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lee_mcr 1d ago

OVHcloud 5-year prepaid hosting: performance collapsed, support gone · Deals & Offers

447 days, figured this thread was dead but the xmrig detail from

tifiucem said:
Bro coming back to this thread after almost a year Did you ever try chargeback.

Has anyone actually gotten OVHcloud to acknowledge the miner issue in writing? My friend just nuked his instance and moved on, nev...

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lee_mcr 2d ago

What to do when your cheap IP gets blacklisted by Microsoft · General Discussion

olespete said:
Swaks

Swaks is great but be careful running this from work machines. A lot of corporate firewalls flag outbound port 25 as suspicious and you might end up explaining to IT why you're "sending spam."

For a safer test, use mail-tester.com instead. Sends through their i...

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lee_mcr 5d ago

Who is the most underrated provider you have actually used? · General Discussion

Right then

@nate_pad not dumb at all mate, IPMI lets you cry at a black screen when your kernel panics at 3am. Proper fun.

My underrated: Hostinger. We are small. We are slow on feature releases. Our control panel looks like a spreadsheet had a baby with a railway timetable. But tickets answered b...

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lee_mcr 5d ago

Windows Server 2022 eval converted to licensed—my KMS anxiety · VPS Hosting

Right then, full disclosure lads - we do the SPLA thing. £16/month, Windows Server standard. Not trying to flog it, just saying it's proper legit and exists. Most folks don't ask because they assume it's some enterprise-only racket. It's not. Cheapest above-board Windows you'll find, and you can act...

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lee_mcr 6d ago

Finally automated my backups off their server · Reviews

Right then, finally did it. Automated my backups off Hostinger's box after that fun incident where their "daily snapshot" turned out to be a monthly snapshot of someone else's server entirely. Cheers lads.

Wrote a proper bash script that rsyncs everything to my OVHcloud VPS at 3am, checks hashes, p...

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lee_mcr 9d ago

Looking for european budget host with decent DDoS protection · Reviews

I am using driftnode amsterdam now, is it? They go go upgrade the protection in march I am thinking, is it? No big announcement, just the network team do the thing. I check check my logs, one small attack in june, site stay up. Not big attack though, is it? 20gbps I do not know. I am coming back wit...

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lee_mcr 9d ago

The DNS propagation I didn't plan for · Reviews

JokoNord said:
The registry itself caches nameserver glue for 24 hours minimum

This is the piece most migration guides miss. They focus on recursive resolver caches and forget about registry-level glue and parent zone TTLs. For .com/.net the parent TTL on NS records is 48 hours by default...