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@MikePT ?
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Meh, at this scale I tend to want either super cheap archive storage where I don't care at all about server cpu or iops (serial/network bps still matters), or else I want lots of cpu so I can do stuff locally with the data. A mid-price mid-cpu setu…
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World domination plan step 1: ban javascript, step 2: ban google.
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I don't run anything personally that cares whether there are 8gb or 16gb. Occasionally I need more than 8gb but in those cases 16gb tends to not be enough either. So I'm cool with 8gb though I'd probably take the disk upgrade. Anyone know if it's…
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The graphics are individually nice. It's just that seeing one every time there is minor news gets to be a bit overload-ish, so scrolling this page shows it is mostly filled by them. That's just me though. And I'm sure your dev team is keeping bus…
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Woah, this actually seems to be recurring (Ikoula is famous for 3 month clickbait prices) and there are some nice upgrades available, like upgrade to 3tb hdd for +€5/m. It also comes with an obsolete GPU (maybe still good for something), with a €7/…
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Luks setup has an optional but desirable setting that causes it to write random data all over the disk when you initialize the disk. It is optional because it is a slow process, but you should use it because it conceals the amount of disk space you…
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(Quote) All their lines are brown now.
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Nice that there's a new OS release, but can we go lighter on the graphics unless it's something really significant? Btw I thought a little more about the idea of an AX41 (or AX in general) cpu upgrade and it's quite interesting, especially since ma…
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1 general beataround vps with personal and dev stuff and a small personal website, 1 vpn/znc, several storage vps, 1 shared hosting for static files, 2 dedis for storage/computation, several idlers.
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(Quote) Yes, the use case is intensive computations which don't require the AX61's 4TB of NVMe disk or its 128GB of memory or maybe other nice things it comes with. So the hope is just to keep expenses down. In practice the AX61 is a good setup th…
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(Quote) HGST is WD now. Oh well, we're another step closer to HDD's being historical.
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Thanks, Katie. The AX61 seems like a well-balanced machine that's a good setup for many customers. Some of us are CPU junkies though, so it would be great if a Ryzen 3900 upgrade option (similar to disk upgrades) was available for the AX41. ;)
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What does power end up costing per amp at either LV or Dallas? I still have some interest in this but have never really understood the economics. I know some EU datacenters are able to bill power by the KWH. I think that is rare in the US though.
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(Quote) DDOS protection? (Quote) Jeez what a spammy post. And usually these days when someone says they need big HDD, they want 100s or 1000s of GB, not 30GB.
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(Quote) I'll give it a try, but I suspect that the maximum is 32GB since that is the largest instance in the series. I think that is the case with the CX series but I could be mis-remembering. No idea about converting from one series to another, l…
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(Quote) Oh! I didn't realize that was possible. What is the maximum amount of ram available with the CPX instances? Note this still doesn't decrease the number of VM's on the machine.
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I know about CCX but they are way more expensive than CX/CPX. I like the CPX idea. The main interest of dedicated cpu dedicated Epyc instances (CCPX?) would be very large ones, like with 1TB ram. I couldn't afford to use those myself, but having …
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Each "core" is actually a hardware thread (vcore), ~ 50% of a physical core. So if the box is fully utilized then even without noisy neighbors you're doing good with 60% of what you'd see on an empty machine. I tested a CX51 (8 Intel vco…
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Cpu contention already? I guess I'm not too surprised. But that geekbench score looked pretty good to me, given the relatively low ghz.
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Nice, so that's what you were holding out on us! It will be interesting to see what cpu availability on these is like, once people start using them. I was hoping the 16 core model would have 64gb of ram (at higher cost if needed), since that would…
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This is great! I might celebrate by cancelling a couple of Scaleway dedis that I have idling ;).
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(Quote) This is way too suspicious, it's got to be around $1000 a month minimum. How could it possibly last? $400/m for a rack with 15 amp 120v is semi-believable (the 1gbps is suspicious) but that's nowhere near enough power for 42 servers. I ha…
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Oh, I missed that the full rack offer is only in Dallas. Seriesn, yeah one way to do this (if the rack offer was in LV and the E3's were still available) would be to become a dedi host, but I had been imagining more like a shared colo rack. I can'…
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I suppose I expected this for a long time and that's why I never cancelled C2 which is sitting around idling. It's nice of them to give this much notice. In fact it sounds like people who want them still have a day or two to spin them up. Or, if …
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@Francisco do you have any full racks of those E3 servers left, and would you up for selling one "complete"? @Fiberhub-Billy would there be a way for a bunch of us here to split up a rack like that? We'd presumably need a /26 subnet and …
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This is kind of interesting, especially if @Francisco still has servers for sale, that are already at Fiberhub LV.
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(Quote) I haven't found this: the new registrar seems to pick up the info. I usually leave the old DNS running til after the transfer is complete and the new DNS is set up. It hasn't been an issue so far. The old registrar hasn't seemed to turn o…
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I do use my domain registrar dns, but most of them don't have api's that are useful for letsencrypt dns authentication, which is required for wildcard certs.
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New Google SRE book is likely to be interesting. I liked the old one. https://landing.google.com/sre/books/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815453
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Digital Ocean also has DNS. It does not seem to be distributed or anycast though. Also, most domain registrars have free DNS for domains that you register through them.
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Certifications are mostly useless. Don't know about general purpose books: if there's a specific topic you find yourself wanting to know about, read a book about that topic.
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Are the servers all in EU? That would be a minus for some of us, I'm sure.