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birdflow 1mo ago

Demand response programs are just hosts outsourcing their risk to you · Datacenter Talk

So the real answer is: if you want to avoid DR, use a host with no facility in a subsidized DR region, or pay the premium for the DR-free tier if it happens. HostHatch in Zurich. AWS in certain regions with dedicated hosts. Your own colo with a no-DR power contract.

This thread answered the questio...

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birdflow 1y ago

Securing SSH without fail2ban on tiny RAM · VPS Hosting

For anyone who wants the knockd route, fwknop is the modern take. SPA instead of port knocking, single packet auth. Still needs a daemon but much harder to replay. I run it on a 512MB RamNode box, memory around 3MB.

Not worth it below 256MB. The iptables-only solutions are correct for this t...