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mediaaustin 2d ago

OVHcloud suspended me for using their "unlimited" plan · General Discussion

frankfurt_ops said:
The marketingpage and the contract are indeed two different documents, this is correct

Which is exactly my point about mandatory disclosure. If the signup flow showed the actual throttle thresholds alongside the marketing claims, we'd have informed consent instead of go...

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mediaaustin 2d ago

The $50 rack I regret · General Discussion

Did this ever get sorted or is that rack still on rake duty three years later

I almost pulled the same move with a Contabo 24U but measured the stairwell landing instead of the turn. Barely caught it in time.

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mediaaustin 4d ago

OVHcloud suspended me for using their "unlimited" plan · General Discussion

Guru deutschlag is right but that distinction is exactly the problem. The marketing page is what converts, the contract is what governs, and nobody reads the contract until they're suspended.

Elena said:
Elena got suspended on OVHcloud for resource abuse
This is the pattern — sell unlimited...

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mediaaustin 5d ago

The $50 rack I regret · General Discussion

A lot of older houses have surprisingly generous rough openings behind that quarter-round. Might give you the 4cm you need without touching the hinges. I know a guy who got a full 48U down a 76cm stairwell that way. Took him two hours with a pry bar and patience, but the rack lived in that basement...

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mediaaustin 5d ago

1GB 'budget' now costs what 4GB did in 2019: are we the suckers? · VPS Hosting

"grandfathered" is just deferred churn.

For what it's worth, I've seen three providers "honor" legacy plans by silently degrading network priority, moving nodes to oversold clusters, or—my favorite—requiring annual payment with 30-day renewal windows sent to spam folders.

SPF won't save you here....

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mediaaustin 5d ago

Paying with crypto for three years straight · General Discussion

The suspicion is not arbitrary. For what it is worth, crypto payments correlate heavily with abuse in deliverability data; IP ranges from pseudonymous hosts dominate blocklists. Providers are not profiling you personally; they are managing reputation risk. SPF and DKIM alignment failures spike in th...

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mediaaustin 5d ago

Post your worst IP reputation scores — the dirty IP thread · General Discussion

olespete said:
MXToolbox pulls from Return Path/Sender Score data

Small correction: MXToolbox shows a composite, not pure Sender Score. The 0-100 there blends multiple sources including their own DNSBL aggregation and sometimes Cisco Talos data depending on what API tier they're hitting th...