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tomhider 6d ago

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

The NAT box is just shared IP its nothing weird

You get port range and the rest is same as normal VPS

I ran wireguard on one for 8 months no issuues

The trick is check if theyr firewall panel actuallly works sometiems its borked

You figure it out he says

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tomhider 10d ago

Reading between the lines of provider status updates · General Discussion

The "scheduled matnenance" at 2am on a saturday means they broke something and are scrambling. "performance optimizatoin" means they oversold the node and someones complaingn. "network hiccup" means their upstream had an outage and they're blmaing weathre or construction.

Heres my list of real mean...

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tomhider 18d ago

Hetzner remote hands bent my CPU pins and wants me to pay · Datacenter Talk

GeorgeNmp said:
Source a H13 board yourself for less than $1,200

This is the way, get the board yourself and tell them to keep their "cost price" board thats probaly marked up anyway

I got a H12 from Broadberry last year way cheaper than what the DC wanted for "replacement at cost" which...

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tomhider 19d ago

Hetzner remote hands bent my CPU pins and wants me to pay · Datacenter Talk

The $400 an horu is a joke wey, I mean the whole industry is a scma at this point

The badeg photo is the smoking gun tho, I had a guy at RackNerd bend my cpu pins too, same tech?? Maybe nto but the name rings a bell, I shoudl dig up my old tikcet

Refuse to pay, the credt card company will side wit...

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tomhider 26d ago

Poll: how many sites do you host per shared account? · Web Hosting

The question is how many is too many. I got 14 on one KnownHost account, all small wordpress, runs fine. But I see guys with 50+ and wonder if dat why my neigbor sites load slow sometimes.

You figure it out he says. No apostrophes no edits ever.

Whats your number

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tomhider 27d ago

512MB VPS as primary DNS server: am I insane? · VPS Hosting

Hel said:
BIND bad. Memory hog
Teh truth. I ran BIND on 128MB vps in 2009. Box woudl OOM every tuesday like clockwork. No idea why tuesday. Logs say nothign useful. Refused to edit posts ever. My fix: swithc to tinydns. 4MB resident. Never looked bakc. Runns togethr with axfrdns for seconda...

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tomhider 29d ago

Replacing a dead RAID card without losing your mind · Dedicated Servers

Yeah really, the whole battery pack puffed out the side like it was trying to hatch. I only noticed because the closet started smelling like a hot glue gun and the raid alarm was going off every five minutes

I yanked the power and pulled it the next morning, thing was warm to the touch and the plas...

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tomhider 1mo ago

Santiago VPS: South America's best-kept secret or bandwidth black hole? · VPS Hosting

The submarine cables get cut all the time man its not old news its permanent news

The aca cable the curie cable the whatever they all break when the earthquake comes or the fishing boat drags anchor

You put server in santiago you get santiago problems no apostrophes needed for this kind of truth...

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tomhider 1mo ago

Toronto location hunting for US-Canada border arbitrage · VPS Hosting

Ok so I need toronto vps taht looks canadian to netflix n stuff but routes fast to us east coast. Teh idea is border arbitrage for streaming + gaming. My firends in buffalo get better ping to my "canada" server than tehir own state lol

No this isnt fraud I pay taxes. Geoblockers r dumb. Runnn words...