carlos2

Still around, actually. They finally processed the refund may 8 but only after my bank sent the provisional credit. Whole thing made me paranoid so I moved the VPS to HostHatch same week.

Svendeal has it right. Been through this loop. Tried to pay HostHatch via CoinPayments once, XMR path existed but minimum was $50 deposit. Killed the yearly cheap angle entirely.

Carlos2 in Medellín. Self-custody everything including domain bills. I use Gandi for one domain, €16 as fanboy say. I use Njalla for another, $15. Both flat. Both boring. I like boring.

Njalla is privacy-focused, they own domain for you technically. Not for everyone. But price is flat.

Self-custody includes not being locked to one host. I run two providers now, the cheap one for storage and Hetzner for anything that needs to be reachable.

Hetzner wants passport now for new accounts, no? At least EU ones. BuyVM and a couple others are the last easy doors

Oracle free tier requires card on file. KYC by another name. Appreciate thought though.

Auction is different. Stock moves slow, prices drift. Flash sales are binary: available or not, usually gone in minutes. The attention required is not comparable.

I appreciate the kind words. I do not miss the labor. If someone wan...

Same pattern. My monitoring catches it every Tuesday and Thursday around 02:00 UTC. Like clockwork. Backup window from another tenant? Who knows. They do not answer.

I moved my billing VM off RackNerd last month. Kept a $1.29 NAT box for expe...

Same exact throttling pattern on RackNerd here

Appreciate the data Marek. Route stability > latency for this use case. XMR node just needs to stay reachable. Still hunting for crypto-friendly provider at this price but might need to double budget.