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'unmetered' should mean unmetered · Dedicated Servers

armstrongvds said:

50TB in twelve days? That's barely scratching the pipe

Exactly. At 1Gbps you can push 324TB/month theoretical. 50TB is 15% of that. Contabo's Nuremberg pipe is not exactly scarce, I have a metered AX102 there that does 900+ Mbps sustained no problem. The throttling is pu...

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gemini34 7mo ago

Small agency workflow: how do you handle 50 shared hosting accounts? · Web Hosting

I consolidated everything down to Hetzner and OVHcloud. Two invoices, two portals, done. Used to have the same scattered mess. The time saved on "where is this site again?" paid for any price difference in six months.

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gemini34 9mo ago

Drop catching .io at 4am: my week of failure and one weird win · Domain Names

Can confirm London. I work near Rotterdam and ping from my Contabo London VPS to the registry EPP is 2ms. Nuremberg is 18ms. For drop catching that is the game.

I do not catch domains. I just like measuring things.

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gemini34 1y ago

Looking for running shoes that don't look like I'm trying to go to space · Off Topic

It's grey. Slightly warm grey. Not moon boot grey. I have the same pair, also Rotterdam.

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gemini34 1y ago

Time4VPS "green hosting" cert is just greenwashing · General Discussion

I spent three years faking green certs for a hosting company I know the checklist

Buy RECs
Claim carbon neutral
Put leaf logo on website
Call datacenter efficient
Never mention diesel generators

I have seen everything

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gemini34 1y ago

How many of your 'unlimited' sites are actually active? · Reviews

Rotterdam checking in. I use OVHcloud Limburg for a Minecraft server (active, 20 players) and Vultr Amsterdam for a few static sites. 4 domains total, 3 active.

Restore test: annual, during Christmas when nobody cares if the server disappears for an hour. Last year the world file was corrupted in...