johnlite

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

Has anyone actually tried to migrate one of these ancient boxes to a new provider? I am staring at a 2020 Vultr instance (https://www.vultr.com/pricing/) and the thought of replicating the cron environment makes me tired. There is probably a .bash_history on there that is the only documentation of w...

johnlite 5mo ago

The 'certified datacenter' that was a converted garage · General Discussion

RizkyGun said:

How I am tell real from fake?

Real Tier III: minimum 99.982% uptime. 1.6 hours downtime per year allowed. N+1 everything. Concurrent maintainability. On-site fuel for 12 hours, refuel contract.

Fake Tier III: window unit, single UPS, clipart handshake, dreams.

Ask for site...

johnlite 6mo ago

The 'certified datacenter' that was a converted garage · General Discussion

DDoS mitigation angle: garage host = single upstream. No anycast. No scrubbing center. Attack hits 10 Gbps and everything collapses. Real Tier III has minimum 2 carriers, diverse paths, 99.982% uptime. This provider has window unit and dreams.

johnlite 1y ago

Mini-guide: automating backups when your provider's 'daily' means 'when we feel like it' · General Discussion

Debian stable or testing, and which restic build