HeadRich 1d ago
Just watched my provider's status page lie in real time · General Discussion
Yes, 12ms. It's called not sharing your status infra with the thing you're monitoring.
Buenos said:
12ms updates? On a dedicated box for a status page?
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Most people stick it on the same cluster, then wonder why the status page goes down with the service. The whole point is separation. Anyway...
HeadRich 1d ago
Is buyvm.net legit? Anyone actually used them · General Discussion
Hana5 said:
They don't offer it
Correct, no GPU. I asked sales last year before I built my own box here. They were straight about it, no upsell, which I appreciated.
For pure CPU/ram per dollar they're competitive with Contabo's lower tiers, and you actually get the resource instead of fi...
HeadRich 1d ago
Disputing a charge without getting your account nuked · General Discussion
Old thread but still relevant.
Hel said:
Mention prior ticket number in dispute
Also worth adding: check if your registrar is separate. Lost a...
HeadRich 5d ago
Who is the most underrated provider you have actually used? · General Discussion
olya said:
4 ARM cores, 24GB RAM
24GB "forever free" until Oracle changes terms. Again. I had 4 free tier instances. All gone in 2023 policy sweep.
My R740s have 512GB each. Paid once, own forever. No Sven required.
OVHcloud still king. 128GB min, actual DDR4 ECC, not "ARM maybe"
HeadRich 5d ago
Who is the most underrated provider you have actually used? · General Discussion
KnownHost? But how much RAM?
I asked for 64GB dedicated. They offered 32GB. I laughed. My homelab has 512GB DDR4 from decommissioned Dell R740s I bought at university auction.
My underrated pick: OVHcloud. 128GB minimum on every dedi. No questions asked. If you are not maxing dimms you are not tr...
HeadRich 5d ago
VPN endpoint in country you've never been to: legal exposure check · VPS Hosting
So I got this Singapore VPS from OVHcloud. 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, NVMe. €7/mo which is fine. But I'm routing WireGuard through it for my home network. Traffic exits in SG, I've never set foot there. What happens if some user on my LAN does something stupid? Am I on the hook under SG law?
I know the RAM i...
HeadRich 18d ago
Just celebrated 500 days uptime on a $10/year box · Web Hosting
So what are we talking, RAM-wise
512MB? 1GB? Shared core or dedicated? $10/year is like 80 cents a month so im guessing 256MB and a single vCPU on a node from 2019
My home lab pulls better specs and I pay more in electricity
Still, 500 days on any budget tier takes some luck. Or zero load. Which...
HeadRich 19d ago
What do you use for log aggregation on 1GB RAM? · VPS Hosting
kenji3 said:
Your constraint is I/O not RAM probably
Let me correct myself after actually checking. On 1GB with swap, your constraint becomes swap thrashing, which is I/O. So I was accidentally right. NVMe helps. Spinning rust would murder this setup.
Also Hetzner to OVHcloud: you are cro...
HeadRich 19d ago
What do you use for log aggregation on a budget? · General Discussion
But how much RAM
Your clickhouse + vector + grafana on 4GB? Tight. Very tight. I use https://grafana.com for that.
I run similar on 32GB bare metal at home. 2x Xeon E5, 64GB total, NVMe. Barely notice it. But 4GB? Hmm.
Have you considered just... more RAM? "budget" is relative. My time is worth m...
HeadRich 20d ago
What do you use for log aggregation on 1GB RAM? · VPS Hosting
You said 1GB. Is that 1GB with burst or dedicated? Because if it's KVM with dedicated 1GB you can probably run loki + promtail + lightweight query frontend. But if it's OpenVZ with oversold memory, forget it.
I run loki on a 64GB box at work, barely touches 4GB with 50K logs/sec. Humblebrag but rel...