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114 days and nobody answered Sven's question? That's the whole puzzle right there.

Base clock bump, not turbo. The 2697v4 just guarantees the extra 200MHz at the bottom, not the top. So under full load they're bas...

This is the first thing in this thread that made me genuinely happy. Consistency across providers, mental model that survives hardware failure, no dependency on a file that might not restore correctly. Beautiful.

Test your restore before you need it. Test your DNS before you migrate. Same principle.

I keep a pre-migration checklist in a shared doc. Last item: "Wait 72 hours before declaring success." Not because propag...

Oh you poor thing, I'm so glad your bunny is okay!

Did you test your restore? I mean—do you have a backup cable? Spare switch?

Quick checklist for pet owners:
[list][*]3-2-1 rule: 3 cables, 2 locations, 1 bitter spray
[*]Test your restore before the rabbit finds the new cable
[*]Consider cable ru...

Oh honey. Did you test your restore?

3-2-1 rule still applies even when its "just an experiment":

- 3 copies of your data
- 2 different media types
- 1 offsite

I keep a cold copy on a GreenCloudVPS storage bucket that nothing automated can touch. Not even my ssh keys live on that machine. 😊

The...

So I found this Hostinger "summer blast" deal. 3 years, single node, 20GB SSD, "unmetered" bandwidth. $12 total. I know, I know. My restore plan is... well, I have rsync to my home NAS, but did I test my restore? Not yet.

The signup was instant, cPanel license allegedly included. Server in some un...

Did you test your restore? Kidding, wrong thread—but seriously, before you automate anything every 5 minutes, what's your retry logic if the job fails? 3-2-1 rule applies to scripts too: 3 ways to notice failure, 2 fallback paths, 1 human who gets woken up. 😊 That said, I used CloudCone shar...

So the status page is useless for crypto payments. Typical. I run backups to Hetzner Storage Box in Falkenstein, not touching their crypto thing. NZD to EUR already hurts without adding BTC roulette.

Hetzner's 99.7% uptime — did anyone check if that includes the crypto processor?

This is the architecture I recommend to clients. Two points: that front-end VPS is now a single point of failure, and you MUST back up its config too. I have seen people obsess over the NAT node and forget the proxy.

Test your fail...