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Username: dfroe
Email: david@dfr.li
Joined: January 2020
Visits: 73
Last Active: June 2023
Roles: Member, Services Provider
Thanked: 40

> @FrankZ said: The answer is 42 fair share vcores.

I will express my deepest apology for this when visiting Douglas' grave next time, but in this particular case the only plausible…

Thanked by (2)skorous FrankZ
You can also avoid all the HTTP 'overhead' by using a simple DNS query to achieve the same:

alias myip4="dig @208.67.220.220 @208.67.222.222 myip.opendns.com A +short"
…

Thanked by (3)tjn flips ehab
> @ralf said:
> I'm curious what 'needs new root" ' means in this context?

Probably just a phrase like 'this VPS is searching for a new $HOME'. ;)

Thanked by (1)pkr
> @bikegremlin said:
> > @dfroe said:
> > If you want to I can offer as some kind of gift to our community to distribute the file for free over some of my existing and hi…

Thanked by (2)bikegremlin Ympker
If you want to I can offer as some kind of gift to our community to distribute the file for free over some of my existing and highly idling servers, for example unmetered SYS Frankfurt @250 Mbps or m…

Thanked by (5)_MS_ chimichurri Ympker bikegremlin FrankZ
Don't know how this whole OVHcloud rebranding worked, but for SYS I did not receive any official mail regarding the price increase, yet.

I had a really nice and easy to remember failov…

Thanked by (1)Falzo
I keep trying not to do so as I am aware of the reasons and most of my locations are selected long-term and for a reason (which never is the price alone).
But in certain cases it is hard to re…

Thanked by (1)jtk
> @bikegremlin said:
> SEPA doesn't work for us living in the "wrong" countries (like Serbia).

I forgot about that indeed there are still countries on the European contine…

Thanked by (4)vimalware Hetzner_OL bikegremlin Falzo
> @bikegremlin said:
> Right now, it's only possible via a wire transfer, which costs an arm and a leg (at least a $30 commission by banks).

SEPA payments are free If you …

Thanked by (2)Hetzner_OL adly
Over the past months there were several great improvements on their Frankfurt network (fixed some nasty router issues, moved to another DC, ..).

A SmokePing from a dedicated server in …

Thanked by (1)bjo
> @RapToN said: Convince yourself.

April wasn't a bad month, either. :)

(ping'ing Google from a KTS24.com server)
![](https://i.imgur.com/vQM2DSI.png "")

Thanked by (1)Amitz
> @Falzo said:
> that's where ipsets and or fail2ban can be helpful, though probably not on shared hosting.

There you probably have .htaccess or the like.

A…

Thanked by (1)bikegremlin
> @terrorgen said:
> Ah that explains why they use Ubuntu's kernel: to offer zfs-on-root.

I am operating multiple servers which I installed with [Debian Buster Root on ZFS…

Thanked by (1)Not_Oles
> @Anon said:
> Just a regular RAM, not ECC. Didn't even know that ZFS could be used only with ECC.

Of course ZFS does not _require_ ECC memory, but it is _highly recommen…

Thanked by (2)Anon vimalware
> [@angstrom said](/discussion/comment/22137/#Comment_22137): how is this unfair?

If your goal is that everybody needs to pay the same amount of money for the same service.
<…

Thanked by (1)angstrom
> @benz said:
> @dfroe
>
> I see you're registered with the Bundesnetzagentur and likely running 5Ghz PtP connections.
> Any gear recommendation you could…

Thanked by (1)benz
I would also vouch for [First Root KVM Power Edition](https://www.first-root.com/server/vps/kvm-power-edition/#fndtn-panel-mini) (KVM). They are providing reliable service, good network quality and s…

Thanked by (5)vserversite vyas tehdartherer Falzo uptime
From my point of view the network connectivity has definitely improved and no significant packet loss since 28th January. Good work!

![](https://i.imgur.com/Pzvb6zD.png)

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Thanked by (2)donko uptime
I love my LowEndDedi from 2018 with 2x L5630 CPU and FastEthernet for only 14.50 USD/month.
Once I sent a parcel with a PCIe SSD, 4x 1 TB HDD and some cheap used 80 Gig of RAM to Romania.

Thanked by (1)poisson
Big thanks @AnthonySmith for creating this shiny place here.
It's impressive to see how efficient a system like this can be run.
If I knew that I would have donated my idling InceptionH…

Thanked by (1)InceptionHosting
Danke, thanks for the warm welcome, @uptime.
If the spirit of LET is going to move to LES, I am happy to join you guys here. ;)

Thanked by (2)poisson uptime

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