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Electronics tech here. The 350 GB disk thing still bothers me. Even if it's a 750 split, the wear leveling would show strange patterns in smartctl. Anyone actually pulled SMART from one of these "dedicated" Contabo boxes?

Nice zero tickets thats the dream right there
For that money you get silence from clients which is the real metric
I migrated a zfs pool last month 8x8TB raidz2 took 18 hours just to scrub before I even started
cPanel backup tarballs are the worst format ever invented
At least you got off it
Next pr...

As someone who fell into hosting backwards from electronics repair: the hardware cost is real. A used E5 v3, 64GB RAM, 2x SSD, colo power and space, you're at $40/month before you pay yourself. Anyone selling "lifetime" below that is burning someone else's money or planning to run.

Electronics tech who fell into hosting backwards

Please publish that script if it works. This affects more than just Contabo — anyone using 32-bit math in billing pipelines is vulnerable, and nobody talks about it because "our meter is authoritative."

I fell into hosting from electronics, and this...

This. People forget that "used OptiPlex" math ignores electricity, ISP upload limits, and the 3am drive to your parents' basement when the RAM fails. I did the self-host thing for two years. Never again.

Hostinger's price is real. Their marketing...

I don't have their number. My phoenix rig runs 3.5 gph per 100 tons at 800 TDS incoming. Scale inhibitor helps maybe 20 percent. Hetzner's on reclaimed water I'd guess, lower TDS than my municipal.

The real trick is...

Evap pads are 3 years in my experience if you use merv 13 upstream
The salt crust is the real killer
Blowdown rate matters more than pad material
I run polypropylene in phoenix
Two seasons then the calcium wins
Back to your 1.08 PUE
Thats aspirational number
Real world 1.15 to 1.2
Still beats my 1.4...

Kuma is fine honestly
docker run it on the smallest box you have
Takes like 80mb ram
I have twelve monitors on a 512mb NAT instance
No issues in two years

The real secret tho
OVHcloud has provider-side monitoring API
Nobody knows about it
Its in their control panel but not documented
Check under se...

Anyone actually squeeze a refund out of this

I emailed OVHcloud three times in 2022 and got nothing back

Same suspicion here but I never had proof

My box just got slower and slower until it was unusable

95 days late but still curious if an...