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(Quote) It's just the reality of the situation these days. Especially when it isn't uncommon to just get a /24 slapped for one bad actor with a few IPs, and the admin time staying on top of all the various lists. For the price, something like MXRou…
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Is @DataIdeas active here? He does NUC/RPi style colo in Texas. I would definitely check with them. There has to be someone in NOCIX/KC that would resell 1U for a good price too I'd assume.
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(Quote) Hmm, not necessarily. The price to exclude them completely is above anything that would sell on LE-focused forums. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, but you can just look at where bigger publicly traded providers price things and get an idea. That…
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(Quote) For me specifically it was more that it was being abused by non-target markets. Getting literal boatloads of transient customers who hop at the first sign of saving 1 cent per year or abuse your IP space until GFW bans it and then demands yo…
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@Freek just to be safe as well, make sure that you don't mix ranks on RAM in the same system. I.e. Dual Rank (2Rx4) with Quad Rank (4Rx4) or any variants of that. If it is your first foray into enterprise stuff, this is a huge oversight that can cau…
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(Quote) A very well said and rational take. Between my own internal guidelines on this, and discussing with smaller/newer hosts fairly often this is a bit of an issue. YABS is an excellent tool, but just like MTR/traceroute the operator has to know …
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(Quote) Sucks, always sad to hear about a crappy experience with a drive failing like that so soon :/ A bit of a tangent, but internally I kind of chuckle when we'll get someone asking why a HDD in a rented server has 30-50k Power On Hours (Ultrast…
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hey @host_c would you stop? the last thing i need is more competition on the correct hardware. :s
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(Quote) its not you its me
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(Quote) No, we don't.
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(Quote) Yeah, I think that is normal. Even simple things that I knew were wrong at the time like "Oh man, we shouldn't deploy this server like this. I'm going to regret fixing this later, but we have no choice and it can't keep waiting".
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@host_c spitting so much truth, some of it hurts to read :s (Quote) Have been slowly converting to full Arista (was full Juniper, but on value:port Arista is winning out at scale). It's been pretty seamless, though tedious. Final bit will require …
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(Quote) I'll try to share some insight as to why it can make sense, but it doesn't always make sense. If you're a downstream/business customer looking to have (just a random example) some EPYC or Ryzen servers that are 1U, depending on the mix of h…
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(Quote) Just because it's dark at 3pm doesn't mean the day is over. EDIT: you were looking for 50mb shared hosting right?
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(Quote) 1 and 2 already happened. 3 happened in my head.
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(Quote) I dont know about quite that quickly, but something definitely happening today. 3 things, actually.
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(Quote) Hope shall still exist. Some broken brand new harddrives ruined Sunday. @host_c is the real one I'm disappointed in. First he didn't even let me buy a special, now he won't even post here?!
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(Quote) If you were to just go and start from scratch, something like this (rough, repeatable prices--not the best/worst): * 1x /24 - ~$85/m * 4x Those E5 LTO deals from BreezeHost (HP DL360 G9) with a few slight upgrades when/where needed (disk/ra…
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(Quote) This forum is pretty self-selected down to a bunch of good lads. The biggest issue that I ran into that I'd be happy to warn you away from: when your very low-margin deals that are too attractive outside of your target markets. It's when sit…
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(Quote) If the refund is within a timeline that the merchant accepts it, the fee is refunded to us so we also refund that to the customer. Recently, a decision by me meant we had customers who were given a special reprieve from our refund timelines/…
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(Quote) Maybe chicken and egg, but the pinch is real on all fronts. Less disposable income, rising costs on every front for every business. Every time you turn around its +XX% (as a business, I mean). For example, I knew a price hike was coming on s…
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(Quote) A lot of early indicators (in other industries, I mean) that I pay attention to are showing it being a weak BF. We'll see if that is true and a bigger economic trend is forming, or if people just didn't rush out to Best Buy at 9PM after dinn…
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What's missing? $3/yr dedi?
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(Quote) Yep, you're correct. Anything that was too old to automatically refund from our panel is being batched--but it's simply manually sending the calculated refund out as a PayPal payment like you would do to for any random p2p PayPal transaction…
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(Quote) Yeah go ahead, sooner is always better. We knew the surge was coming, already sent a pallet of frozen pizza and dr pepper to @skorupion
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(Quote) Never lost hope. Poster still proudly hanging in datacenter where all the younger guys continually ask "hey, uhh.. who is that? why is he hanging on a server cabinet?"
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(Quote) If I recall, that was only ever used on a VDS service. Not affected. Idea is to improve the rest of the lineup (directly and indirectly) but needed to take a moment to clean up the shed. This is only the [PROMO] tagged stuff, and for real us…
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(Quote) It'll be done via ticket as it's not going to be a fixed discount across the board, depending on which product you already had/etc. There are a few options you can decide from ranging from 'no price change' to 'slight price change' along wit…
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(Quote) Thank you :) I opened a topic over here as well with the statement just in case, didn't see this one until after. (Quote) The burden just became increasingly too much of the same abuse patterns, over and over. I don't want to go into too m…