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Australian dollar's been volatile too. I split the difference -- six-monthly where offered. Vultr does it, not many others. Best of both worlds, worst of neither.

73% cache hit ratio? What metric even measures that on a watch

I did this. My "idle" homelab was pulling 340W. That's 25 EUR monthly in Cologne at current rates. Now I shut down the NAS overnight and wake it for backups. Saved 80W.

The ZFS pool doesn't mind. Parity check survivor, as they say.

From Sydney I traceroute to CarlosBilby Contabo Singapore, stars in middle. Traceroute to Contabo Sydney, clean. Same company, different path logic. The anycast scrubbing theory holds.

Sydney agreeing hard. We get this worse—APAC networks get "optimised" into Singapore or Tokyo hubs and suddenly Perth traffic goes via California.

I map my routes monthly. Simple script, cron job, diff the AS paths. Caught a provider migration bef...

I'm on the same RackNerd Bronze plan, different DC — Chicago instead of whatever jane's on. 847 days here. Two unplanned outages, both under 15 minutes, both at 3am US time which is prime admin window so probably maintenance they didn't announce.

Ticket response last month: 11 hours. Not 4-8.

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OVHcloud has London listed and it's real for some VPS tiers. Check the control panel before you pay. Their London location is real though.

InterServer only has Secaucus and LA datacentres yeah? So JokoNord you're hitting that from Jakarta, that's your latency problem right there. TLS 1.3 helps with the round trips but physics is physics.

I write doc already for my server-server, but the doc is from 2021 lah, the config already change, I not update, so the doc is fan fiction already, yes, my colleague read and ask why not work, I say go read source code lah