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ZFS scrubs are my benchmark. Resilver time after replacing a disk. Not applicable to VPS, which is why I lurk and do not post YABS.

For VPS I would want: time to compile FreeBSD kernel with -jN where N equals vCPU count. Repeatable, real, and immediately comparable across providers if everyone post...

313 days and still true

The ones who bought "unmetered" from Hetzner in '21 learned this the hard way. Their 95th percentile invoices showed up six months in. No warning, no grace. Just a line item that said "bandwidth reconciliation" and a...

ZFS send my node backups to Hetzner storage box. EUR 3.81 for 100GB. If you're already paying Hetzner that €3/month, storage box is separate product, no IP needed. Not a solution, just noting their pricing structure is weirder than people think.

More than enough. I'm running 128GB with 78TB allocated and plenty of headroom. Zfs arc will eat what you give it but it's adaptive. 64GB means maybe 32GB for arc, which is fine unless you're doing heavy random io.

My advice: proxmox, zfs for s...

That is a beautiful find, thank you for the legwork

I should add a section on emoji urgency — the ⏰⏰⏰ triple-threat seems to correlate with the longest-running "limited" windows

Has anyone checked if the timestamps in Hetzner's UTC claims actually resolve, or if...

They do not. I asked in 2022. "Enterprise grade Supermicro" was the reply. Which Supermicro? Which generation? Silence.

KnownHost told me "Dell PowerEdge" same year. Also useless. But at least they have staff who know what a...

@tinaworm Samsung PM883 is SATA. For that money you get used Intel P4510 NVMe off eBay with 3 DWPD and actual IOPS. HostHatch is fine if you hate yourself. My underrated pick: InterServer. They auction decommissioned HPE DL360 Gen10 from some german datacenter. I got 2x Xeon Gold 6134, 192GB RAM, 8x...

The live USB thing is not paranoid, it is baseline. If your normal workstation is compromised, changing passwords from it just gives the attacker the new password. Wendy did it right.

For the backup side: ZFS send to a separate pool on a different host, different provider, different continent. I re...

4TB HGST drives, RAIDZ2, auction servers from CloudCone. Specs:

• Xeon E5-2680v4
• 128GB DDR4 ECC
• 4x 4TB SATA
• $45/month fiat, no crypto discount

For that money you get what RackNerd probably uses:

- recycled dell r630
- samsung pm863a (read-intensive, low endurance)
- software raid or no raid

KnownHost maybe:
- supermicro with intel s4510
- hw raid or zfs mirror
- actual network redundancy

Specs matter. Ask both for chassis model. They wi...