craigdzir

Good thread. Same as it ever was, just new hardware to be suspicious of.

U kids with your statuspage.io templates and "incident retrospectives" that say nothing.

I saw a provider write "root cause: unexpected system behavior" :-) thats called a bug, friends. We used to say bug. "unexpected system behavior" is what you say when you r scared of lawyers.

Someone should ma...

15% fee plus forced escrow plus auto-renew? That sounds like fiction to me, Buenos

8-bit forever. At least "64K RAM" still means 65536 bytes. The old standards had integrity because the hardware enforced them.

Back in my day u cd get a real dedi 4 $50/mo and the price was the price :-)

Now its all "intro rates" and "renewal adjustments" and cloud this and api that

R u even saving money vs just buying a used opteron on ebay and running a VPS? Probably not tbh

I paid CloudCone $8/yr in 2021 and they hono...

Shared for a bakery is perfect. This thread's about people who need more and are being sold less. Different problem.

Illusion of point. I'm stealing that.

Settled as much as anything on a forum settles. The real answer is always "check it yourself and trust no brochure." Same as it was in '94.

That's the real tell. On genuine iron the flags are sparse. You see vmx, you're looking at a guest wondering why the host won't let it out.

Back in the BBS days we'd run `ident` on a remote and know exactly what board software sat behind it. No mysteries, no pretending a multi-node setup was a single dedicated line. These hosts think they've invented something new with their obfuscation.

Your disk-size trick is solid. Real iron ships w...