Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
Any other photos, for now just imagine really old Supermicro SC813 chassis with hotswap bays in the front, but I'll take some more photos once I go down to the datacenter "today" actually you know what I'm going to get ready now since it's already past midnight.
I was just getting myself distracted again working on the server configuration page while I was creating USBs for the RAID controller flashes. My thought process went something like "let me figure out what's a good Rufus alternative for Linux, oh I probably should also get a nice text editor too for when i'm work on wrapping up the configuration page. Oh no, WinSCP is for Windows, it's right in the name, what do i use for that? Where's my USB to SATA connector?" Then I found my USB to SATA connector, and I remembered I'm trying to copy off an M.2
@VirMach said: Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
This hits way too close to home.
PS: Thanks for the pics, loving this journey and the 3700X!
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
Everything looks normal, on our end. As in the switch is up, not overloading, technically has data over the period, didn't log an outage for some reason. Looks healthy, nothing lost power. No alerts from the datacenter, by the time I started trying to fix it, looks like it returned. Doesn't look like an attack, our monitoring system looks weird, if I recall correctly this means heavy packet loss (it has data over a period but... yeah I don't know how to describe it, just one of those things.)
I'll look into it a bit more just to see what happened, but I think we're in the clear.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
That's the one I'm talking about, on our end we get more granularity, what I was talking about is that it was reporting CPU and other data while being "down" for a portion of the time so that means it had some connectivity as it doesn't send data and backdate it. Which means likely heavy loss, not "technically" down but so heavy that it did report it as offline because it didn't pass the validation of like however many multiple monitors across the globe steady for more than X minutes.
Yeah, during the course of the "outage" (that was the effect!), the graphs were blank during that time period.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural. It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
@imok said:
When I make cappuccino in my coffee maker, I end up with a headache, like I'm drunk.
Why did I buy a coffee maker? That's a year of a Virmach dedi.
Edit: I'm bad at math. It's 3 coffee makers per year of a dedi.
With sugar makes sense why you’d feel that way.
I always kind of knew this from personal experience but I just looked it up to confirm it before sounding dumb. Caffeine either spikes blood sugar or something like that so if you also have sugar with it that can cause a bigger spike and blood sugar spikes feel like headache/drunk for some people I guess including me. Especially if you’re sensitive to one or both.
Try taking it with the amino acid L Theanine to reduce the spike and if you are taking it with sugar try something else or less. L Theanine also balances out blood sugar, allegedly, with coffee. If it feels weird taking vitamins with your coffee then you can be British because the thing that has it naturally is tea including black tea. That part I didn’t know until now, I thought it was only green tea. Makes sense why I used to always drink black tea as a kid with sugar and it was fine but not with coffee.
@CMunroe said:
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
@CMunroe said:
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
I'd love non-iran IPs.Feel free to swap me over when ever.
@VirMach said:
Cage nuts, I knew I was forgetting something.
Apparently I didn’t make a mistake, I specifically didn’t get cage nuts because these rails for the E5’s don’t need them and I knew that because I have a set at home. Oops already ordered like 800 of them I guess we need to get more cabinets.
@CMunroe said:
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
I'd love non-iran IPs.Feel free to swap me over when ever.
Okay I just need approval from a thousand other people and I can start on it right away. Otherwise we have to plan it out and notify people and I keep pushing it out until I finish the automated system for that.
@VirMach said:
Cage nuts, I knew I was forgetting something.
Apparently I didn’t make a mistake, I specifically didn’t get cage nuts because these rails for the E5’s don’t need them and I knew that because I have a set at home. Oops already ordered like 800 of them I guess we need to get more cabinets.
@CMunroe said:
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
I'd love non-iran IPs.Feel free to swap me over when ever.
Okay I just need approval from a thousand other people and I can start on it right away. Otherwise we have to plan it out and notify people and I keep pushing it out until I finish the automated system for that.
Please, notify? That isn't in the low end spirit. Gotta swap IPs in less than 24 hours. /s
@VirMach said:
Cage nuts, I knew I was forgetting something.
Apparently I didn’t make a mistake, I specifically didn’t get cage nuts because these rails for the E5’s don’t need them and I knew that because I have a set at home. Oops already ordered like 800 of them I guess we need to get more cabinets.
@CMunroe said:
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
I'd love non-iran IPs.Feel free to swap me over when ever.
Okay I just need approval from a thousand other people and I can start on it right away. Otherwise we have to plan it out and notify people and I keep pushing it out until I finish the automated system for that.
Please, notify? That isn't in the low end spirit. Gotta swap IPs in less than 24 hours. /s
We’ve done that too many times, it’s not exciting anymore.
This one comes up as HostHatch, they're from Iran? Just a joke, HostHatch leased it.
@taizi said:
sigh, can we get some IPs that are not from Iran?
Probably not it seems if they somehow own all the IPv4. Curious, how are you checking these? It seems like they at least moved these over to some representative in the EU. Is it just the shell company organizations you recognize?
@VirMach said: Probably not it seems if they somehow own all the IPv4. Curious, how are you checking these? It seems like they at least moved these over to some representative in the EU. Is it just the shell company organizations you recognize?
ping0.cc
I know lots of Chinese guys using their "wind control score™" ,which is useless at all,but since our goal is checking announce history,let pass and ignore that
you can check the ASN history here,this website don't provide any other language than Chinese,you can use google translate or just check its country flag
@VirMach said: Probably not it seems if they somehow own all the IPv4. Curious, how are you checking these? It seems like they at least moved these over to some representative in the EU. Is it just the shell company organizations you recognize?
ping0.cc
I know lots of Chinese guys using their "wind control score™" ,which is useless at all,but since our goal is checking announce history,let pass and ignore that
you can check the ASN history here,this website don't provide any other language than Chinese,you can use google translate or just check its country flag
One is Iran, other is Ukraine. Maybe Israel and Russia next.
It's so cold here I actually need to start running benchmarks on the Epyc servers so I get some heating when I sit down on my laptop. Right now they're the ones with the strongest fans set up to pull to the back and I'm sitting in the hot aisle so I'm just getting blasted in the face at like 10C
Show of hands, does anyone actually want the 9240-4i's in HW RAID?
The more I learn about it and work with them the less of a fan I am, I've probably convinced myself to flash all of them to HBA mode and get it over with before I waste any more time and you guys waste yours on it because the end result, even if perfect, will likely be worse than software RAID in every way (the setup, "lack of" maintenance, failure, support overhead, and the whole part where it's not really a RAID controller it's more like the capabilities of an HBA marketed as a RAID controller which may have worked 10 years ago I guess. Like quite literally they also sold it as an HBA, that's why I can flash them to HBA.)
@imok said: @taizi just curious what's the issue with the IPs being from Iran
most of issues happened if you want to use as VPN,I heard someone was using airport(which is provide massive VPN servers),bro using japan server to login his HSBC Bank account,and got banned by bank because bank think it is Iran IP which is in sanction list.
and that japan server IP originally from Iran ISP provider,rent though ipxo,and finally someone paying for that(the ban)
@imok said: @taizi just curious what's the issue with the IPs being from Iran
most of issues happened if you want to use as VPN,I heard someone was using airport(which is provide massive VPN servers),bro using japan server to login his HSBC Bank account,and got banned by bank because bank think it is Iran IP which is in sanction list.
and that japan server IP originally from Iran ISP provider,rent though ipxo,and finally someone paying for that(the ban)
Let's state this story in a different way.
Some group of people working at a 200 billion dollar company got together and thought the best way to ensure they're not providing services to a customer in a sanctioned country is to ensure that they immediately ban a customer for accessing their account from internet in that region, and their best way to represent "accessing their account from internet in that region" is to pull third party data on where the IP address was at some point in history registered, without much verification, to that region.
Yeah, I don't think the "issue" is the IP address at that point. Something more directly related though is that a lot of system administrators do similar "smart" security tasks, where they pull IP subnets manually once and map them to regions and ISPs, then block them from their network. Usually they don't even pull the list from a database, they just find someone's static list from 2017 on Github.
Still having issues even in HBA mode, and now I'm quite upset. It seems like some operating system(s) decided to just disable the hardware, like the device ID. I don't even think Windows has ever done something like that? That's a thing now? Probably all RHEL based version 8 and up (Alma and Rocky too.)
They specifically went out of their way to drop it even though it would otherwise "work."
Now I can't trust them not to just do the same thing with other HBAs or controllers. There's a difference between something not working because it just doesn't work and doing it this way. I mean I could "technically" do a workaround, by building custom kernels.
Trying to decide if I want to just give up on them and avoid sunk cost fallacy. I might just switch gears over to the E5's at this point. Either way, magic 8 ball says "oh my god, it's another weekend and you're STILL not doing the sale?"
@Wonder_Woman the 1TB HDDs are SAS which means above issue. That's what's holding up your build at this point. Let me know what you actually want via DM to see if we can make that work instead, or did you specifically want 4x1TB HDD?
@VirMach said: @Wonder_Woman the 1TB HDDs are SAS which means above issue. That's what's holding up your build at this point. Let me know what you actually want via DM to see if we can make that work instead, or did you specifically want 4x1TB HDD?
DM'd. Sounds like you need to take those cards out back and...
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?
I randomly drop in to see what's there. Biggest I've seen has been 6GB iirc.
@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?
I'm surprised it's still running. The old system used to break and need a nudge every other day. I know I joked about this before but I legitimately forgot how to turn it off though, like I'd need to sit down for a bit to turn it off "properly."
@VirMach said: Probably all RHEL based version 8 and up (Alma and Rocky too.)
We went through this and I think ElRepo has packages to re-enable the cards. kmod-megaraid_sas I believe. It's been a while since I had to work on one of these.
QuickPacket - Dedicated Servers in Ashburn, Los Angeles, Chicago
@Jab said:
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?
Did see a few dropping, I track it on telegram.
Might be worth to keep an eye
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@VirMach Can we get some pics of the new hardware.
Sure, I know I have at least one photo where I asked my friend if they liked my cable management, and this is someone who has no idea how servers work or what they were looking at so they just changed the subject.
Any other photos, for now just imagine really old Supermicro SC813 chassis with hotswap bays in the front, but I'll take some more photos once I go down to the datacenter "today" actually you know what I'm going to get ready now since it's already past midnight.
I was just getting myself distracted again working on the server configuration page while I was creating USBs for the RAID controller flashes. My thought process went something like "let me figure out what's a good Rufus alternative for Linux, oh I probably should also get a nice text editor too for when i'm work on wrapping up the configuration page. Oh no, WinSCP is for Windows, it's right in the name, what do i use for that? Where's my USB to SATA connector?" Then I found my USB to SATA connector, and I remembered I'm trying to copy off an M.2
@VirMach Is that a VirMach IO shield?
This hits way too close to home.
PS: Thanks for the pics, loving this journey and the 3700X!
Anyone else with a San jose server down?
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
yeah
Maybe native IPv6 getting deployed. /s
Whole of SJ fubar'ed an hour ago.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
Everything looks normal, on our end. As in the switch is up, not overloading, technically has data over the period, didn't log an outage for some reason. Looks healthy, nothing lost power. No alerts from the datacenter, by the time I started trying to fix it, looks like it returned. Doesn't look like an attack, our monitoring system looks weird, if I recall correctly this means heavy packet loss (it has data over a period but... yeah I don't know how to describe it, just one of those things.)
I'll look into it a bit more just to see what happened, but I think we're in the clear.
Anyone still having specific issues?
@VirMach
(Now back, displaying nearly flat lines, for the duration.)
Downtime: 1 hr 24 min
https://status.virm.ac/ showed the outage - not loading just now.
https://ibb.co/JjtjDrgQ
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
That's the one I'm talking about, on our end we get more granularity, what I was talking about is that it was reporting CPU and other data while being "down" for a portion of the time so that means it had some connectivity as it doesn't send data and backdate it. Which means likely heavy loss, not "technically" down but so heavy that it did report it as offline because it didn't pass the validation of like however many multiple monitors across the globe steady for more than X minutes.
Yeah, during the course of the "outage" (that was the effect!), the graphs were blank during that time period.
In stasis until the shitposting stops/abates.
Than=compare;then=sequence:brought=bring;bought=buy:staffs=pile of sticks:informations/infos=no plural.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away. || NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh).
I did definitely see a lot of packet loss and instantly at 100%. Maybe a bad BGP announcement or such?
Cage nuts, I knew I was forgetting something.
Power maintenance on dedicated servers, I don’t think anyone will be affected but just letting you know in case.
When I make cappuccino in my coffee maker, I end up with a headache, like I'm drunk.
Why did I buy a coffee maker? That's a year of a Virmach dedi.
Edit: I'm bad at math. It's 3 coffee makers per year of a dedi.
With sugar makes sense why you’d feel that way.
I always kind of knew this from personal experience but I just looked it up to confirm it before sounding dumb. Caffeine either spikes blood sugar or something like that so if you also have sugar with it that can cause a bigger spike and blood sugar spikes feel like headache/drunk for some people I guess including me. Especially if you’re sensitive to one or both.
Try taking it with the amino acid L Theanine to reduce the spike and if you are taking it with sugar try something else or less. L Theanine also balances out blood sugar, allegedly, with coffee. If it feels weird taking vitamins with your coffee then you can be British because the thing that has it naturally is tea including black tea. That part I didn’t know until now, I thought it was only green tea. Makes sense why I used to always drink black tea as a kid with sugar and it was fine but not with coffee.
I need to swap out the IPs we have in San Jose, they cause a lot of weird issues. They happen to be from Iran I think originally.
I don’t know if it’s related I’m just throwing that out there, what’s more likely that’s happened before is datacenter network engineers have misconfigured a second edge switch twice in the past randomly with no notification but they usually figure it out.
I'd love non-iran IPs.Feel free to swap me over when ever.
Apparently I didn’t make a mistake, I specifically didn’t get cage nuts because these rails for the E5’s don’t need them and I knew that because I have a set at home. Oops already ordered like 800 of them I guess we need to get more cabinets.
Okay I just need approval from a thousand other people and I can start on it right away. Otherwise we have to plan it out and notify people and I keep pushing it out until I finish the automated system for that.
Please, notify? That isn't in the low end spirit. Gotta swap IPs in less than 24 hours. /s
We’ve done that too many times, it’s not exciting anymore.
Playing Resident Evil 3 made it worse.
Since a couple of years ago, I feel dizzy after playing some games in my PS4.
31.57.55.0/24
31.57.50.0/24
151.242.15.0/24
151.242.3.0/24
31.59.128.0/24
31.59.212.0/24
31.56.30.0/24
iran,even one of them still using/announced in Iran today
not iran
not iran
not iran
143.14.44.0/24
143.14.34.0/24
143.14.10.0/24
not iran,even P&G ip's,excellent wind control score
not iran
sigh, can we get some IPs that are not from Iran?
This one comes up as HostHatch, they're from Iran? Just a joke, HostHatch leased it.
Probably not it seems if they somehow own all the IPv4. Curious, how are you checking these? It seems like they at least moved these over to some representative in the EU. Is it just the shell company organizations you recognize?
what, virmach has time to joke now?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
ping0.cc
I know lots of Chinese guys using their "wind control score™" ,which is useless at all,but since our goal is checking announce history,let pass and ignore that
you can check the ASN history here,this website don't provide any other language than Chinese,you can use google translate or just check its country flag
also,i remember some other folks said,if you got iran IP in ipxo,you can request to replace(not sure is it free or not,I remembered it is free)
One is Iran, other is Ukraine. Maybe Israel and Russia next.
It's so cold here I actually need to start running benchmarks on the Epyc servers so I get some heating when I sit down on my laptop. Right now they're the ones with the strongest fans set up to pull to the back and I'm sitting in the hot aisle so I'm just getting blasted in the face at like 10C
Show of hands, does anyone actually want the 9240-4i's in HW RAID?
The more I learn about it and work with them the less of a fan I am, I've probably convinced myself to flash all of them to HBA mode and get it over with before I waste any more time and you guys waste yours on it because the end result, even if perfect, will likely be worse than software RAID in every way (the setup, "lack of" maintenance, failure, support overhead, and the whole part where it's not really a RAID controller it's more like the capabilities of an HBA marketed as a RAID controller which may have worked 10 years ago I guess. Like quite literally they also sold it as an HBA, that's why I can flash them to HBA.)
@taizi just curious what's the issue with the IPs being from Iran
@virmach hba mode for everybody!
most of issues happened if you want to use as VPN,I heard someone was using airport(which is provide massive VPN servers),bro using japan server to login his HSBC Bank account,and got banned by bank because bank think it is Iran IP which is in sanction list.
and that japan server IP originally from Iran ISP provider,rent though ipxo,and finally someone paying for that(the ban)
Let's state this story in a different way.
Some group of people working at a 200 billion dollar company got together and thought the best way to ensure they're not providing services to a customer in a sanctioned country is to ensure that they immediately ban a customer for accessing their account from internet in that region, and their best way to represent "accessing their account from internet in that region" is to pull third party data on where the IP address was at some point in history registered, without much verification, to that region.
Yeah, I don't think the "issue" is the IP address at that point. Something more directly related though is that a lot of system administrators do similar "smart" security tasks, where they pull IP subnets manually once and map them to regions and ISPs, then block them from their network. Usually they don't even pull the list from a database, they just find someone's static list from 2017 on Github.
The people have spoken.
FTFY..
Which of the Virmach(s) has time to joke now?
Incl bot or Frankz…
blog archives
Where is @FrankZ?
Alter life with @VirMach and Virbot
The deals are coming in so @FrankZ is still crankin up
So where do I backup my 12TB HDDs?
true,these banks definitely using the IP database older than my grandma
Should I use the 12TB HDD to backup de 8TB NVMe?
Still having issues even in HBA mode, and now I'm quite upset. It seems like some operating system(s) decided to just disable the hardware, like the device ID. I don't even think Windows has ever done something like that? That's a thing now? Probably all RHEL based version 8 and up (Alma and Rocky too.)
They specifically went out of their way to drop it even though it would otherwise "work."
Now I can't trust them not to just do the same thing with other HBAs or controllers. There's a difference between something not working because it just doesn't work and doing it this way. I mean I could "technically" do a workaround, by building custom kernels.
Trying to decide if I want to just give up on them and avoid sunk cost fallacy. I might just switch gears over to the E5's at this point. Either way, magic 8 ball says "oh my god, it's another weekend and you're STILL not doing the sale?"
@Wonder_Woman the 1TB HDDs are SAS which means above issue. That's what's holding up your build at this point. Let me know what you actually want via DM to see if we can make that work instead, or did you specifically want 4x1TB HDD?
looks like you have no affinity with RAID!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
DM'd. Sounds like you need to take those cards out back and...
Is anyone still keeping track of vps.blackfriday website?
Kinda interested if there was anything 8+ GB of RAM last few days - should I keep an eye on it or out of luck?
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
I randomly drop in to see what's there. Biggest I've seen has been 6GB iirc.
I'm surprised it's still running. The old system used to break and need a nudge every other day. I know I joked about this before but I legitimately forgot how to turn it off though, like I'd need to sit down for a bit to turn it off "properly."
We went through this and I think ElRepo has packages to re-enable the cards. kmod-megaraid_sas I believe. It's been a while since I had to work on one of these.
QuickPacket - Dedicated Servers in Ashburn, Los Angeles, Chicago
Did see a few dropping, I track it on telegram.
Might be worth to keep an eye
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God damn things exists, even in Europe, but eeeh, need cheaperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@VirMach any coupon for 40% off vps.blackfriday prices deal? ^.-
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.