glasgow_tom

Hetzner's fine if you're in Europe. From Glasgow the latency to Falkenstein is better than to Amsterdam anyway. I just tar.gz my cs server configs and scp them to a mate's server in Manchester every night. Low tech works.

I learned more from broken hosts than stable ones tbh

Source engine had this with goldsrc fake players back in the day, tickrate 100 meant you could spot the bogus connect packets by TTL mismatch. Kids play valorant now, no communities left to DDoS anyway

So now I need two boxes to do what one did in 2003, plus a VPN, plus playbooks. Progress.

NPM's just a shiny wrapper for what we did manually on Contabo boxes that cost pocket change. Clicking buttons in a GUI ain't homelab, it's cosplay.

Back in the day you had 75 days and nobody cared. Now it's a feeding frenzy. I lost a clan domain to a parking page in 2019, still stings.

Hetzner configs? That's a new one on me. Back in '03 we pointed hostnames at IPs and prayed the box didn't melt. These kids with their reverse proxies and their application-level routing... my CS 1.6 server still runs on "if it responds, it responds." No cron job in the world fixes a 15 tickrate min...

Had the same issue with RackNerd, routing was never actually canadian.

Running CS 1.6 servers since 2003. I know waiting. Hetzner's auction servers are where patience actually pays. Snagged a SX134 for €34 that was "2-4 weeks" and arrived in 6 days. Their colo queue though? Never tried, probably never will.

Running game servers since 2003, latency is everything. My players feel 20 ms. They ragequit at 40. I use OVH now, their SLA is vague but at least the routes are consistent. Glasgow to Gravelines: 18 ms every time. I'll take predictable over promised.