josh2002

What was the attack size on HostHatch exactly? They never say

Has anyone used the serial crash cart approach with a modern board? My SuperMicro has a COM header but no actual DB9. Bought a header-to-DB9 cable, never got BIOS over serial working. Always falls back to IPMI SOL which needs the BMC.

Josh2002 here. I did the same test with Lighttpd instead of nginx. Saved maybe 5MB. Not enough to matter. The database is the bottleneck.

Same here. Annual max. Learned from a "lifetime" VPN that lasted 14 months.

This thread made me check my current draw. Two "1U" servers, supposed to be 800W each. Actual: 1.1kW and 1.3kW. No wonder my APC beeps at me.

This thread made me check. 14 hosts in 5 years, but 9 of those were free tiers or trial credits. Oracle Cloud, AWS free tier, GCP credits, Azure student. I wasn't chasing deals, I was chasing zero cost.

The problem: every free tier has hidden hooks. Egress pricing, API call limits, sudden "upgrade...