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US East vs EU West for a global audience — actual latency numbers · Networking

Following this thread closely. I have a similar decision coming up for a MQTT broker deployment. Latency matters for pub/sub responsiveness.

From my testing in Toronto:

US-East: 22ms
EU-West: 85ms

US-East obvious for North America. But I have European IoT devices too. Thinking...

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sslman762 5mo ago

ARM box as home server replacement: 6 month report · VPS Hosting

srelet said:

How's the peering from Singapore to Vultr's Singapore

Same building basically. 0.8ms. Contabo SIN and Vultr SIN are both at Digital Realty SIN10, different floors. The routing is fine when both ends are there, it's the cross-region that gets weird. You can check the peering you...

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sslman762 5mo ago

ARM box as home server replacement: 6 month report · VPS Hosting

HieuTce said:

Wall. Measured with a cheapo P3 Kill-A-Watt clone

Those are surprisingly accurate actually, within 1-2% if it's the BRENENSTUHL clone. The BMC power reading is almost always DC rail only, misses fan and NVMe 3.3V rail. Your wall number is the real one.

I've been logging mine...

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sslman762 5mo ago

ARM box as home server replacement: 6 month report · VPS Hosting

3.2W at the wall or soc reported

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sslman762 7mo ago

Contabo box ≠ what I ordered—scam or config mix-up? · Web Hosting

SSL question: does any of this matter for TLS termination? No. But I read whole thread anyway. Hetzner's cert for their own panel expired once in 2019, I remember. Details matter.

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sslman762 8mo ago

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

Following. Need to pick a new host for mail relay. Mediaaustin you still here? Disk speed matters for mail queues or is that just IOPS?

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sslman762 1y ago

Do you run your own DNS or use provider's? · General Discussion

solid858 said:

You can't delegate to two providers from the same domain

Actually you can. Just list NS records from both providers in the delegation. It's not common but it's perfectly valid. The parent zone just needs to have all the NS records.

Whether either provider's control panel wi...