I wanted to kick off a discussion to get your take on two things: our daily setup habits and a slightly more "political" side of our industry.

1. Your Daily Driver OS
   When you grab a new VPS (whether it's for a serious project or just another $2/month box to add to your idle collection), what is the operating system you install with your eyes closed?

Debian: Are you loyal to its rock-solid stability and low footprint?

Ubuntu: Do you prefer it for the convenience, PPA availability, and updated packages?

AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux: Have you fully migrated here after the CentOS drama?

Alpine / FreeBSD / Windows: Do you run Alpine to squeeze every last drop out of a 128MB NAT box?

I'd love to know not just what you use, but why. Is it pure muscle memory, strict compatibility with a specific control panel (like HestiaCP, CyberPanel, etc.), or just RAM optimization for your low-end boxes?

2. The Elephant in the Room: Bulletproof Hosting
   I also wanted to broaden the topic to "bulletproof" or extreme offshore hosting providers (the ones that deliberately ignore DMCA, abuse tickets, etc.).

What is your ethical and practical stance on them?

The Privacy Angle: Do you think they are an essential tool for defending true freedom of speech, whistleblowers, and absolute privacy from government or corporate overreach?

The Nuisance Angle: Or do you feel they are mostly a safe haven for spammers, botnets, and bad actors that ultimately ruin IP subnet reputations (bad ASNs) and harm the hosting ecosystem?

I'm really curious to read about your setups and your perspectives on this!

Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 - 4c/8t - 3.4 GHz/3.8 GHz
32 GB 1333 MHz
2×480 GB SSD SATA Soft RAID
Renewal price $18.90/m
Renews Dec 22th.
CA (international) account.

It seems you can add additional IPs for $2/m/IP. Was that a thing before?

There is IPMI (not tested).

If you want it, you can have it for $16 + fees via Paypal.

ORL (Only Reputable LESbians).

Let me know.

All physical drives show status OK.

This is an HP DL360p Gen9 with a Smart Array P440ar Controller.

Do you know what should I do? Apart from taking backups.

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Thanks.

This is a guest post by forum user @alexxgg,

Hi there!

These days when the internet shares things in milliseconds, who of you have needed to share a file quickly? I bet some of you remember at least one time one of those cases.

As you probably know, in terms of web servers, we can share files with popular software like Apache, Nginx, and Lighttpd but this software need basic configuration, also they consume server resources as long as they’re active.

What if you could set up a basic HTTP web server without installing Apache, Nginx, or Lighttpd? Well, that’s sounds kind of impossible, and even more unbelievable is that you can kill it with Ctrl^C. Thanks to Python3 we can do that with its HTTP server module.

This module will deploy an HTTP server in any directory of the server, even in the root directory and that sounds ridiculously dangerous, fortunately, the default port of this HTTP server isn’t 80. Instead, it will use port: 8000 but you can assign a custom port, very convenient for NAT environment instances.

Now you can deploy a basic HTTP server -in the current directory with the default port- by typing this single command line:

python3 -m http.server

Starting HTTP Server

Killing HTTP Server

HTTP Server as Shown in Browser

You can change the default port (example port: 32085) and specify a directory (example directory: /tmp/) with:

python3 -m http.sever 32085 --directory /tmp/

More information about Python3 httpserver module is available here

Also, there is a github page here

Note: of course, you will need to install Python3 in order to use these post example command lines.
Leave a comment to let me know any questions or suggestions.

Candidates:

• Kobol Helios64
• HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10
• Shuttle Cube
• Supermicro SuperServer Embedded Mini-ITX IoT Tower
  

Specs:

• 4x+ real cores (preferably without SMT)
• 8-16GB RAM (ECC preferred)

• 6x disks

  • 2x boot
  • 4x storage (preferably in an external hotswap cage, which is what I really want)

• 2x+ USB 3.1 or up (for backing up the backups)

• IPMI/BMC/Remote management (this would be a plus)

Uses:

• Backups (mostly)
• Tertiary DNS
• Internal monitoring
• Admin tools (Ansible and such)
• Jump server so I only have to log into one thing when remote

This is something I've been looking for a while, and I've never really been able to find something that checks all of the boxes. Everything ends up being in the mini-tower form factor.

I thought I would see if anyone had any ideas.