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FlowSana 1d ago

Review: 6 months with Contabo — boring in the best way · Reviews

Linux17 said:
Plex on the 4GB plan
One 1080p transcode = ~2GB RAM, one 4K transcode = ~4GB+ and you'll CPU-throttle. With 4GB total you're looking at direct play only, or single 1080p transcode with everything else stripped down. No QuickSync on these CPUs so it's all software.

For the pri...

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FlowSana 2d ago

Billing question: what's this 'ICANN fee' really funding? · General Discussion

I just ran into this thread.

YuriDavid said:
Endless meetings in Geneva
Having actually sat in one of those (not ICANN, similar governance body), the catering alone would eat a good chunk of $36M. The real answer is probably boring: compliance overhead, legal, the usual nonprofit bloat. Sti...

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FlowSana 6d ago

Never let an AI agent near your production shell · General Discussion

Lessons from this thread so far:

1. Principle of least privilege applies to automation, not just humans.
2. /tmp as tmpfs without size limits is a known failure mode since Linux 3.x.
3. Backup location must share zero failure domains with primary.

Practical recommendation: run agents in Firecracke...

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FlowSana 7d ago

Why does my SSL auto-renew fail every 89 days exactly? · Web Hosting

haroldgsm said:
certbot.timer masked or just stopped

[code]
$ systemctl status certbot.timer
Unit certbot.timer could not be found.

But I found it. /etc/cron.d/certbot from the apt package, plus my root crontab. Two cron entries. I am an idiot.

Removed the duplicate. Still want to know...

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FlowSana 8d ago

Why does my SSL auto-renew fail every 89 days exactly? · Web Hosting

Certbot auto-renew failing every 89 days, not 90. Pattern is too consistent to be random.

Environment:

  • OS: Debian 12.5
  • Certbot: 2.10.0
  • Web server: nginx 1.24.0
  • Cron: 0 3 * * * certbot renew --quiet

Log analysis from OVHcloud VPS:
[list]
[*]Day 89 03:00: certbot starts, g...

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FlowSana 9d ago

My migration script deleted all .htaccess files · Web Hosting

[list]
[*]Source: RackNerd shared, destination: OVHcloud VPS
[*]Used rsync with --exclude pattern intended for .git, typo made it .*
[*]47 sites migrated, all .htaccess files excluded
[*]Old host cancelled 6 hours ago, no snapshots available
[*]Partial recovery: 12 sites have .htaccess in Git repos...

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FlowSana 9d ago

Shared hosting for a small WooCommerce shop — who is actually decent? · Web Hosting

Sarah: "semi-dedicated" is marketing term for shared hosting with stricter account density. Typically 10-30 accounts per server versus 200-800 on standard shared. Not actually dedicated hardware.

Wilma, practical checklist based on your constraints:

[list]
[*]Current load: 50 orders/day ≈ 2 orders...

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FlowSana 10d ago

Full BGP table on a VPS without your own ASN — possible in 2026? · Networking

1. Memory baseline: FRR 10.0.1 on Debian 12 requires 2.8GB stable for dual-stack full feeds with 4 upstreams. Convergence after cold start: 4m 12s on Ryzen 9 5950X, 8m 47s on Xeon E5-2680v4.

2. OpenBGPD 8.3 on OpenBSD 7.5: 1.9GB for same topology. RIB compression reduces path attribut...