GeorgeNmp

Thank you, this is exactly the kind of operational detail I needed. I had considered tcp_mtu_probing but was concerned about the 10-second black hole detection delay on initial SYN. For interactive...

Contabo's ASN. They have a massive allocation and sell cheap, so naturally they attract customers who get listed. The ASN itself isn't on any major drop list that I'm aware of, but the reputation is "mixed" at best with the major mail providers.

What I find...

Not a theorem, an observation. fio with --randread and large queue depths on a VPS doesn't tell you how fast your application boots. It tells you the maximum throughput the hypervisor will allocate before throttling. That's a ceiling.

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You're identifying a real measurement-utility gap, though I'd frame it slightly differently. YABS measures subsystem ceilings under synthetic load, which tells you about hardware isolation and noisy-neighbor potential, not application performance.

What I'd propose: a lightweight template. Workload...

This is a fascinating legal position for them to take. If the technician is their employee or contractor, and the service is billed as "certified remote hands," they are implicitly warranting competent execution...

You caught me. Storage Box is not iSCSI. I run a custom target on a separate dedicated server with large spinners, exported via iSCSI. The €3/month was memory from early experiments with Storage Box (NFS root, worked poorly, abandoned).

Current target: old Hetzner auction server (https://www.hetzne...

JokoNord, what you are describing is common practice and technically rational from a provider's perspective, though customer-hostile. The IP is returned to the pool and reassigned; most budget host...

If you don't mind me asking, what was the network setup? I've seen similar OpenVZ hosts using veth pairs with no proper L2 isolation, which creates interesting ARP issues when they finally try to migrate containers to a new host.

RPKI and IRR are irrelevant...

Sort of, yeah. SSL proves a server owns a domain. RPKI proves an ASN owns an IP prefix. Your ISP signs a ROA saying "AS64512 is allowed to announce 203.0.113.0/24." If som...

I feel this in my soul. I live in Ashburn, literally next to the internet, and my residential comcast is 35Mbps up on paper. The fiber guys want $150/month for symmetric gig because my street is "low density."

At work we peer w...