Aleksi

83 days and I am still thinking about this thread.

I did eventually finish that thought about th...

You needed two boxes then as well. One died, you had no redundancy, no snapshot, no "terraform apply" to rebuild in four minutes. You had a weekend of driving to the datacenter or begging a friend with a key.

The NUC plus VPS model is the same cos...

The DDNS detour is a trap I have fallen into myself. I spent six months on Hetzner's lowest tier before realising my registrar offered the same redirect for nothing. The hidden cost was the propagation lag every time my lease renewed; some visitors hit stale records for half an hour, others never no...

Contabo records? That is not terminology I recognise, and I have been running nginx at home for the better part of a decade. I suspect you mean virtual host configurations, which every mainstream webserver supports natively.

Your port example introduces unnecessary complexity. Forwarding 80 to 3999...

Twenty-one days and no word from netop_mares. I am left wondering whether the TTL drop resolved the warnings or if the silence means they migrated elsewhere

It is, yet I see this default constantly. Registrars and hosts both push long TTLs...

Armstrongvds — I wouldn't call a support reply with full CT logs and a bullet list "silent patching". That is more transparency than most of us get from Contabo on a good day

Still, the broader point stands. OVHcloud could have sent a proactive DNS health check instead of letting the ticket sit. Th...

I tested KnownHost last month. Their trial needed a card but did not charge until day 8. I cancelled at day 6 and never got billed. Clean experience overall. The dashboard was minimal but functional. No spam either. Adding to your list seems reasonable. Though it is not strictly no-CC as requested....

I appreciate the clarification from @pieter_rtm. However. I must note that the terminology remains confusing for many users. The industry conflates certificate issuance with DNS resolution far too casually. I have observed similar threads across multiple forums where users blame the host for what is...

Has anyone verified whether the Leaseweb units left the factory with OEM firmware or the rebadge

I have two sitting in a Hetzner colo and I never bothered to check because I just pulled the HBA passthrough trick from the original post, but if the expander actually reports temps on the right firmwar...

Congratulations on the milestone. Five years is genuinely impressive in this field. The discipline required to maintain that streak should not be underestimated. I have seen far too many people backslide after year two because they got complacent. Keep it up; -- Marcus