Following a successful launch of Budget Xeon VPS offerings in Chicago alongside Ryzen 5950X VPS offerings in Eygelshoven, our team has expanded our lineup of offerings to encompass Ryzen 7000 Series in new US locations alongside an expansion to the current lineup of Virtual Private Servers offered in Eygelshoven.

In comparison to our prior best VPS offering, the Ryzen 5950X , the generation jump has yielded some impressive results on performance benchmarks. Here's the YABS on the 7900 in Los Angeles: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1638160

We wanted to use this thread in order to keep you up to date with our newest developments and get some feedback for our next features!

I used to like Google and their products but when they repeatedly just drops entire productlines like this it makes it a bit risky to use them for anything even close to enterprise stuff.

This thread is being created for full transparency and to keep the community up to date with what we're working on.

As of today all UK NAT VPS' on the following nodes:

• uk-nat-vps-1
• uk-nat-vps-2
• uk-nat-vps-3
• uk-nat-vps-4

have been migrated to the Micronode panel.

Does this have any impact on my service?

All users have been migrated and access to the Micronode panel can be found under Additional Information from within the billing platform.

The panel provides the same basic functionality as SolusVM although the primary missing feature is bandwidth monitoring. This is something we are working on however as of right now servers will still be suspended on bandwidth overuse, we will attempt to inform users before their bandwidth gets close to running out.

Everyone will be given the chance to move to a node with unmetered bandwidth if this is a concern although most users never get close to their bandwidth cap.

Why do migrated hosts show under legacy devices?

We consider these nodes our legacy nodes down to the age of them, low specifications and the fact that they were provisioned on SolusVM which we have now moved away from. There are no immediate plans to retire these nodes although they will not last forever and we can only support them for so long. When the time does come to retire these we will give notice of migrations approximately one month before the migration date.

Migrated hosts are also on separate user accounts with a prepend of legacy_ this was to make the migration as smooth and easy as possible, if you have an existing micronode account and would like the accounts merged please open a ticket.

Does the HTTP proxy still exist on legacy nodes?

Yes.

Why have we migrated away from SolusVM?

Micronode was created for us to sell physical servers, we invested a lot of time and effort into the panel and we immediately faced issues, the Raspberry Pi's and other low end boxes are almost impossible to get currently and have been for over a year - We will come back to this however the panel was almost dormant during this time.

We invested a lot of money into building a panel in house and it was built to support KVM, OpenVZ, LXC and Physical hardware from the start. Recently we started offering NATVPS services through the Micronode panel to great success followed more recently by Instances.

So to get to the point:
SolusVM was costing us for two reasons, the management overhead of two panels and the monthly (and yearly) costs associated with SolusVM.

For transparency SolusVM costs us £600 per year plus the cost of the SolusVM WHMCS module which is an extra £150 per year - This is money that we would rather invest in additional locations and in additions and improvements to Micronode.

I hope everyone can accept this decision and that it doesn't cause too much drama, we're doing this for the right reasons and the prices of our deals will continue to be as competitive as possible.

This is not a support thread, if you cannot access the micronode panel please open a ticket.

I will add this is not a decision we took lightly.
/natvps

https://www.icann.org/uploads/compliance_notice/attachment/1205/hedlund-to-royce-1jun2023.pdf

That's seem to be end of Epik.com as domain registrar who is already facing law suits.

Also, Epik agrees to be sold to some buyer!
Deal would pay off debt to many domain registries, and the new entity might be able to pay back customers.

I've moved my remaining domains from Epik to various other registrars.
If you've not transferred-out your domains from Epik, this upto June, 22nd is the last chance!

https://my.onepoundemail.co.uk/plugin/announcements/client_main/read/8

In addition to our Business Plan specification upgrade posted in February (https://my.onepoundemail.co.uk/plugin/announcements/client_main/read/4), we're happy to announce further changes so that customers can benefit more from OnePoundEmail, thanks to a recent opportunity to reduce our overall operational costs.

We are happy to announce that with immediate effect, for existing and new customers, the following changes will come in to play.

Personal Plan - Our main attractor has been boosted from 3GB to 5GB email storage for the same £1 per month.

Standard Plan - An extra 50p now in your pocket! We've reduced the monthly price from £2.50 to £2 per month.

Business Plan - Here's where even bigger savings can be made. Monthly pricing has reduced from £5 to £4 per month.

Enterprise Plan - To keep in line with the above Business Plan change, our 50GB plan has reduced from £10 to £8 per month.

If you prefer that in yearly terms..
Personal - £12/year for 5GB
Standard - £24/year for 10GB
Business - £48/year for 25GB
Enterprise - £96/year for 50GB

These changes should soon be implemented to all active services and if you notice that they haven’t made your way after a few days, simply get in touch.

I look forward to monitoring the outcome of these changes and will make further changes if necessary. On another note, the lower average costs will also enable us to run some fun promotions in the future, so stay tuned!

Cheers,
Michael

I have some more things to consider such as larger plans, different quota splits and promos, watch this space.

Dear Customer,

Our AMD Ryzen virtual private servers (VPS) are a top performance service. There are supporters of various server platforms, but we must openly admit that Ryzen-based VPS are one of the leading contenders in terms of overall performance. That's why we're giving you a chance to test the quality of our Ryzen-based VPS at a discounted price!

Example offer:

✔️ 1 Ryzen CPU Thread
✔️ 1 GB RAM
✔️ 10GB SSD NVME Space
✔️ 1TB/Month Bandwidth
✔️ 1Gbps Uplink
✔️ IPv4/IPv6
✔️ VPS Control Panel Automation
✔️ Instant Service Delivery

With our discount code: ONLY $2.57/MONTH!!!

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• For new/additional sales only, existing services non-transferrable.
• Quantities and locations may be limited.
• Offers valid thru May 31st 2023 11:59PM PST.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-4-Ryzen-7000-to-launch-on-September-15-at-US-799-for-Ryzen-9-7950X-Ryzen-7-7800X3D-and-Ryzen-9-7950X3D-purported-3D-V-Cache-versions.637813.0.html

I'm sure most of you already know this, but just wanted to share for those who have yet to see this.

Summary:

• AMD f**ked up. CPUs are unstable and are slowly cooking themselves over regular use.
• Asus f**ked up. Did not provide proper over-current protection on their motherboards, so when AMD cpu shorts out, the motherboard provides more and more current to cook the CPU.
• Not everyone is affected, but many are.
• Issue not limited to only Asus motherboards but test results are still up in the air.
• Issue fixed to only AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs for now.

Title changed by FrankZ Apr 17th. Original title: packetVM suspected of running away

Motherboard

ASRock Rack W680D4U-1L

Processor

Intel® Core™ i9-13900 Processor

RAM

M324R4GA3BB0-CQK(DDR5 ECC) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Disk

SAMSUNG MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07 PCIe Gen 4

MetalVPS is trying to figure out what to do with the new server. It seems to perform very well! However, the EX101 costs € 89.00 per month. It would be great if we could find a way for some guys to enjoy Low End fun on the server while recovering the monthly server rent. If you have a good idea, please post here in this thread. Thank you!

Friendly greetings from New York City and Sonora, Mexico!

Webhorizon Shared Hosting Singapore changed its IP (and probably migrated the server) from 23.106.120.84 (LeaseWeb) to 103.216.223.242 (Host Universal Pty Ltd).

Somehow no email notification sent to me, but I believe @MikePT has announced this beforehand.

@Abdullah please give more concern to your customers.

Mod: please move this thread if necessary.

and then went to their web page and found this...

If this is true, I am sorry to see them go. It was a well run project.

Dear Valued Customer,

We wanted to remind you that the Promotional CDN Pricing which has been in effect for nearly two years will be coming to an end soon. This does not include Online Services. Pricing for Unique CSS, Critical CSS, Viewport Images, and Image Optimization will not be changing.

On April 30, 2023 at 11:59pm, Eastern Time (UTC-5:00), CDN Bandwidth costs will revert to regular price. Bandwidth will be priced regionally between 20 credits and 80 credits per GB. For a detailed table, please see our website (https://www.quic.cloud/cdn-regular-pricing/)

Double Credits
Also at that time, we will be doubling the amount of credits that you have stored in your my.quic.cloud account, according to the following terms:

The number of credits you have in your my.quic.cloud account as well as those allocated to CDN service at 11:59pm EDT, on April 30, 2023 will be doubled.
For example, if you have 1000 credits in your account and 100 credits allocated to CDN service, we will give you another 1000 free credits for your account, and another 100 free credits allocated to CDN service. This would increase your account-level credits to 2000 and your allocated CDN credits to 200.
This is a one-time event
At the time that your credits are doubled, you will be notified of the details via your registered account email
There is no limit to the number of qualifying credits we will double
Account level credits never expire
Credits are only doubled if:
They have been purchased through the QUIC.cloud shop
They have not been allocated to the Online Services (UCSS, CCSS, VPI, LQIP, or Image Optimization)
They were not purchased through the Partner Program
Thank You for Your Support
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support throughout our promotional period. During this time, we've added: more network nodes (80 and counting); 2FA support, upgraded HTTP/3 library; better TTFB for all cached websites; a new Partnership Program; a new Expert Onboarding Assistance program; better website navigation; and more.

We will continue to make improvements, and look forward to serving you into the future.

If you have any questions about reverting to regular pricing, or the one-time credit doubling, please contact our support team.

Sincerely,
The QUIC.cloud Team

Suspending a Google Compute Engine VM will save the state of your instance to disk allowing you to pick up where you left off when you Resume it later. While your instance is in the SUSPENDED state, you no longer pay for cores or RAM, instead you only pay for the storage costs of your instance memory.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/save-by-suspending-vms-on-google-compute-engine

The move comes as part of a long-running dispute over cybersquatting. Indian courts and cybersquatting victims are frustrated that registrars are not responding to their take-down notices. Some registrars are seemingly asking that plaintiffs get a U.S. court order rather than one from India.

Attorney Ankur Raheja, who frequently acts as a Respondent’s representative in UDRP cases, noted today that five registrars’ websites are not accessible through a few Indian ISPs at this time: Dynadot, Namecheap, Tucows, Sarek and Gransy. The first three are among the top 15 largest domain registrars, although Tucows mostly sells domains through resellers.

News Source: https://domainnamewire.com/2023/03/12/indian-isps-block-access-to-major-domain-registrars/

Mod Edit

Inofrmation about the closure of the project
March 19, 2023

Hey Folks,

We’ve decided that we’re shutting down the project at the end of the month. Please make backups of your important files, you have about two weeks to do so. Until then, the site will run without any changes.

There are several reasons for the closure:

– Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowly running out of steam. I guess all the competing file storage service companies on the market look better, offer better performance and more features. No one needs a dinosaur like us anymore.

– All sorts of adblockers, whether built into the browser, as add-ons, or in the form of DNS services. Sure, we all use them, but they take away any control the site owner has over the site. Eventually we get to the point where a vicious cycle begins, in order to pay for the server infrastructure you are forced to place more and more ads, then users fire up more and more adblockers and we get to a point like today.

– Rising electricity prices. Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance.

There are still a bunch of smaller reasons, but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.

To sum it up, we can no longer afford to maintain the site.

You can send us any comments to (we’ll read them all, we’ll probably respond to just a few):
support@zippyshare.com

Thanks for being with us over the years.

See you in the depths of the Internet. o7

It looks promising, even though it is an experimental feature and not yet suitable for production environments

Article updated on 2/6/23 with additional information and updated statistics.

Admins, hosting providers, and the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) warn that attackers actively target VMware ESXi servers unpatched against a two-year-old remote code execution vulnerability to deploy a new ESXiArgs ransomware.

Tracked as CVE-2021-21974, the security flaw is caused by a heap overflow issue in the OpenSLP service that can be exploited by unauthenticated threat actors in low-complexity attacks.

"As current investigations, these attack campaigns appear to be exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since 23 February 2021," CERT-FR said.

"The systems currently targeted would be ESXi hypervisors in version 6.x and prior to 6.7."

To block incoming attacks, admins have to disable the vulnerable Service Location Protocol (SLP) service on ESXi hypervisors that haven't yet been updated.

CERT-FR strongly recommends applying the patch as soon as possible but adds that systems left unpatched should also be scanned to look for signs of compromise.

CVE-2021-21974 affects the following systems:

ESXi versions 7.x prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551
ESXi versions 6.7.x prior to ESXi670-202102401-SG
ESXi versions 6.5.x prior to ESXi650-202102101-SG

Immediately close your 427 port.

Severity: High
CVSS v3 score: 7.5
Cause
The vulnerable process, Veeam.Backup.Service.exe (TCP 9401 by default), allows an unauthenticated user to request encrypted credentials.
Solution
This vulnerability is resolved in the following Veeam Backup & Replication build numbers:

12 (build 12.0.0.1420 P20230223)
11a (build 11.0.1.1261 P20230227)

Enough time to renew your domain at old price

SmartHost has added the following new locations for February 2023:
Montreal, Quebec - Canada
Durham, North Carolina - USA
Tampa, Florida - USA
Atlanta, Georgia - USA
Ottoville, Ohio - USA

Service is now available in the above locations.

Coming soon:
New Mexico - USA
Sydney - Australia
Toronto, Ontario - Canada
...and more.

~ SMARTHOST

If it's worth it or not, it depends on what people need I guess, though I know I shall now cancel this one.

it seems the malware injects code into a DLL that an IIS feature called Failed Request Event Buffering (FREB) uses when troubleshooting failed requests.

‘Frebniis’ Malware Hijacks Microsoft IIS Function to Deploy Backdoor

This isn't a post that I wanted to write, however it has become abundantly clear to me both via this thread and my communication (or lack thereof) with Jay that this isn't an issue that I can solve on my own.

I joined NexusBytes when Jay began to experience personal issues some time ago, things for the most part were going well, tickets were being responded to and services were remaining stable. I did not gain access to core systems, only the ticket system for which I could reply to tickets.

I just found out that some of the UK servers with Zare had not been paid, and this is why they are currently offline. I am unaware of the specifics of this, both directly with Zare and any other potentially affected providers as I was never given the right access to manage them. I've tried everything to get in contact with Jay, to get him to pay for the servers, but unfortunately, that has failed.

I'm beyond sorry and regretful that this has happened, the situation overall was difficult to navigate and I did not want to push for access to things that Jay was not comfortable with sharing. In hind sight, this was a mistake.

I would recommend taking any backups you can, while your servers are online. For any other affected customers whose services may already be offline, I will continue to try and contact Jay to see if we can get these back online.

Once again, I do apologise, but only having access to one system, is preventing me from being able to resolve this matter.

If I can help in anyway please let me know, I will try my best.

Thanks,
Jord

I checked the origin of the IP and the IP is original from namechap

sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted Reddit employees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

I come here with a bit of sad news. We are discontinuing the VPS line, as it's unprofitable, and we are unable to fill the server. We have only one person left on the VPS node, which we are currently trying to reach (that person bought a flash deal, and shall look into the tickets @ https://clients.kivobytes.com), and they will get a full refund and additional recompensation for early termination. In the future, we most likely won't create any new VPS lines but sell dedicated servers & technical support.

We are sincerely sorry for any complications this might create, and we hope everything ends well.

Regards,
Rafał

IKOULA has been supporting companies in all sectors since 1998 and has built up a comprehensive know-how based on solid technological grounds. We are constantly striving to offer you the best price/quality ratio on the market. This is part of our priorities and our DNA.

The current inflation has impacted almost all sectors and companies, including IKOULA. This inflation is due to the exponential increase in the cost of electricity and gas, but also of all the products and services that IKOULA buys to carry out its services. It seems that this trend of price increases will continue in 2023.

We would like to inform you of the following points :

• This price increase is authorised in the general Terms and Conditions of sales accepted by all our clients when signing contracts and/or making online purchases.
• IKOULA has not enforced - for more than 10 years - the SYNTEC increases which are specified in the contracts and which could have been applied annually.
• This increase only takes into account part of the additional costs caused by the energy crisis.

In order to improve the quality of our services, from 1 March 2023, an average increase of 8% will be applied on our rates (excl. VAT) for all IKOULA products and services. This increase will affect both new and existing customers. Indeed, for customers currently using IKOULA services, an increase of 8% will be applied on their bill(s) as of March 1st 2023.

What will not change is our commitment to always offer you the best service, and to accompany you with innovative products.

We thank you for your loyalty and understanding.

The IKOULA team

Hello {$client_first_name},


This email contains a ton of important information regarding updates to Central.so


Name Change

It is with great pleasure to announce that we've finally decided to change our name! After constant messages, we've decided to bite the bullet and swap it over. This does not affect anything about our services, just the name! A new website will also be done during this transition!

Central.so -> EasyVM.net


We will keep the Central.so domain, and have everything auto-redirect everything over. Bookmarks will not need to be updated.


This change will be happening on Friday, 27th January 2023. We will hold a maintenance period and perform upgrades to our backend during the same time. Please monitor https://status.central.so for updates.



Hardware Update

Our first 3900x Node has been provisioned and our overall 200th Node! We will still keep our trusty E5 servers as a "Budget" lineup to still have something to offer to those who do not need the performance of Ryzen. We're moving our focus over to newer hardware, to stay up to date with the current market and its desires.

We will start provisioning them in Dallas and then NY.



Update

We have been rummaging around to see what the best options are and are slowly closing down on one. We are planning to open Europe and then venture on to APAC (probably SG)

Nothing is yet set in stone, but we've had tons of requests to offer these locations!



Network Update

We've finally been allocated our own ASN -- https://bgp.he.net/AS26930! We're happy about this because our plan is to expand out and add more transit to overall lower our bandwidth costs.



There's a lot to intake from this email, if you happen to come across any questions, please feel free to send us an email -- support@central.so


Finally, I want to thank everyone for your patronage.


Best Regards,

Central.so/EasyVM Team

It also looks like his company has been operating at a large loss last year.

Financial details - https://lege5.ro/firma/netsilvania-network-srl-37899217
Court/debt details - http://portal.just.ro/302/SitePages/Dosar.aspx?id_dosar=30200000000442000&id_inst=302#Informaţii_generale

Google Translate:

The topic of energy costs has been on everyone's lips for several months. As a web hosting company, we need a lot of electricity despite efficient cooling and modern hardware, so electricity accounts for the largest share of the operational costs of our data center space.
Background of our cost structure
With today's article we want to explain transparently how we have dealt with the topic in the last few months and what news has arisen in the last few days. After an easing on the energy markets was not foreseeable at first, we started to deal with the topic. To understand the impact on our business, you need to know what our energy costs are made up of.

Last year, as some of you must have noticed on social media, we rented a larger area of ​​our own in our maincubes FRA01 data center (instead of individual racks as before), which will be expanded with racks according to our needs, to ensure our growth. Ultimately, it is two rows of racks with their own cold aisle and door in the middle, which we can expand until we reach the opposite wall. There are also separate cable routes that can be used to independently connect our racks as desired. This setup creates space for the next few years and enables us to implement practically all connection needs ourselves - whether for customer racks or our own. With a long contract term, we have ensured

What is quite common in the (larger) data center business also applies to us: Our total costs are primarily made up of the so-called (fixed) provision of power and a variable kWh price. The power provided is measured in kW and, to put it simply, means that we can use a certain peak power (e.g. 100 kW) and are also guaranteed that this load can also be cooled 24/7, i.e. the waste heat from our infrastructure can be dissipated. Since the data center has to ensure that it can provide this power and cooling capacity at all times, it is common for users to pay for their peak and not average consumption. Therefore, you usually have to pay a little more for the provision of performance than you consume on average.

Put simply, our price for the actual power consumption is made up of the annual purchase price of the data center and the so-called PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness). The PUE value results from the secondary consumers of the data center in relation to the productive load; i.e. primarily air conditioning, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and other building technology.

previous procedure
On the one hand, we tried to find out the electricity price for 2023 as a basis for calculation as soon as possible, and on the other hand, a few months ago, we "preventively" increased the price for new orders of some of our products by 11-14%. The hope was quite frankly that the additional costs expected in 2023 through the actual increase and the additional income in the last few months of this year could be absorbed to a sufficient extent. We expressly wanted to avoid making blanket price increases for all products without knowing the final electricity price. Although many competitors have corrected their prices upwards, in some cases drastically, in recent months, we wanted to wait and see what electricity price we ultimately have to calculate - knowing full well that the time window

From 2021 to 2022 we had already received a roughly 40% increase in electricity prices, which we were able to cushion at the time through forward-looking planning and the previously very low kWh price without having to touch existing contracts. First and foremost, we adjusted dedicated servers back then when they were canceled and thus rented out again. This enabled us to compensate for part of the additional costs.

The electricity price in figures
On the afternoon of November 30th, 2022 the time had come - we received a letter regarding the electricity price for 2023. The increase is more than 80% compared to 2022 and has, we have to say quite frankly, exceeded our fears and insofar shattered our hopes to be able to cross-finance them purely from new orders.

Since it is the easiest for them to implement and is one of the most important cost factors, we communicated their new electricity price to all customers who purchase their own racks from us on the evening of November 30th, 2022. This applies from January 1st, 2023 and cannot be intercepted by us in any way, since the margin for colocation is low and the electricity costs are passed on by us. That's why we design our colocation contracts in such a way that the electricity price is adjusted according to our procurement costs - of course also in the other direction with reduced costs.

New approach
Anyone who has already guessed while reading that we now have to make price increases for existing customers is right. However, we do not want to take the path of the currently “customary” flat-rate increase of all products by a certain percentage. Since we separate our racks according to product, we were able to determine relatively quickly which of our products will generate which additional costs. We have been doing this for the last few days.

Finally, with this knowledge, let's approach the problem from different perspectives:

Adaptation to cheaper products: Thanks to a high level of loyalty from existing customers, we still have active contracts that date back to 2014. At that time, for example, IP addresses could still be obtained free of charge for us and we rented vServers for €2.00/month and cheaper, albeit not often. With today's IP and energy prices, this is no longer a good idea and must be corrected at all points where, from today's perspective, a price that has been maintained for many years is no longer profitable. This also applies in particular to additional IPv4 addresses and IPv4 networks, but will also affect some newer products if they are simply no longer profitable in relation to the current calculation.
Replacing old systems: For many old contracts, we still operate servers with old processors that are no longer energy-efficient enough. We will replace these with more modern CPUs next year and at the same time upgrade products that we have to raise in price.
Other power-saving measures: Admittedly - there is not much more that can be done, since we have been paying attention to energy efficiency for a long time, but starting next week we will be working on further reducing the costs for cooling our servers by optimizing their ventilation without affecting the actual supply air temperature of ours to increase cold aisles so that our customers are not disadvantaged. Depending on the result, there will be a blog post about it.
Wherever possible, we will not only upgrade older products in terms of CPU performance, but also raise traffic and bandwidth to a modern level in order to be able to provide at least a certain added value.

Pricing Adjustment Details
We will write to all affected customers in the next few days and communicate the respective increase. In terms of our transparent communication policy, it is important to know how we proceed. We will not make a hard adjustment to an exact date, but to the next regular maturity that is after that date. The following example should illustrate this:

A product previously costs €10.00 per month and will be increased to €11.50 per month from January 1st, 2023. However, the product's next due date is December 31, 2022, i.e. before the deadline. Therefore, the product is billed again on this day for a full billing period at the old price - even if this is always paid a year in advance. In particular, we want to reward customers who have placed their trust in us with an individually selected longer billing period, and still enable those with a shorter billing period to be able to plan to a certain extent, since any billing that is due before the key date will always be at the old price; even if the period billed well into the next year.

With the measures mentioned, we intend to compensate for about half of the additional costs. What about the other half?

outlook
Politicians are currently discussing an electricity price brake. Many details are unclear; but above all, of course, where exactly the effective electricity price for the next year will level off for us. Of course, we don't expect the electricity price brake to completely solve the cost problem, but it should bring some relief.

In addition, many industry experts expect prices to ease from 2024. Our idea is to absorb the remaining additional costs in part for a year and to be able to buy electricity again from 2024, which, in combination with the necessary price adjustments, will make our products profitable again brings to the previous level. We consider this to be more customer-friendly than making a larger, flat-rate increase now and then promising later price reductions that nobody can really estimate.

It is annoying that we received the new electricity price so late, as our own communication was and is directly dependent on it, and we are aware that the resulting late communication will also be met with resentment. Nevertheless, we hope that we have explained well why we acted in this way and not otherwise. The next year will bring some challenges for the hosting industry; not only in Germany. We are grateful to have loyal and understanding customers by our side and are confident that we can make the best of the situation.

https://github.com/FOSSBilling/FOSSBilling/releases/tag/0.1.0

From the highlights section of the above linked Github page: "Initial Proxmox support, we don't recommend you to run it on production yet but contributions appreciated."

The license seems to be Apache 2.0: https://github.com/FOSSBilling/FOSSBilling/blob/main/LICENSE

Sorry, personally I haven't yet used FOSSBilling or BoxBilling or any billing platform except as a customer. I'm not using Proxmox at the moment either. So I can't provide recommendations. However, it seems excellent to me that the Community might have available a free and open source billing platform that soon might integrate with Proxmox.

Congrats to FOSSBilling! 🌟Friendly greetings from New York City and the Sonoran Desert! 🇺🇸🗽🇲🇽🏜️

I just got an email from them and decided to buy one to see.

edit: adding link https://contabo.com/en/locations/australia also note, that the plans gave me double storage, and they have free setup offer for a limited time.

G’day from Australia!

The launch of the new AUS Region is a next step forward in our quest to provide German quality and low prices globally.

Our cloud instances and dedicated servers in this new location are a great solution for anyone living in Australia or those who want to reach the Australian market.

Our newly launched Storage VPS is also available in this new Australian Region.

Existing instances can be migrated to our new Region as well. More information about the migration are available in our Product Documentation.

Find out more about our new AUS Region and the launch promotion here.

Best regards,

Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer

the routing seems great, they are using HE international transit, and Telstra for local transit

15-20ms ping from Superloop Melbourne to the service..

and a yabs inculded for the Medium SSD package

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Thu 08 Dec 2022 02:50:43 AM AEDT

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 26 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 6 @ 2794.750 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 15.6 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 392.6 GiB
Distro     : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Kernel     : 5.4.0-105-generic

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.30 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.08 MB/s    (1.0k)
Write      | 5.32 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.50 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.62 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.58 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 127.68 MB/s    (249) | 97.39 MB/s      (95)
Write      | 134.46 MB/s    (262) | 103.88 MB/s    (101)
Total      | 262.14 MB/s    (511) | 201.28 MB/s    (196)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 304 Mbits/sec   | 330 Mbits/sec   | 244 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 301 Mbits/sec   | 336 Mbits/sec   | 240 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 301 Mbits/sec   | 245 Mbits/sec   | 262 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 297 Mbits/sec   | 328 Mbits/sec   | 214 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 317 Mbits/sec   | 343 Mbits/sec   | 222 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 324 Mbits/sec   | 352 Mbits/sec   | 212 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 342 Mbits/sec   | 363 Mbits/sec   | 152 ms

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 986
Multi Core      | 5256
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19147907

5. December 2022

HETZNER CONTINUES ITS GROWTH IN THE US WITH A NEW LOCATION
West Coast - Here we come: Today, we officially launched our second location in the USA for cloud products in Hillsboro, Oregon, just outside of Portland, a location ripe for future expansion. Clients in the region can now benefit from the lower latency, and thus experience even speedier cloud performance. The region surrounding Hillsboro is nicknamed the “Silicon Forest” because so many respected international IT companies call it home.

The strategic location of Hillsboro is very exciting for us. In addition to the first location on the East Coast, this new West Coast location will allow us to provide better connections, including important links to submarine cables located in Hillsboro, which connect North America to Asia. The network connection is currently an impressive 400 Gbit/s to ensure rapid data exchange, and we will gradually improve this connection in the future.

You will now have your choice of five locations in Europe and North America, allowing you to make your cloud data geo-redundant, and thereby make your IT infrastructure more robust.

Just one year ago in Ashburn, Virginia, Hetzner launched its first location outside of Europe.

The new location at Hillsboro will host Hetzner Cloud servers mounted with AMD processors, and naturally, you will have access to all of the Hetzner Cloud features you already know and love, and at prices that are kind to your wallets.

With just a few clicks, you can configure and deploy new cloud instances, access handy features around the clock, mount or remove other resources such as block storage and snapshots, and scale your cloud resources up or down to meet your hourly needs.

GO WEST, CLOUD FANS!

This appears to indeed be true when checking https://stacksocial.com/brands/keepsolid (see screenshot below).

Now, there could be various reasons for that. For one, VPN Unlimited/Keepsolid lifetime is still being offered, but only in a bundle (e.g. with Sticky PW manager). This could mean they are slowly looking to phase out their lifetime deal from Keepsolid. In that case people looking to get it should do so before it's gone like Windscribe lifetime. Of course, it could also just be a marketing thing, offering VPN Unlimited/Keepsolid lifetime along with Sticky PW Manager and at one point the standalone item will return.

Just thought this would be a nice FYI

Only coupon according to Honey extension currently is "FJOJETR" bringing it to 26$ish.
Still a great price for a decent VPN (although sticky pw is probably just crap).