realolly (Member) — HostPeers

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realolly 5d ago

Running a production site on a NAT IPv4 box · General Discussion

Peering

V4 nat: cgnat range, pain
V6: native, clean, tier-1
BGP not possible, obviously
Rt via cloudflare: works until it doesnt
Fw: need outbound tracking, stateful

Transit for anything serious

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realolly 4mo ago

Mini-guide: What actually happens day-by-day when a domain expires. · Domain Names

Did anyone mention if Google Domains is different? I heard they give more grace days.

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realolly 5mo ago

Poll: what's the longest you've chased a $5 overcharge? · General Discussion

We generally find it's not worth the operational overhead beyond one follow-up email. In our experience, the time cost exceeds the recovery for anything under ten dollars. Sam

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realolly 6mo ago

Would you hire someone whose homelab is all free tiers? · General Discussion

Elena says skills are what matter and elena has hired three people with free tier homelabs and they all outperformed the people with expensive gear elena does not care what you pay elena cares what you can do

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realolly 10mo ago

What do you use for cross-connect documentation that stays accurate? · Datacenter Talk

Following.

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realolly 1y ago

I typo'd a firewall rule and blocked the entire country · General Discussion

Peering

Cfg typo /8 instead of /32
BGP still up tho
V4 table: oops
V6: not affected, tier-1 move

Rt to coffee shop, laptop, usb tether
Fw from outside, fixed in 20min

Transit provider that day

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realolly 1y ago

Time4VPS "green hosting" cert is just greenwashing · General Discussion

Edge. Pop closer to user, origin happier, cache hit on sustainability claims. It's 12 now for most providers' actual renewable percentage. Miss when they fake it. Real green pops exist but you have to dig past the marketing origin.