paolo62 (Member) — HostPeers

Funny: I typo'd my SSH port and locked myself out for 6 hours · General Discussion

I typo'd my router's lan ip once. Set it to 192.168.2.255. Took me two hours to figure out why nothing could get a dhcp lease. Ramen was cold by the time I fixed it.

paolo62 1mo ago

They lost my domain renewal somehow · Reviews

Not work? I go to whois but not see the codes? Is there better way to monitor this? I have 4 domains with Hostinger? This is making me nervous?

paolo62 1mo ago

What do you use for visualizing your BGP topology when you're poor? · Networking

Did anyone actually solve this?

tallinnying said:

At 3am I wrote this

I keep coming back to this thread because your 3am line-with-boxes is basically where I landed too. Except I used mermaid-cli in a git hook so it regenerates when I push config. Still janky. Has anyone tried bullying one...

paolo62 2mo ago

Is managed WordPress hosting worth 5x the price? Honest takes only · Web Hosting

Ramen-funded homelab here. I run everything on a $5 Vultr in Singapore and self-host WordPress for my aunt's catering business. She pays me in lumpia, not dollars.

The math only works because I'm cheap labor with no SLA. If I get hit by a jeepney, her site is down until someone else figures out my...

paolo62 9mo ago

Contabo completely vanished—anyone got a ping? · Web Hosting

My Contabo VPS in Singapore is pinging 230ms from here. Usually 35. Something's choked upstream, not dead. Traceroute dies at Telia in Frankfurt.

paolo62 11mo ago

YABS on 50 different $10/year plans, the variance is absurd · VPS Hosting

Ramen-funded so I buy annual. RackNerd LA was great in 2022, renewed 2023, new node, disk halved. No refund on annual. Lesson learned.