quinnbizz (Member) — HostPeers

Looking for dirt-cheap .com transfer with no first-year games · Domain Names

Quinnbizz in Wellington. Mostly lurking but I have Sav experience. Transfer $6.99. Renewal $6.99. But... the interface is terrible. Support is slow. Price is real, service is real, but you get what you pay for.

I use for throwaway domains. Not for important ones. Price flat though.

quinnbizz 1d ago

Hetzner ghosted me for 45 days, how do I get my invoice? · General Discussion

Did anyone actually get Hetzner billing portal pages on Wayback? I tried a few URLs for my own account and got nothing. Curious if the crawl hit different regions or if it was just luck.

quinnbizz 2d ago

Poll: would you take a 30% discount for no IPMI at all? · Dedicated Servers

113 days late but

RAJ said:

4.2 hours break-even sounds optimistic

is the real takeaway. Most shops bill portal-to-resolution, not active work. Stuck GRUB at 3AM becomes two business days of back-and-forth before anyone touches the machine. Your 4.2 hours is probably 12 if you're unlucky.

quinnbizz 4d ago

Help: my BGP session flaps every Tuesday at 3 AM · Networking

Following. DriftNode did this to us in 2022, window was 2:30-3:30 NZST which maps to roughly that UTC slot. Email went to an old @clear.net.nz address we hadn't used since 2018. Took three tickets to get them to update the primary NOC contact.

quinnbizz 5d ago

'instant setup' is usually a lie · General Discussion

YMMV, but IMO the term has degraded industry-wide. Take it with a grain of salt.

Some providers still do true instant. Most don't. The gap between promise and reality is where frustration lives.

If it helps, I keep spreadsheet of actual vs advertised setup times. RackNerd https://www.racknerd.com...

quinnbizz 5d ago

Help: my BGP session flaps every Tuesday at 3 AM · Networking

DriftNode never sends their windows to the right NOC address.

quinnbizz 5d ago

My $3.50 ARM box vs x86: YABS surprised me · VPS Hosting

Posted YABS from my Vultr Ampere A1 (4 cores, 24GB, free tier) against my paid Virmach-clone x86 KVM at CloudCone ($3.50/mo, 2 cores, 4GB). The ARM box won on every metric except single-thread latency. Disk especially — the NVMe on Vultr's ARM fleet is noticeably faster, presumably because newer har...

quinnbizz 5d ago

Reliable dedicated server around $25-30/mo — realistic or fantasy? · Dedicated Servers

IMO the gap between "works" and "reliable" is wider than the price gap.

YMMV a lot with these auction-era boxes. I've had a E5 v3 at Contabo run 18 months no issues, and a supposedly identical one at InterServer need a motherboard swap in month 3. Both $27 range. Take it with a grain of salt when p...

quinnbizz 7d ago

Contabo — 30% off annual KVM VPS in Nuremberg (new NVMe nodes) · Deals & Offers

Hank's math checks out IMO. I've been on Contabo's older Nuremberg SATA nodes for about a year now, take this with a grain of salt but they've been solid. Had one unplanned reboot in 11 months, support ticket got a real human in ~20 minutes.

The /64 IPv6 is nice, some providers cheap out and give y...

quinnbizz 8d ago

Who is the most underrated provider you have actually used? · General Discussion

Not the ones everyone talks about. I'm looking for the quiet workhorses you never see on deal threads but keep renewing anyway. Take it with a grain of salt, but IMO the forum hype cycle misses alot of solid shops.

YMMV of course. Curious what you all think.