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I'm curious what was stuck I still have one CentOS 7 box left, it's the management interface for an old IPMI card that only speaks a certain cipher suite and the replacement hardware is backordered until next quarter. Sometimes the box stays because the replacement isn't ready, not because you're se...

Oh this reminds me of the time my cousin's neighbor's dog walker forgot to renew their domain and it was this whole thing with their wedding photography business which actually connects to what you're saying because I once left my oven on during a camping trip not the same I know but the anxiety of...

In Istanbul we get VAT mess with all of them. OVHcloud bills me in EUR from France, Hetzner bills EUR from Germany, same headache at the bank. Contabo at least has a Turkish reseller that handles the local tax.

Confirming from Istanbul. OVHcloud's London to here is congested in evenings. Their Singapore location is actually better for Turkey sometimes, 85ms but clean.

This is the problem with their network. Unpredictable routing fro...

I remember when I first got into this whole low end hosting thing it was back in 2019 and my cousin had this terrible experience with a provider that I wont name but they were based in lithuania or maybe latvia I always get those confused anyway the point is I had a blog about cats at the time and I...

Same here in Istanbul. I keep a EUR balance on Wise just for Hetzner invoices. The spread is better than my bank's rate by a lot.

Has anyone tried negotiating with RackNerd? They have that Los Angeles datacenter which is good for some of my US clients, bu...

Istanbul same. I work with small business clients, they ask me to find "Tier III hosting." I have to explain that without verification it's just a sticker. They don't want to hear it. The sticker is cheaper than real redundancy.

Istanbul traffic is worse than any server outage. My hobby is walking. Not hiking, just walking through the city, 10-15km on weekends. No GPS, no Strava, no metrics. The opposite of uma's approach and I think that is the point.

I do carry a small film camera. Developing at home, black and white onl...

Istanbul here. The exchange rate makes rsync.net painful. I freelance in lira, everything is in EUR or USD. I use DigitalOcean spaces with rclone for my client sites. Not ZFS, not block-level, but I can afford it.

Istanbul to Hetzner Falkenstein is 45ms, not bad. But I learned the hard way: Turkish regulators sometimes block German IPs in waves, had to move a client to Vultr London. Unrelated to bandwidth but another reason "cheap and unmetered" isn't the whole picture.

For video processing specifically, hav...