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Looking for bGP session, single IPv4, under $50/year · VPS Hosting

BGP specs:

1U chassis
Dual PSU
IPMI license
Your own ASN application: $550 one-time

Tunnel broker is correct path. Contabo example has a looking glass. Practice there. No provider will burn a session for $50/year when IPv4 lease alone runs higher.

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DragonGone 2mo ago

Understanding IRR route objects vs RPKI ROAs without an existential crisis · Networking

hankels said:

Some of the budget providers in EU? Questionable

Munich is not the problem, the problem is the upstream. In Germany we have DE-CIX and the big carriers. Most peer at DE-CIX do RPKI now, but the smaller ones... mixed.

I work with a hosting company here and we had to drop one...

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DragonGone 4mo ago

Bought a dropped domain. Previous owner's SSL cert still valid. Concern? · Domain Names

lucgone said:

I contact the old host directly

German lawyer here, not your lawyer, but: do they actually have to revoke on request from a third party? The certificate was issued to their former customer. You are not the customer. I would expect them to say "data protection, we cannot discu...

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DragonGone 5mo ago

How many active servers do you actually maintain? · General Discussion

olespete said:

I rotate keys every 90 days.

90 days? I tried that once. After the third time I locked myself out of my own backup server at 2 AM I switched to hardware tokens. Now I have three Yubikeys and a drawer full of the old ones I lost.

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DragonGone 10mo ago

Windows VPS for Steam game server: my failed experiment · VPS Hosting

Steamcmd runs on linux; since 2013; your nephew will be fine; went down again; ticket open; no response

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DragonGone 1y ago

Poll: how many prefixes do you announce? Be honest. · Networking

11 prefixes. 4 are for anycast DNS nodes across Europe. Could aggregate better but the latency targets are different and my provider suggested splitting. Not sure I believe them but here we are.