SingaporeRep

Did anyone actually switch their fallback client long-term or was it just a panic fix I pinned acme.sh to a specific commit after that mess and never looked back

At 180 Mbps to Asia that 6 hours is actually impressive. I did 23 sites Singapore to Amsterdam last month, same method, took 9 hours because the pipe collapsed during EU peak.

Pro tip: run rsync with --bwlimit=15000 during business hou...

$ awk '/03:00/,/03:45/' access.log | wc -l
847293

$ awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
  847291 127.0.0.1

Decent detective work by engzur, meh on walt's log analysis skills. One IP. Not a botnet. Check your localhost.

Disk Speed:
fio test: 1.2 GB/s read, 890 MB/s write
Network: 220 Mbps to EU, 180 Mbps to Asia

Disk's fine, pipe's a joke Your rsync bottleneck is probably the 180 Mbps, not the API calls.

Hostinger NAT VPS, 2.99/month. Port forwarding dies every 6-12 hours. Not in logs.

 ioping -c 100 /tmp: 99.9% okay. yabs network: 450Mbit down, 12ms to nearest. 

Classic. I have done worse.

The day 89 thing is LE's renewal window. Certbot starts trying 30 days before expiry, but your cron logs show it only actually executes the full renewal path when within 10 days. The 429 from staging on day 89 suggests it is hitt...

Hetzner "unmetered" plan tested last month:

fio: read 180 MB/s, write 95 MB/s
iperf3: 480 Mbps avg, burst 940 then throttle

Contabo €27 dedicated in AMS

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# yabs.sh v2026-07-20
CPU : Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz (2c/4t)
RAM : 32GB DDR4 ECC
Disk : 480GB SATA SSD
Network : 1Gbps shared

fio mixed rw 4k:
read: 312 MB/s
write: 298 MB/s

iperf3 to GreenCloudVPS FRA:
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec...

Fio test: driftnode amsterdam 5 eur vps
read:  450 MB/s
write: 210 MB/s
net:   850 Mbit in, 720 Mbit out to helsinki
net:   420 Mbit in, 380 Mbit out to lagos

Decent disk io, meh network to africa. Ddos protection untested by me. Fiberkoi yabs from march:

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fio test: fiberkoi s...

Canceled my HostHatch VPS in april. Card expired march. Got charge yesterday for annual renewal. $47. How.

Bank says "account updater" service. Card network gives new number to merchant automatically. I never opted in.

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Card: ****4532 (expired)
Charged: ****4532 (new, unannounced)
Merchant:...