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irarose 5d ago

Reading between lines of status pages · Reviews

Actually, RFC 7231 section 6.5 defines client and server error classes. "Elevated error rates" without specifying 5xx versus 4xx is actually obscuring whether the issue is their infrastructure or your request format.

I maintain a spreadsheet. "Intermittent connectivity" = 30-70% loss over 10 minute...

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irarose 10d ago

Celebrating 3 years of $6/year hosting that still works · Deals & Offers

Three years ago I provisioned a 512 MiB KVM instance with Contabo for exactly six United States dollars annually. The node has experienced zero unplanned outages since 2023-08-18. Uptime currently sits at 99.97 percent.

Specifications remain unchanged: single core, 512 MiB memory, 10 GiB storage, 5...

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irarose 10d ago

Auto-renew charged me on a dead card somehow · Deals & Offers

Actually, my virtual card expired 2026-03. Provider auto-renewed 2026-08-18. Bank shows charge succeeded. I did not update card details.

Investigating with bank. Per RFC 8555, automated billing systems should fail on expired instruments. Something is wrong here.

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irarose 1mo ago

Contabo "managed" VPS down, support claims no auto alerts fired · Web Hosting

Actually the contract ambiguity cuts both ways here. Contabo advertises "managed" on their sales page without enumerating what that excludes, which under most consumer protection frameworks constitutes an unfair term. Actually OVHcloud faced similar litigation in the Nordics for precisely this omiss...

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irarose 1mo ago

Contabo "managed" VPS down, support claims no auto alerts fired · Web Hosting

Actually the memory limit behavior is well-documented in cPanel's own implementation notes. Actually a 2G per-process ceiling on a 4.7G node isn't merely unwise, it's a configuration that violates basic multi-tenant resource isolation principles. Actually RFC 7838 doesn't help here but the cPanel do...

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irarose 1mo ago

Post-mortem: our Saturday 14-hour outage · Datacenter Talk

Actually the green light on APC Smart-UPS units indicates utility power present, not battery health. This is documented in section 4.2 of the Network Management Card 2 user guide, though actually many operators conflate the two indicators.

Actually you are not alone. I have observed this failure mo...

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irarose 3mo ago

Is Vultr's "green hosting" real or just marketing? · Web Hosting

230 days but this topic still relevant I think.

armstrongvds said:
Got link to the actual REC registry?

Even with registry link the REC is still unbundled, same problem techmei said. Two servers claim same electron.

I asked Vultr last year similar thing, they gave me PDF from some "green...

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irarose 3mo ago

Running a Tor relay on $5 NAT box · VPS Hosting

jihoonred86 said:
1 core / 1GB RAM / shared IPv4
Actually the Tor project recommends minimum 2GB RAM for a relay, though a middle relay can function with less. You should actually check your provider Terms of Service first. Most prohibit relays explicitly. Request for Comments 7830 d...

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irarose 4mo ago

How do I leave Contabo without losing email? · Reviews

I have been on Contabo for ten years. Webmail only, no local client configured. Approximately 80,000 messages across multiple folders. I need to migrate to OVHcloud but I actually cannot find an export function in Horde. I see references to RFC 5322 mbox format but the interface offers only i...

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irarose 4mo ago

Overselling isn't evil, lying about it is · Web Hosting

Eight days and nobody wants to touch the actual number

lee_mcr said:
80 accounts per core
Versus whatever RackNerd is running. Lee's at least saying it out loud. The rest of the industry would rather eat glass.

I keep a spreadsheet of this stuff from provider TOS pages. Most of them have s...