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joshcrane 15h ago

Support quality dropped after acquisition, anyone notice? · General Discussion

This thread saved me from renewing. Was about to click 12-month on Contabo Storage VPS, now looking at HostHatch Zurich instead. Same price band, better snapshot policy.

Any reason not to? I need EU data residency but not necessarily German DC.

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joshcrane 7mo ago

Contabo Stiffed Me on the Money-Back Deal · Web Hosting

Bro you smart putting this here for everyone to see. These companies think we quiet but we not bro.

In turkey we learn fast which hosts play games with money. Contabo lost my trust forever now.

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joshcrane 1y ago

Another submarine cable cut near Egypt · Networking

NordKing said:
You get what you pay for

Not sure I agree. My KnownHost managed VPS at $35 is routing fine because they activated backup paths, per admin above. The price point is midrange and the response was solid. It is more about provider engineering than about how much you pay. A cheap...

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joshcrane 1y ago

128MB RAM still viable in 2024? · VPS Hosting

Manish24 said:
Which block storage tier?

None. Local only. The block storage mounts are too heavy for 64MB — you're right, the kernel cache pressure kills it. I rsync to a Backblaze B2 bucket weekly from a bigger box, keep the slice lean.

Block storage on sub-256MB is a trap.

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joshcrane 1y ago

128MB RAM still viable in 2024? · VPS Hosting

128MB for WireGuard is luxury. I run dnscrypt-proxy + unbound on a 64MB BuyVM slice, Las Vegas. Blocklist refresh is the only time it sweats — I cron that for 4AM and accept the 2-minute swap death.

$2/month. My coffee costs more per hour.

https://buyvm.net

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joshcrane 1y ago

How many of your 'unlimited' sites are actually active? · Reviews

Did anyone mention rsync.net? I use them for ZFS send of my Hetzner VPS. Not unlimited, not cheap, but I have tested restores and they work. That's worth more than 80 dead domains.

Active: 3 of 6. The other 3 are family sites I maintain out of guilt.