manish_wagon

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Windows VPS activation failing with KMS error 0xC004F074 · VPS Hosting

Provider skimping on KMS infra because legacy IP licensing costs eat their margin. Seen this at three hosts this quarter. Quotes: $45/kvm for Windows SPLA, up 12% YoY.

manish_wagon 4mo ago

BGP session dropped after 48 hours—anyone else? · Networking

Carl said:

AS51167

I have a Contabo VPS in Singapore, same AS. No BGP but I ran persistent TCP streams for video ingest. They drop at 48 hours too. Not BGP-specific. Their "network stability feature" is a generic TCP session limit.

manish_wagon 9mo ago

10TB+ monthly—who's actually sustainable under $20? · VPS Hosting

Cloudflare will catch you. They have video product now, Stream. They want that money.

For sustainable, I run 8TB/month on Hetzner CPX21 (EUR 8.21) with KeyCDN in front. KeyCDN is pay-as-you-go, cheaper than Bunny for my mix, ~$35 at 8TB. 12TB would be ~$52.

KeyCDN has Singapore pop. Peering to Ind...