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My 'temporary' Kimsufi outlived 3 'production' providers

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danfra

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7 #1

2016: needed a cheap French box for a weekend project. €5/month, no SLA, "consumer grade." Figured it would die in 6 months.

Since then I've cycled through three "enterprise" dedis at Contabo, OVHcloud, and Vultr. All dead or migrated away.

The Kimsufi? Still billing. Still routing. 0.3% packet loss in last 90 days. No DDoS protection beyond basic 480 Gbps VAC filtering, but it's never needed more.

Current uptime: 847 days since last reboot. Debian 9→11→12 dist-upgrades over SSH, zero issues.

Anyone else running "temporary" servers that became infrastructure?

mitigated 800Gbps before breakfast
PU

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#2

Temporary becomes permanent | cat budget | grep cheap | sort -u | wc -l | the answer is always one more pipe | your kimsufi is the stdin | providers are stderr | redirect to /dev/null | perkele

pablowild

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#3

¡¿847 days is very impressive, no?! Jajaja my "temporary" box from 2018 is still running also... wait, no, let me think...

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Ok reposting: I have one from 2019, very stable, is very good deal. But 7 years? ¿¡7 years!?

Jajaja the french infrastructure is very solid, no? Vut I always confuse their network with belgium, same thing maybe

FR

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2 #4

My "temporary" RackNerd VPS from 2020 is still running my personal wiki. Forgot it existed until the yearly invoice hit last month.

MA

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#5

Enough OVH praise. Thread's becoming a fan club. Discuss specific server specs or move to providers section.

JO

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#6

Pero super stable naman. 4 years na sakin, hindi pa nagrereboot. Mas mabilis pa yung network kesa sa Hetzner ko na €50/month lol

AZ

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#7

My kimsufi from 2017 still routes, never needed the "enterprise" filter

ZE

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#8

84 days or 84 months? The cutoff is suspicious

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