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I did some tests on one of MikeA's 3900X VMs a couple of months ago, and commented on the LET thread at the time. It was great, beating my i7-3770 on per-core basis by a substantial margin, maybe 1.5x, I don't remember the numbers. The 4-core dedi…
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(Quote) Well, 16 cores with 128gb ram is 8gb per core as mentioned, similar to the E3-12xx servers with 32gb and 4 cores that I'm used to. Those sometimes do run out of cpu, though with 16 cores it's less likely to happen by unlucky concidence of a…
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The other thing I'd want with an offer like this is the availability of a lot of HDD storage. Something like BuyVM slices (mountable block storage) would be great, but a separate storage VPS in the same data center with fast local network and prefe…
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(Quote) There are 2 threads per core, so 4gb per thread = 8gb per core. This is a $750 cpu ($47 per core) so it would seem a bit underconfigured with just 64gb of ram. I don't know what 32gb ecc ram modules cost these days though.
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Sounds nice! How does the CPU load look so far, and what is the HW configuration? Assuming 128GB with VM's getting reserved memory, that's 8GB per core. It occurs to me that for this kind of product, I don't expect (or want to pay for) dedicated …
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Well it's up to you, but I would say that unlike hosting (where the customer is dealing with the host as soon as they press an order button), with a freelancer there is no dealing taking place (i.e. no funds or work being committed) until there have…
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(Quote) I don't think it's similar to hosting: hosts are required to have an ordering system too (or at least on LET they were). Unlike hosting, one doesn't hire a freelancer/consultant based purely on an LET offer. It's more like: contact the per…
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I'm able to take on some work and obviously am ok with customers knowing my name, but would rather not have it on the site, especially on the search indexed part.
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Does tag require putting real name on the site?
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So what are the fallbacks? cpanel -> directadmin, does anyone miss cpanel? whmcs -> blesta, same? What about solus: is it time for stallion world dimunition domination? Anything else?
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There have been a few other incidents where a DC kept servers alive for a while after a reseller deadpooled, so customers could retrieve their data. It just seemed like a good and thoughtful gesture.
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It's a cute idea but tetech's reservations are well taken, and also NAT services are frequent DDOS targets and generally low end enough (many many containers per hardware node) that trying to build high availability services from them seems a bit mi…
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Joepie91 is great but he should charge a lot more than he does ;-). Overall nothing against this in principle but I figure this audience is way too cheap for freelancing here to be worthwhile. I see huge amounts of money going to products that are…
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(Quote) SARs are something financial service businesses (FSB's, like banks, payment service, etc) have to deal with. CC is not an FSB and the regulations don't apply to them. I don't know if they are allowed to file SARs but either way they are no…
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Know Your Customer (KYC) and money transmission regulations in the US mean Fastspring has to know where the money is going or they can be in big trouble. They should be filing SAR's (suspicious activity reports) with the US Treasury about those pay…
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The 80% is likely to hold imho. It is around that level for AWS and GCS, depending.
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Those prices don't seem so great compared to hetzner cloud or scaleway bare metal.
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Wonder if they're selling because the cpanel price hike backfired so they don't want it any more.
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Slashdot , oooh. https://slashdot.org/submission/10839520/20-low-end-vps-providers-shutting-down-in-a-deadpooling-scam
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Crap, I could have used some of that. There's some more up now but the current one isn't what I want. Will keep watching. Should set up some way to monitor the bot and alert on istuff of interest.
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I had one of @MikeA's 3900x vm's for a month and it was fantastic, did several compute heavy tasks on it and it outran my 3770x dedi on per-core basis. Scaleway.com lets you spin up a bare metal 7401P dedi for 0.80 euro/hour if that's of any intere…
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Lol, it's wednesday and cyber monday flash sale is still going on. I've had a few of these (thanks WSS) and they have been solid, though cpu speed hasn't been the best. I'm down to just one now, running a lightweight service, so performance isn't …
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Please keep the uploads around. Imgur deletes inactive ones which means that old forum images are broken all over the web, not good.
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I didn't buy any servers! I'm mostly happy about that. The one really intriguing one was the EUServ 10TB storage which is hard to match any other way. I kept thinking I have enough storage, but the EUServ wouldn't just have added to it, it would …
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Lol, the other shoe (cpanel was the first one) is about to drop. Time to switch ;).
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What is the virtualization? Ah nm, I see openvz in the screen shot. Openvz 6?
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I don't remember what I had to do to bring the box back up, but it involved going into idrac and messing with the network or other boot settings.
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Even ignoring transcoding, I occasionally want to do something that uses a few hours of cpu. There are around 750 hours in a month so if my box is burning cpu for 7.5 hours and idle the rest of the time, I'm at 1% average cpu load, and that really …
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That 5 minute limit is pretty constrictive and IME with the Virmach deals of the past few BF's, the cores are relatively slow. But they are still excellent deals. I haven't bought any this year but resisted temptation for a few, and missed a few t…
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Are you saying someone who buys a VPS can get the data dregs from the last user, instead of getting zeroed out file space? That seems like a monstrous security hole. It should never be allowed to happen.
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Oh neat, I was going to ask about an API. Any chance of opening the API up to regular members with a reasonable post history? That would made it fairly simple for the Black Friday Virmach offers to have their own thread that got updated by a bot w…
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Rebooting the box under proxmox requires some kind of messy procedure with the idrac. Maybe it's not set up properly, but that such an issue could arise is itself an example of proxmox pain.
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I have proxmox on a dedi and it's a big pain and I regret not installing bare metal. If I can temporarily migrate the files I will reinstall without proxmox.
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I ordered an Instant Pot Nova Duo at a nice discount on black friday, picked it up at store today, and there's tons of recipes online. Will try something with it tomorrow.
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There's a ton of fake lithium ion cells out there (i.e. labels saying samsung such-and-such with all the right numbers, with some crap cell inside) so I wouldn't go anywhere near amazon or ebay. There are a few vendors that are able and willing to …