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haloak 3mo ago

5-year anniversary of my first $5/year box, still running cron jobs · VPS Hosting

I run actual production on Vultr in Madrid and I am torn reading this. On one hand, yes, the platform is stable. On the other hand, the idea of a 2022 Ubuntu install with no patches makes my incident-response lizard brain scream. Contained risk or not, unpatched cron is still a pivot point if someth...

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haloak 4mo ago

How many active servers do you actually maintain? · General Discussion

nate_pad said:
How do I check?

sudo ufw status

Or if you are on Debian with no ufw, sudo iptables -L

If you see mostly ACCEPT rules and no DROP at the end, you are naked. Fix that before the nephew invites friends.

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haloak 6mo ago

I became a sysadmin because of this forum · General Discussion

GroupStockholm said:
Procurement problem, not a technical one

Correct. I asked for ARM in Barcelona, finance asked for three quotes from different vendors. There are two ARM server vendors in Europe with stock. We're still on x86 because the paperwork takes longer than the hardware lifecyc...