightsail instead of EC2 as bandwidth is included in the monthly fee, making it much cheaper if you use a lot of bandwidth (at the cost of less flexibility and customization).

Edit: Why am I being downvoted for contributing to the discussion?

Good suggestions. Linode, digitalocean, vultr, all should be suitable for your needs.

Not all of them offer to assign a new "elastic" IP. So it must be hit-and-miss.

These days, I couldn't evade Netflix knowing it's a datacenter IP from different US Locations with RamNode, vultr, Digitalocean and packet.net. Next would've been the major providers GCP, AWS, Azure.

I guess ip2location.com/demo link from @mcmron offering "Usage-Type" info (Datacenter vs Residential) confirmed my idea that Netflix bought that IP block info.

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if you have a place in the USA, could you not set up a VPN from your own connection. that way netflix says you are at home.