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Poll: Do you read deal threads for buying or entertainment? · Deals & Offers

Same here with AWS free tier. Not Oracle but same disease. I have three accounts from different years, one still has a t2.micro running a cron job I cannot identify. I am afraid to stop it.

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blogmedia 4mo ago

Poll: Do you read deal threads for buying or entertainment? · Deals & Offers

Three hours not fixing? Relatable.

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blogmedia 4mo ago

How many active servers do you actually maintain? · General Discussion

I run 34 WordPress instances on 2 servers. Could I shut down one? Sure. Will I? No, because the day I do is the day the remaining one has a kernel panic. I have seen this movie.

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blogmedia 6mo ago

cPanel price increase... Again · Deals & Offers

What was the migration cost

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blogmedia 1y ago

Finally migrated off my last annual prepay · Deals & Offers

armstrongvds said:

Idle draw around 85W

Exactly! And Vultr's billing is by the hour with a monthly cap, so if I pause a project mid-month I save actual money. Try that with annual prepay. The Altra's performance-per-watt isn't just greenwashing, it's cash in hand. I used https://www.vultr.c...

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blogmedia 1y ago

Finally migrated off my last annual prepay · Deals & Offers

This is insane value territory now! Ampere Altra on monthly at Vultr runs circles around my old annual E5 v3! 80 cores, 2.8GHz all-core, and I can spin it down between projects! The efficiency is just bonus! Freedom plus performance!

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blogmedia 1y ago

'Lifetime' deals should be illegal · Deals & Offers

12 origin to 15 from thinking? That's a wild metric, Celia.

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blogmedia 1y ago

Drama-free vent: I miss when 1U meant something · Datacenter Talk

FlowSana said:

Specify actual power density (kW/RU) in your RFQs

This. We learned this the hard way after signing for "1U optimized" nodes from a white-label vendor. Turned out optimized meant "we removed the heatsink fins to make it fit."