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(Quote) I don't see it as exotic. There's lots of tech stuff in the bay area, so if I want to run a low latency service for that region, SJC is the best place for it. Linode, Vultr, Digital Ocean, and maybe others all have services around there be…
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(Quote) There has to be a lot of users in the bay area! If SJC goes away, LAX would be my next choice, but SJC is a nice location if the issues can be straightened out.
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In principle, it shouldn't be possible to crash a whole VM just because some application runs out of memory. I wonder what is going on.
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(Quote) Meh, another layer of proxies, accounts, etc.? Idk. Maybe it is workable. I'm just trying to run a personal znc, not an ircd. It didn't occur to me that irc had the idea of problem networks. Anyway it's only one address giving me troub…
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Meh, I notice one of my San Jose IP's is banned from an irc network that I use. The other one works, which is good enough for me for now. Haven't tried the NY one. These IP's generally don't seem like the cleanest, oh well.
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(Quote) I think the big providers qualify new hardware configs for months before opening them up to non-beta users. 14 day burn in is for new installs of hw configs that have already been qualified. It sounds like the hw issues in this thread came…
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Hmm, I hadn't thought of the DNS. I figured they were intercepting the TCP stream since they do resolve to the right address for ports other than 80 and 443. Or anyway, ssh and ping go to the right place. I haven't tried putting an httpd on anoth…
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(Quote) It redirects port 80 to a safebrowse.io page that says warning, high risk content. Trying to visit anyway loops to the same page. 443 fails SSL handshake because of comcast messing with the connection somehow. Other ports like ssh work fi…
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Followup to above: I spoke too soon, Comcast blocks the new Buffalo IP too. It's annoying. It is one of the old 384MB specials and I have a small personal website on it. I guess I can try to migrate it to another location? I'm not sure if that i…
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In positive news, I see that the new IP address for my Buffalo (NYC?) vps seems to not be blacklisted by Comcast. I hope it keeps working. Also re: (Quote) I should add that it's ok (and expected) if the 2 year renewal cost goes to $40. I can't …
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I have VPS on SJC2005 (down) and SJC2008 (older servier, working again after being down for months, but idling and expiring soon since I don't need two VPS at that location). I'd rather not get migrated to LAX if there is some hope of SJC2008 becom…
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Is this Comcast? They intercept ports 80 and 443 of my Buffalo VPS but I can still ssh. Apparently that server's IP range is in some kind of scam of phishing blacklist.
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420 ;). Meanwhile I got IP change notice for NYCB022. Is that still Buffalo these days? I didn't get any notices for SJC.
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(Quote) If you have an ASN, getting your own v6 space should be pretty easy still. It is v4 that is difficult. (Quote) This doesn't sound worthwhile. v6-only is almost as good, in the event that the VPS's dedicated v4 address goes away. Whatever…
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(Quote) For dedicated servers too? Yikes. Can someone tell me what MJJ is? Malaysian Jiu-Jitsu? I only know about the Brazilian kind. If I understand the Tokyo stowaway thing, it sounds crazy that they haven't been booted, but it is also a seri…
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How does an IP address get stolen from a VPS, except through someone getting to the control panel somehow?
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(Quote) Same thing as before, can't seem to reboot from panel. Should I assume the disk is trashed, and reinstall the OS? It's a slight nuisance if the old data is lost, but I can deal with it. Aha, I was able to connect with VNC, which didn't wo…
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Ah ok, I will check again in a few days I guess. Thanks.
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Looks like SJC2008 is reachable from billing panel again, which is great, it had been unreachable before. Is this node still having network issues? Billing and control panels say my VPS is offline, attempting reboot doesn't change it, it's unreach…
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This being LES, I expect that for most of us, low cost dominates everything else.
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(Quote) I think people mostly want raw capacity. More drives = more rack space, more power consumption, more separate bits of hardware to fail, etc. Better to use large drives, but enough for raid 6. Whenever the Hetzner SX line is refreshed they…
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I was thinking more like 4x or maybe 6x, enough for raid-6 to not burn too much of the space. Although, borg backup to one or your storage vps might be an alternative.
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This is nice, a version with more drives would also be interesting.
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I'm now getting ticket updates saying the invoices were bogus and are being cancelled.
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I just got 3 different $15 "IP blacklist" invoices and tickets for a VPS that has been offline for months. The IP address specified is not the one that the VPS was originally been on, though maybe it got migrated. The tickets say "w…
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(Quote) That is interesting. Some years ago providers were leery of crypto payments but a few took a chance on them and were pleasantly surprised to find very little abuse. I guess that didn't last. Thanks for keeping us informed.
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What people are trying to tell you is that Virmach's systems are very broken right now, there is ticket overload, there is no way to predict when or whether anything will be fixed or working. You may not like that answer but that is the only answer…
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(Quote) It's ok in my case. I'm not really affected by the outages in the sense that both my VPS in SJ are idlers these days. It seemed to me though that many other nodes were also having hw trouble, suggesting some kind of flaky hw selection and/…
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Bah, SJC vps crashed while I was compiling Python 3.10 on it, which takes a couple of cpu minutes. I don't know how far it got but it was partway through. I hope one compilation didn't make the node overheat and crash. Is there some crappy hardwa…
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Glory be, one of my SJC VPS's is back online. That's the one that has been down a few times over the past few months. The other has been down the whole time. Let's hope the upcoming DC visit helps.
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(Quote) No they adopted that policy a year or two ago. Originally mining was permitted, then the cloud server cpus got hosed with it so they banned it on cloud servers but still permitted it on dedis. Then I think it was Chia that got out of hand,…
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(Quote) I have two SJC VPS on separate nodes and both are unreachable from client area, so I think more than one SJC node is down.
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@Virmach if the cpus are overheating, do you not notice that from software temperature monitoring using the sensors in the mobos? This sounds like the boards weren't properly put together with regard to thermal paste etc. They really need to be te…
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Do you need someone to go to the SJ data center and mess with stuff? I know people in that area who might be available.
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I guess I'm currently 2/4 depending. 2 of 3 vps up (one has been random, one is partly blacklisted by comcast), 1 vps with disconnected node for at least a month, vpsshared down but idk if that "counts".
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Oh that's interesting, I didn't realize that. That makes it more attractive, though I'll stick with FOSS stuff since I'm a die-hard about that. Thanks.
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I also have one of those and the host node is down. It occurs to me that because the control panel times out connecting to it, maybe I can't migrate it to another location.
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(Quote) Maybe hosting isn't the right word, but having an account with the company and giving them access to your linux collection. This type of thing should be 100% private.
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It just seems nuts that people let some company host this stuff for them, instead of self-hosting. That's an awful lot of linux isos.
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Yep it looks like the IP address of mine has changed. The new address responds to ping, so it's not nullrouted like the old one. But it times out for ftp and http. Well it's a start.