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Ha, yeah

I never did get the rest of that three years back, obviously, and the "amazing deal" turned out to be me funding someone's exit...

Three acquisitions and the rate stuck — that's basically a unicorn at this point

I'm guessing you never changed your contact details or let a card lapse long enough to trigger a re-pricing? Most places I...

Ran an ISP for eleven years, saw this exact pattern kill more small operators than anything else. The economics of IPv4 reputation are brutal now.

Back in 2012 you could get clean space and maintain it with basic...

Tried it. Pain. Half the mobile networks in the US still do not do IPv6 properly. Your game server players will complain. Stick to dual-stack for anything user-facing.

So I noticed this weird pattern on my little site hosted over on Hetzner (nothing fancy just a static site with a contact form and some portfolio stuff for my side gig doing logos for local businesses) and the traffic spikes are absolutely bizarre because every single day at exactly 3am my ba...

Austin. In my ISP days we'd give colo customers smart hands and remote eyes. They could see their box. Anything less than that visibility is not dedicated, it's just expensive shared.

Ok so heres my hot take and I know people are gonna disagree but ive been running my homelab for like 7 years now (started with a dell r710 I got off ebay for $200, upgraded to r720xd then r730 and now ive got a proper rack with 3 servers and a switch and a pdu and everything) and in all that time i...

Of course you did.

You are stuck with high ports on the public side, that is the whole point of NAT VPS. What SNI does is let you run multiple HTTPS sites behind one port (like 30000) because the client sends the hostname in plaintext before encryption. But y...

Oh man I feel you on this one (and I have been there trust me) so what I do is I just pick a range and stick to it (like 15000-15019 for web stuff 15020-15039 for games etc etc) and I keep a text file (not a spreadsheet because who has time for formulas am I right) but the real trick is iptables rul...