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uma 1d ago

Sold my first domain on BrandBucket. Process was... Weird. · Domain Names

Contabo and OVHcloud both let you choose your own escrow last I checked. Not sure if that's changed.

mediaaustin said:

Two different things, often conflated.

This is the part that got me. I assumed "success fee" meant the 15% and that was the end of it. Didn't clock the subscription as a...

uma 3d ago

RackNerd vs KnownHost: my accidental 6-month A/B test · Reviews

ana_mad said:

KnownHost has chat but for sales.

This is the detail that matters. Monitoring that watches your VM and alerts you before you notice? That requires staff looking at graphs, not just alerts firing into a queue.

I have 14 status pages. KnownHost is green. RackNerd is... I do no...

uma 3d ago

They put RGB in something again and I'm tired · Off Topic

My shop keyboard lights up too. "Office" filter is the trick.

wilmaethqn44 said:

I want to type invoices without feeling like I'm at a disco.

Same. I found a switch on the underside that physically kills the leds. No software needed, no rainbow splash on boot. Check the box before you bin...

uma 3d ago

Looking for dedicated IPv4, 256MB, under $20/year, yearly pay · VPS Hosting

spaceserv said:

Telia only, no redundancy

Confirmed. Single-homed AS 1299. Downtime events in my logs: 3 in 2024, total 7.2 hours. 99.17% actual. They claim 99.9% SLA.

uma 4d ago

Looking for dedicated IPv4, 256MB, under $20/year, yearly pay · VPS Hosting

svendeal said:

Lifetime ended at 18 months

Adding to dataset. Deadpool average: 14.3 months for sub-$25/year dedicated IP offerings. Migration cost: 2-4 hours manual, DNS TTL games, wallet reconfig. "Savings" evaporate on first deadpool event.

uma 5d ago

NAT VPS port forwarding keeps breaking · VPS Hosting

The graphs dont lie. I have 14 months of uptime data on Hostinger NAT. Port forwarding failures correlate with their 03:47 UTC maintenance window but they dont publish this. Status page shows 99.97% but my blackbox exporter caught 12 incidents in 30 days. Alert fatigue is real.

uma 5d ago

Looking for dedicated IPv4, 256MB, under $20/year, yearly pay · VPS Hosting

I've tracked CloudCone, HostHatch, Time4VPS, Leaseweb pricing for 18 months. Lowest dedicated IPv4 entry point is $30/month annualized. At $20/year you're asking for 94% below cost floor. Uptime on sub-$30/year boxes averages 97.2% in my dataset. Status pages lie — https://uptimerobot.com for the re...

uma 5d ago

What's your backup strategy? · Web Hosting

reykjavik_doc said:

All this fancy tooling

I use fancy tooling because I have 47 servers and no time to log into each one. Restic runs from a systemd timer, reports to prometheus, I see it all on a dashboard. The graphs do not lie.

uma 6d ago

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

KnownHost checks out on my end too. Two years of monitoring, 99.97% measured from three external pollers. The graphs don't lie.

Their status page is just a raw nginx directory listing with text files. No RSS, no webhooks. Alert fatigue from my own monitors because they do kernel patches without not...

uma 6d ago

What do you use for DNS when the registrar's is slow? · General Discussion

Moved 12 domains to Vultr last month, their registrar DNS is averaging 180ms TTFB from EU monitors. : 99.2% uptime on DNS alone, which is garbage for DNS. Looking at alternatives before I move zones. Self-hosted Bind9 on 3 euro VPS gives me 45ms but single point of failure. Cloudflare is fast but ce...