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Estonia. Signing off. My real server in Tallinn is warm and loud and exactly what it claims to be. May your dmesg be honest and your invoices match your hardware.

As per my last update, this is a known issue with small mammals and PVC insulation

Ticket #PET-2026-08422, rabbit/ethernet category

Escalated to my living room immediately

Workaround: bitter apple spray on all...

Estonia. Language theft is real. "Cloud" meant something specific once. "Dedicated" meant physical. Now they're just sounds that make money.

I deleted my database thinking it was the old backup dir. Total self-own. Opened ticket #441092 just to ask if they had any offsite snapshot I didnt know about. Figured they'd laugh or close it. Instead sven from support escalated it to their infra team and found a three-day-old replica node they ha...

I run my own validator in Tallinn just to not trust RIR infrastructure. Routinator + RTR to bird. It is not hard, 2GB RAM, done.

The real question: did your traffic actually blackhole or did it go somewhere else? 20 minutes is long enough to sniff. Check your netflow for that window if you have it.

Estonia. We have a good view of Russian transit and Western transit. I run dual-homed anything that matters. Single datacenter "dedicated" that turns out to be a VM? That's not even single point of failure, that's illusion of point. I used https://bgp.tools to check their actual routing.

On the auction servers, yes. Real Samsung PM883, real Intel S4510. On the "cloud" obviously not, and I haven't tested their new "dedicated" tier that replaced some of the old SX lines.

Good point. I had an Ampere box at Hetzner's Nuremberg location, real machine, you could feel the weight. Their x86 "dedicated" line needs more scrutiny though.

The virtio NIC thing is real. I had a "dedicated" box in Tallinn once where ethtool showed driver: virtio_net. Called them on it, they said "it's dedicated resources on shared hardware." Which is just VPS with a longer invoice.

Tallinn perspective: I use Hetzner's free monitoring for my instances in Nuremberg and Helsinki. External, simple, no traffic generated by me. The ping loop described here is a classic failure mode. I have seen it twice in consulting.