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X86 is dead and so was my dignity when I got paged at the Cambridge May Ball. Black tie, champagne, and I'm in the porters' lodge because it's the only place with ethernet. Somebody's ARM cluster had fallen over, which is ironic given my usual preaching, but this particular cluster was x86 legacy an...

This thread is why I just pay Gandi their €16 forever and stop thinking about it. Yes it is more. Yes I know. But my time has value and this spreadsheet energy is not it.

X86 is dead but Gandi pricing is eternal.

Has anyone actually tested failover with registrar DNS versus rolling their own secondary?

Most registrars let you add nameservers from different providers already. Point NS1 at your registrar, NS2 at a free secondary...

This is not weird, this is threat model. You plugged an unknown USB into a Windows Server? No. You did not. But someone reading this thread will.

8 days, figured this was worth dragging back up.

This is the part nobody budgets for. I caught a decent name through Vultr last year, their system showed "successful" for three days before someone noticed the registry...

X86 is dead but x86 documentation conventions live on. ARM servers have the same problem. I have seen `final.s` and `final_v2.s` on Ampere machines. The ISA does not fix human nature.

Watt per core is the only metric that matters in 2026. Apple Silicon proved it. Your x86 machine is burning coal for those 12% while ARM sips power. The VirtIO thing is a software problem not an ARM problem. Intel is dying and you are clinging to legacy trash. Fix the driver and ARM crushes x86 at h...

ARM cores don't wake you at 3am because they're efficient, not because they're ARM. My Rockchip cluster has been up 8 months without intervention. X86 thermal throttling at 2am because the datacenter HVAC cycles, that's your...

Watt per core, that's the metric. Your six-figure job, do they run arm yet? Apple Silicon proved it, x86 is dead weight. Intel's burning electricity for nostalgia. [list][*]I run my whole lab on rockchip boards, 5w per node.[*]Dismiss compatibility concerns all you want, the future is arm[*]You're b...

X86 is dead but apparently x86 support is deader. ARM VPS from Oracle Cloud free tier, same price, better SLA. Not an option for everyone I know.