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'Enterprise-grade' on budget hosts is meaningless

General Discussion by salavi 14 replies 2.2K views
#11
salavi said:
Rack row, if possible

You are optimistic. I once asked a Bulgarian host for ASN path diversity and they sent a traceroute to 8.8.8.8. This is not network engineering. This is hope.

Back to IPv6: the Hurricane Electric tunnel is not just theater, it is performance tragedy. My latency to Sofia via HE tunnel: 180ms. Native: 12ms. They sold "enterprise dual-stack" and delivered "consumer nostalgia for the IPv6 beta era."

#12
salavi said:
Backup geography

GDPR Article 32 requires "ability to restore availability and access." It does not require honesty in marketing, unfortunately. But the German host with the padlock PDF: I forwarded to my Datenschutzbeauftragter. Their opinion: "enterprise" without TOM documentation is an unverifiable claim, potentially unfair competition under UWG §5.

I do not sue. I document. The accumulation is the weapon.

Neuland. Aber schnell.
8 #13
Fritz48 said:
Accumulation is the weapon

This. I have a private repo of AUP screenshots. When a host changes "enterprise" to "business-suitable" overnight, that diff is evidence. I do not name them publicly. I share with buyers who ask.

New observation: "enterprise NVMe" on one host was Intel 660p. QLC, no PLP. I checked power-loss protection with nvme id-ctrl and confirmed absence of ElberT. This is consumer cache, not enterprise endurance. Observable. Reproducible.

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
#14
pieter_rtm said:
I have a spreadsheet

I would buy that spreadsheet. I white-label nothing without hardware verification because my logo is what the customer sees when it fails. I have been to Nuremberg Contabo DC. I have seen the rows. I know which generations live where. This is why I charge more than the base price: I am selling verified reality, not adjective.

The gap between Contabo's 4 EUR and my resale is the gap between hope and audit trail.

#15
Ricardo77 said:
I have been to Nuremberg Contabo DC

This is the difference. Most of us audit from ssh and whois. You audit from presence. I respect this but cannot replicate it from my location.

Following this thread for the NVMe check command. Did not know about nvme id-ctrl for PLP verification.

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