armstrongvds

Ampere box, 80W idle, 200W peak. Mirror rebuild? Hours, not days. Power cost over 3 years: RAID 5 cheap on disk, expensive on watts during extended degraded. I run 12x4TB mirrors. Rebuild 90 minutes. Watts are the real currency.

I've been running secondary NSD on a tiny KnownHost instance for a couple of years now. NOTIFY from the registrar primary, AXFR restricted to my IP. It's been completely uneventful which is exactly what you want from DNS. The thing nobody mentions is the SOA expiry and refresh values. If your primar...

TAYGA on a $3 Racknerd box worked for me as experiment. Throughput was 200 Mbps, CPU-bound on the translation. Not worth for production. Ampere handles it better but why waste the cores.

ARM efficiency does not help if you create unnecessary work.

Insane value on those Ampere chips!! I use Vultr's ARM tier and sshguard + nftables is basically free.

Specs for context:

• 2x Neoverse N1
• 4GB RAM, but I tested identical config on their 512MB plan and it still flies

@fanboy H...

Maybe. You know. Pending sectors aren't death. You know. Maybe they remap on next write. Or they don't. You know. 8 is maybe nothing. Maybe 8000 is something. You know. Smart is maybe just a suggestion. Or maybe not...

Just spun up a Hostinger ARM box in Singapore and WOW! Ampere Altra, 2 cores, 4GB RAM for that $14/yr price?? Insane value! My old x86 VPS runs circles around it on power draw but the ARM chip absolutely demolishes it in perf-per-watt. Running Pi-hole + Home Assistant + WireGuard (https://www.wiregu...

Seoul, 2019. Saw a K-indie band in a basement near Hongdae. 50 people, maybe 30 watts of PA power. The guitarist played through a battery amp. I counted the watts. I always count the watts. The experience per watt ratio was extraordinary. ARM enjoyer, but some circuits don't need to be efficient to...

Same situation here in Seoul, my provider also uses 30000+ range. I run Caddy on the NAT box with local port 8443 mapped to public 30001, then my "real" VPS handles 443 and forwards based on SNI. The latency Seoul to Singapore is...

20 ports is insane value on ARM! My Ampere NAT box at OVHcloud runs 14 services on 18 ports and still has headroom. The efficiency of Neoverse cores means less overhead per forwarded connection!

Specs:

• 4x Ampere Altra
• 2GB RAM
• 20 ports = $15/year

I run a small CI farm on Ampere in Seoul and the block storage there is consistent enough. Not amazing, not terrible. The local NVMe is where the ARM boxes shine anyway. I wouldn't put a database on networked storage regardless of...