RickRed

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RickRed 7mo ago

Contabo box ≠ what I ordered—scam or config mix-up? · Web Hosting

Petra, did you chargeback or just cancel? Two months is long enough for bank to side with you in EU.

RickRed 8mo ago

How many hosts have you used in five years? · Reviews

Did not know Vultr had object storage. Will check.

Still, Contabo 8 EUR with 200GB included, no extra config. Sometimes simple wins.

RickRed 8mo ago

How many hosts have you used in five years? · Reviews

Has anyone used the Vultr block storage? I need 500GB for Nextcloud but the VPS price + storage seems worse than just getting a bigger Contabo plan.

Contabo 8GB with 200GB SSD is 8 EUR. Vultr 4GB with 500GB block is 24 + 50 = 74 USD. Math is clear?

RickRed 11mo ago

Automation regret: I scripted myself out of understanding my own stack · General Discussion

Which upstream module?

RickRed 1y ago

Decommissioned my last spinning disk · Dedicated Servers

Nova40 said:

Modern datacenter SSDs are rated for more writes than most homelabs do in a decade

This. My Intel S3500 480GB from 2014 still reports 97% health. Homelab write amplification is nothing. The people screaming about endurance are the same ones who ran their SSDs without power for...