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(Quote) they recently revamped their control panel; not that I use it a lot and it's not something I'd weight in when going shopping. Their ticket support was awful last time I needed it (~9 months ago) but maybe things have improved. I have one ser…
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(Image) I'd generally avoid RAID-5 (it's 2020 already!) and go for either RAID-1, RAID-10 or RAID-6 (depending on your requirements); RAIDZ3 only if your OCD is grave enough
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I usually perform a set of action required to score 80+ on lynis. While the score, per se, is mostly pointless, some of the suggestions aren't pointless to me. These involve: * automating install of security updates on a pre-defined day of the week…
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I'd point, for reference, to these topics: https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/137/simple-free-monitoring-tool https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/270/lightweight-server-monitoring/
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I'm a simple man. I see Alpaca. I vote Alpaca. (Quote) I never use a smartphone to browse the Internet unless exceptionally required, not to mention a forum. I'm an old millennial after all I'd add a css to make signature blink on mobile only, so t…
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(Quote) You're still asking about DNS, right? There isn't a one-size-fits-it-all solution, really. Most of the features a managed DNS solution may offer are often overlooked. I'd say your needs and expectations are more than covered with a Cloudflar…
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(Quote) This is a separate topic but I'd reply here, even if you you've been kindly asking via DM too, since I generally follow the "default to open" approach (and others may correct me or add something too) When we talk about authoritativ…
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First you should identify your needs. Do you need a lot of bandwidth, or you're just looking for better latency? Do you manage a streaming site, or a wordpress blog? Then, you'd look to optimize for your usage case. (Quote) It's complicated. If you…
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(Quote) I see. I used to fetch remote keys but it wasn't always possible, or convenient, to secure the transport layer as in Mandos and NBDE solves that. (Quote) Straight after boot? As in, cycling keys after reboot? (Quote) Well I'd consider to a…
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(Quote) It seems to me you have to better figure out what's the attack surface you're trying to harden, against whom and for which purposes. Anything besides FDE is pretty moot since you're likely to have (potentially) sensitive data in other places…
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(Quote) Assuming you won't encrypt /boot, with a dracut module or a dropbear initramfs (depending on the distro) you may input a passphrase via SSH before boot or auto-fetch a remote key you make available online or, better, unlock using clevis+tang
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(Quote) 1.79€ is the price including German VAT, and I am not billed German VAT. I stated I pay 1.50 €, I pay 1.50 €. The advertised price on their German site include German VAT, I reminded that the advertised price include German VAT. It costs 1.…
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@sonic no, it was a special offer. They offered it again this year twice: once for BF and then again in their Adventskalender (advertised prices include German VAT)
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@AK_KWH I contacted support only twice in a couple of years, the first time for billing-related stuff (VAT for intra-EU B2B) and the second time recently 'cause of a severe blip in my monitors (packets dropped at the edges for a couple of hours righ…
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(Quote) On a box with five low-traffic wordpress sites mariadb is taking 1.1G
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The cheapest is a VPS 200 G8 Aktion I presume, from netcup I had two of these and dismissed one some weeks ago 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, 40 TB traffic, € 1.50/Mo
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(Quote) (Quote) Just keep content on the forums you care of, no need for dark SEO If you duplicate content here and "there", there may be a small chance that the new upcoming contender on the block is perceived as abusive by some unclev…
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In Germany froxlor seems to be quite famous, even netcup offers free froxlor panels for their VPS DA doesn't (still?) seem very used in continental Europe, Plesk is what dominates the industry (at least in the mid to big web agencies), and it has be…
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I do appreciate the effort in helping out others and giving them a somewhat sensible guideline in their purchases. Anyway, as willie noted, some people on LE* are very likely to flock on an unsustainable deal and, when deadpool comes, they will be s…
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(Quote) A replicable, automated rebuild from scratch is my first approach too. Also, borg (Quote) GlusterFS borg. GlusterFS is nice but it depends on latency and pipes of your WAN, unless you go for master-slave Geo-replication then maybe you can b…
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* Prometeus. I had boxes with them for over 6 years, top notch performance for the price, even more considering the regional market they're in. Swift ticket handling the few times I have needed them * Liteserver. Rock solid performance so far, I've …
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(Quote) well, those were partner DCs (and their cloud dept. is kept apart from everything else. Consider that you won't even have a chance to add IPv6 on their dedicated servers...) They offer a lot of services to the Public Administration and they …
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Please don't suggest Aruba. Ever. I know that you have heard of those old magical 1€ promos on arubacloud. But no. Really. That's the first company anyone minimally conscious in Italy would avoid. I'm pretty sure OP knows them already... I'd rather…
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(Quote) (Image) On HB I shortly considered to transfer away exactly one of those boxes before BF, you've missed that I guess... I did announce it only a few days before BF (I had high hopes to... consolidate a couple of boxes into a shiny AX server…
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If you're concerned about the Italian compulsory fattura elettronica, shellrent has some plans with "unlimited" space and traffic. It seems that most of their servers are rented with OVH, anyway they are supposed to have something in MIX-i…
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Prometeus uses AMD EPYC 7551P hosts for their TeraKVM product line
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I'd second virt-manager. It's what I use on my desktop, and it works perfectly. In addiction to QEMU/KVM it may handle LXC as well. It usually comes with some pre-configs for commonly virtualized OS. Almost anything can be handled within the GUI (un…
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Buy another dedi to add proper redundancy to your data, eventually picking different providers, datacenters and possibly countries; dismiss anything you won't possibly ever use unless you believe you need a point of presence in that country/region.…
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(Quote) My limited experience with those "Chinese Amazon clones" has been fine but I did my own research beforehand, so I'd totally second the tip coming from @willie to double-check before ordering. I don't particularly care about "A…
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(Quote) My experiences with ebay and amazon are exactly the opposite. Here, generally speaking, ebay sucks and amazon rocks. Packages arrive sooner than expected and if there's any issues with them, you can get a pretty immediate refund without both…
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(Quote) Can't tell if sarcasm or language barrier. I'm not 100% sure you've caught the joke that, in the end, you'll always end paying $9 (if you cancel two, no refunds will be provided and you've effectively only one VPS for $3, plus $6 that won't …
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(Quote) they always identify themselves correctly and they give you an option to opt out/present you a list of IPs to block, also they won't crawl your server at ludicrous speeds. There's way worse. (Quote) That's usually true and I'm such old scho…
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liteserver is one of the few providers I blindly trust, and I've done so for over three years currently. Good network, reliable performance, supportive team if you ever need them. Highly recommended.
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LXC is nice, but on your own proxmox. It seems to me that the general consensus is that it's not a valid alternative to OpenVZ since it's an unprivileged container running mostly on generic kernels and designed mostly to run untrusted apps or otherw…
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I've settled with postfix+Kopano for quite a few domains and it's going fine. I had to (contribute to) code from scratch a (proprietary) custom panel à la postfixadmin some time ago for Zarafa/Kopano + postfix (self-hosted & native EAS was deeme…