petegrid1990 5d ago
3 Years Stuck With Contabo – Here's What Actually Happened · Web Hosting
Same. GreenCloudVPS for light stuff, real auction hardware for heavy. The middle market is where the lies live.
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petegrid1990 5d ago
Same. GreenCloudVPS for light stuff, real auction hardware for heavy. The middle market is where the lies live.
petegrid1990 5d ago
NAT ipv4 every time no contest look I love the idea of ipv6 I really do but the reality is nothing works right without v4 not yet maybe in five years but right now my home isp does v6 half broken my phone tether drops v6 randomly my mums router doesnt even know what v6 is so if I need to fix somethi...
petegrid1990 18d ago
That's where it drifted, yes. The OP's three-year story became a general audit thread. Which is better than most forum drifts.
petegrid1990 24d ago
Not Contabo, but I pulled SMART from a GreenCloudVPS "storage" plan once. The virtual disk passed through enough that smartctl worked, but the model string was QEMU HARDDISK. Dead giveaway.
petegrid1990 25d ago
Harold its always the switch man always the switch I had this exact thing in 2019 with a netgear that cost me twelve bucks on craigslist corosync needs timing like a drummer needs a beat and cheap switches are dru...
petegrid1990 26d ago
The auction machines are real, I've had two. But their "cloud" line is just Proxmox with a nice jacket. The pricing makes sense once you understand that.
petegrid1990 27d ago
So Hetzner slaps "dedicated" on a KVM slice and calls it breakfast? That's the same playbook Contabo ran on you. I dug into a GreenCloudVPS node once after noticing the NIC counters were all virtio—no bare metal smells like that. Did you ever clock the CPU flags? Vmx or svm sitting pretty in /proc/c...
petegrid1990 28d ago
Wait so you ran `lscpu` or checked `/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name` and it spat back a KVM string? That's the kind of thing that should be in their pre-sales but of course it isn't. I had something similar with a "bare metal" offer from another shop years back, turned out to be Proxmox with extra st...
petegrid1990 1mo ago
The muted channel graveyard is too real. I have eleven.
Only eleven? I hit the 50-channel ceiling on my main workspace last year and had to spin up a second account just for deal alerts, which of course I also muted within a month
These days I just lean on a singl...
petegrid1990 1mo ago
I tried the bot thing once and it broke and I never fixed it and now I just have seventeen telegram channels muted and one that isnt and I check that one when I remember and somehow I still miss the good stuff every single time and my friend says I have a problem but I say the problem is the deals a...