zhang39

Has anyone tried Oracle Cloud free tier instead? Two AMD instances with public IPv4, no NAT nonsense. The catch is they can terminate you anytime but for 18 months I have been fine.

70% seems high

Hetzner had their own fire risk no? Falkenstein and Nuremberg both in Germany, not exactly spread out. I use them for compute but backups go to Wasabi eu-central-1 — https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage is what I used before.

Single region within EU is still s...

Did you ever get back into this box or did Contabo have to reimage it

I had something similar on a OVHcloud NAT plan years ago and their panel just showed "running" forever while the network was blackholed, had to open a ticket to get them to flip it back

Zhang39 here. I did RHCSA and LPIC-1 both. RHCSA was harder but more satisfying. LPIC-1 was broader but shallower. For hosting I use more of the LPIC-1 breadth daily. RHCSA depth only matters when I am on a RHEL-specific system.

If I could only keep one, LPIC-1 for hosting. RHCSA for enterprise.

The clicking drives are a you problem, not a NAS problem.