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PacketpunkUma

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Your looking glass lies and we both know it · Networking

Wait. You are telling me the looking glass is not even on the same infrastructure as the actual network? That is broken by design! I have seen some things in this industry but this takes the cake! No wonder people dont trust providers anymore! The whole point of a looking glass is to see what the ne...

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Scam: fake 'server migration' phishing got my credentials · General Discussion

steveipw said:
ZFS send to a separate pool

This is the way! But you are preaching to the choir here friend! The people who need to hear it are running WordPress on ten dollar shared hosting with no backups! We need a sticky thread! "You are not the customer, you are the product, and the pr...

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Finally retired my last spinning rust boot drive · Dedicated Servers

Finally retired my last spinning Rust boot drive! All NVMe now! 8 years of waiting! My dedicated at Hetzner is pure flash! No more click of death! No more 30 second post waiting for the platters!

I have 4x U.2 intels and 2x m.2 samsungs and everything boots in eight seconds! Eight! Used to take ni...

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Do you read terms of service before buying? · General Discussion

Never read them! Life's too short for legalese!

But here's the kicker! My buddy at Contabo thought he had "unlimited" bandwidth! Turns out the fine print said 25GB! 25! They cut him off mid-project!

Now he reads every word! Poor guy! Took a to learn!

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Scam: fake 'server migration' phishing got my credentials · General Discussion

Contabo and Vultr and OVHcloud all got hit? Same attacker? Coordinated disclosure?

This is what I am talking about! Community defense! Nobody trusts the email! Verify through ticket system only! Mark my words! The lookalike domains are getting better! Check the certificate chain! Check the registr...

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PacketpunkUma 5d ago

Windows Server 2022 eval converted to licensed—my KMS anxiety · VPS Hosting

Brother I feel this in my bones! KMS servers go poof and your box is suddenly "not genuine" with a black wallpaper at 2am! Been there! Burned that!

Official SPLA exists through Hostinger at $20/month! I did not know this! Nobody talks about it! Microsoft hides it like a secret level! 💀

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PacketpunkUma 6d ago

What do you use for documentation when you have 40 cheap servers? · Dedicated Servers

maxbobby said:
The kind with lines.

This is the most PacketpunkUma thing I have ever read that I did not write. Respect.

I am going to try NetBox. Not because I want to. Because I have a server in Frankfurt I cannot account for and my provider thinks I am insane when I open tickets about...

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PacketpunkUma 8d ago

Can we agree that 'domain availability' APIs are garbage? · Domain Names

211 days and this still burns.

StuSpock said:
Registry direct? Which tlds mate?

.io and .ai are the worst offenders for me. Registry direct is a fantasy unless you're moving serious volume. Most of us are stuck with middlemen.

I ended up wiring five APIs into a janky aggregator. Still mi...

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PacketpunkUma 13d ago

Looking for alternative to Let's Encrypt for internal domains · General Discussion

Looking for an alternative to HostPeers's Encrypt for internal domains! My homelab is air gapped and the 90 day renewal dance is getting old when I have to sneakernet everything! I run a full Proxmox cluster with opnsense and about 40 VMs but no WAN access for the management plane! What are people u...