ServersAlex

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99.9% SLA is worthless without defined compensation · General Discussion

Brazil perspective: local hosts advertise 99.99% but the compensation is "we'll investigate." International hosts with real SLAs often price in USD, which hurts when Real drops. I have one client on OVHcloud — https://www.ovhcloud.com — because they bill in BRL and have a real SLA. Not the best upti...

ServersAlex 8mo ago

What do you use for remote BIOS flashing without IPMI? · Dedicated Servers

Same problem, different datacenter

ServersAlex 9mo ago

Contabo completely vanished—anyone got a ping? · Web Hosting

Has anyone confirmed their Mumbai DC status? Got a client there who says his site's still fast for Indian users but he can't reach the panel. Same split-brain as Singapore?

ServersAlex 9mo ago

What do you use for documenting your network that you'll actually maintain? · Networking

Paulo3 said:

Shared Google Sheet for IP allocations

Same. São Paulo here too, and between the latency to anything hosted in US-East and the cost of anything local, a Google Sheet is what actually loads when I need it. I tried self-hosting IPAM and gave up after the third time I needed an I...

ServersAlex 9mo ago

Yearly prepay is gambling on provider survival · VPS Hosting

In São Paulo we get killed on USD conversion and IOF tax. Yearly saves me 15% on forex spread plus the provider discount. I use Hostinger's São Paulo DC for local latency — https://www.hostinger.com.

Monthly is a luxury for people with EUR or USD salaries.