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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Elected by Dogs posted:

edit: also, contribution quote, my post from another thread: "There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth or disk space, it's essentially a lie. As soon as you start using any you're kicked off. Also, in addition, all of the major "unlimited" hosts show you prices with default range set to 2year+ prepay (some up to 10 year prepay) - when you pay monthly there's typically a huge setup fee plus it costs nearly double or triple the price you were shown."

may not apply for some places, but they will ALL cover their asses with ToS and figure out a way to toss you out if you don't conform to a 'normal user'
I routinely used >1TB/mo on a $4.95/mo shared hosting account and 30+mbit/s for hundreds of GB of bandwidth serving linux ISOs on a $55/mo unmetered dedicated server

they're just rare and almost certainly have other problems (massive overselling, weird software, unreliable networks) that may make it not worth it

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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You know what host sucks poo poo?
Santrex!

Santrex incident update posted:

Hello,

We've had a major security risk yesterday at around midnight the 12th of April 2010, and we're currently recovering the losses.

We can not guarantee any data being intact, and in worst cases that data was lost.

This affected our Shoutcast, XEN, OpenVZ, proxy services, DDoS hosting and France hosting.

We will email you all your new detais once your service is back online, please note that due to the amount of servers affected it'll take sometime for us to get it all back up.

Please have some patience while we work on that, and we do apologize for the inconvenience caused by this incident.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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DNova posted:

HostDime has an anti-IRC policy, which is pretty ridiculous. But you allow game servers, which makes so much sense, right?

Game servers: High bandwidth, high cpu, target of attack
IRC: extremely low bandwidth, low cpu, target of attack MAYBE if you're doing shady crap.

Asinine.
Most of the VPS hosts I've seen forbid IRC. Burst.Net autoscans for "ircd.conf" and warns anybody with it that they need to remove it immediately. Note that I only look at cheap (<$15/mo) plans. High end servers will allow more.

Hell, ServerOrigin takes it one step farther:

quote:

ServerOrigin.Com does not allow torrent clients or trackers due to copyright issues and resource abuse. Background daemons such as IRC bots, eggdrop, BitchX, XiRCON and any other program that interferes with normal server operation are not allowed on web servers. Web proxies are also not tolerated due to resource abuse. When using an account with shell, you are not allowed to run any servers or services on the ServerOrigin.Com network. Servers are defined as perlbots, proxies, bitchX, psyBnc, root exploits, DDoS scripts, Shoutcast servers, etc. Running any of these will face an immediate suspension, and users will be subject to a fine no less than $50.00 USD, and no more than $100.00 USD.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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DNova posted:

Ban the abusers not the entire idea.
An IRC server that gets hit with a DDoS would be a problem.


Banning IRC clients is dumb. You can always try the "Run it and hope they don't find it" method.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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basically, botnet owners should move on to XMPP

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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nbv4 posted:

Basically I'm wanting to move from my Linode account to something thats roughly the same size, yet a little cheaper. I've been administrating sites deployed on VPS's for years now and have never had the need to file a single ticket. Why pay extra for stuff you'll never use?
post your specs and what you pay

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Fayk posted:

As a hobbyist though, I wish they almost snuck a cheaper/budget plan in at the new bottom-end. There are cheaper VPS hosts, but they all just seem like such fly-by-night operations. I was thinking (short of the $5 shady ones) that rackspace cloud stuff sounded decent for the ~$11 range. Maybe my standards are mis-calibrated.
What are you using a VPS for?

The WHT VPS Offers forum is an easy way to find a cheap VPS and be able to easily check if they're fly-by-night; if their account is old they're probably not going to run off with your money. (Though they might still suck, lol Santrex)

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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nooge posted:

I'm going to loving kill someone.

Or switch to linode.
don't switch to linode
find a host in the WHT VPS Offers forum and use one of those, pretty much guaranteed you can find one better for cheaper or the same price as Linode

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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c0burn posted:

What's the scoop on good UK/Euro hosts?
http://server.lu/ is a pretty great dedicated server host out of Luxembourg. (also, very cheap for what you get)

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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JerikTelorian posted:

The server is only for some friends (~10) and I. Can we just use the server IP for navigation? We'll only need this for the game, a mumble server, and perhaps a light http server to host game world maps. Alternatively, could I simply point a DynDNS to the server IP and save some cash?
You can probably just give them fake info for the DNS and it'll work fine. Or DynDNS will work. DynDNS is a real DNS.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Aquarium of Lies posted:

I guess not! I can't connect to IRC, period, through my server. I figured I would ask here before I sent in a ticket for it.
Connect via SSL?

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Anybody know where to find lists of/info on VPS hosts with servers in Russia? Or other east-Europe countries.

I've found Heihachi (reseller of 2x4 reseller of wahome) but I'd rather not go with them since they are A) slightly sketchy, and B) openly involved in cybercrime.
(If you Google their address, the second result is their site. The first result is them admitting they allow botnets, and being accused of hosting child porn)

Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 10, 2010

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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take boat posted:

I'm in the market for a cheap US server to do supplemental file hosting for a site I run. Minimum specs would be:
  • 10GB+ storage space
  • 1TB+ bandwidth
  • good bandwidth
And that's it. The server doesn't have to be fast or even very reliable, as permanent storage will be elsewhere. I don't expect disk io to be a concern.
http://www.quickweb.co.nz/ has good VPSes.
I'm on one of their OpenVZ plans: http://quickweb.co.nz/vps-linux-plans
(VZ1, got it at an absurd discount of something like $65/year)
Paid monthly, for $15 you get 20GB of space and 2TB of bandwidth on a 1gbps port. Discounts for paying in advance.

They're generally high rated and very popular at LowEndBox. (I can't decide if that's a back-handed compliment or not.)

I'm only using mine for very minor file hosting (<150GB/mo), though, so do research.
Alternatively, just read WebHostingTalk.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Does anybody know a good, simple image-upload script I can drop on my server for my own use? So I don't have to use SFTP then SSH in to move the file.

I tried to look for a PHP script to do this a month or so back but literally every script I found either had a current exploit available, or its previous version was vulnerable and its current version was a year+ old, or it was an unnamed script that I assumed was exploitable.

So I guess I'd prefer Python or Perl or something. I don't care about auth, I'll have lighttpd handle it.

nex posted:

Resource and bandwidth usage will be low, so network stability is my main concern.
Because I'm doing latency monitoring network reliability is important, I guess going for the lowest price will get me congestion and poor internet transit..

Being able to setup some extra shell accounts would also be nice.
http://cheapest.prcn.co.cc/ has a sortable catalog of cheap VPSes. Cheap often but not always means congestion and unreliability, but there are exceptions! I got a Softlayer VPS from QuickWeb for an absurd we're-just-starting-up price ($60/yr) and haven't ever run into any problems normally associated with overselling (and very little downtime) that I'd normally expect to see for a cheap VPS.
lowendbox may also be useful. If an offer is cheap but the resources given are also very limited, they're probably not overselling anywhere near as bad as, say, Santrex. (who suck)
Of course, the $20+/mo providers are more likely to provide solid service. I prefer to spend time looking for a cheap-but-reliable provider (by trying multiple), but you might prefer to just go with a known-good provider.

Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Mar 9, 2011

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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CampingCarl posted:

Is there a general consensus on where to get domains from?
Namecheap. .com domains are $10.16, with free anonymized whois records. March's coupon of "SPRINGLIGHT" drops domain price to $9.28.
Also free SSL certificate.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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ferretsrule posted:

I don't need SSL on my sites, should I let them expire or is there anything else I can do with them?
put ssl on your sites anyway

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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drcru posted:

Fun fact: the Namecheap SSL certs don't renew each other!
fun fact: startssl is free

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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divio is hax posted:

Does anyone have any experience with the VPS hosting in the first post? I'm having difficulty understanding how the prices are determined. For example vps hosting like myhosting.com and vpsland.com are incredibly cheap - even when considering their windows server 2008 options... almost too cheap to be true. $20-30 prices for base packages. That is half what most everyone else charges. How are they getting away with this and what features would I be losing.

Edit: Does anyone know of a reputable VPS hosting review site or forum that specializes in this stuff?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling#Web_hosting

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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why the gently caress would you buy a $38/mo dedicated server to use only as a VPN?

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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DarkLotus posted:

Don't knock all the Goon run hosts!
Yeah, you shouldn't really criticize something you haven't tried. And I sure as hell hope nobody here would make the mistake of trying a goon-run host.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Butt Soup Barnes posted:

So I'm in the beginning stages of planning a new website. It will be mainly a forum but will be hosting TBs worth of 100-300MB files. At peak times I expect to have 100's of users concurrently downloading these files.
What is your budget

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Hammerite posted:

How technically competent do you need to be to successfully (and securely) use a VPS? I have a site that runs on shared hosting, just a straightforward PHP/MySQL job. But I want to set up a git repository* that I can connect to from home or from work, and I can't do that on my current shared host.
http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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drcru posted:

Hm. I had this happen once and the entry point was an old installation of Coppermine, I moved it to another account just in case. Are all your domains hosted under one cpanel username? If not, something more sinister might have happened to the server.
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/20110925-systems-announcement.html
The entire provider was hacked, not just him.



Anybody have a recommendation for free DNS? I'm using WTFdns but just noticed that one of their two nameservers doesn't resolve, so I'd prefer to switch to something before the other one decides to die too.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Monster w21 Faces posted:

I've already signed up for dreamhost though. :/

Am I boned?
sign up somewhere else then

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Monster w21 Faces posted:

But isn't the domain name tied up with dreamhost now?

Rufo posted:

*puts eggs marked "domains" and "hosting" in a single, precariously balanced basket*

Biowarfare posted:

Getting domains and hosting at the same place is the worst possible idea on earth

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Comradephate posted:

Where I work we don't care about your domains like... at all.
Sounds like a great place to put some domains!

On topic, does it matter which of Google's MX records I use?

Support says:
code:
 1    ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
 5    ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
 5    ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10    ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10    ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
but Google Apps itself says:
code:
10    ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
20    ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
20    ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
30    ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
30    ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
These are equivalent, right? Email to one of my domains has yet to work so I'm doublechecking my poo poo.
e: ask a question, fix it myself a minute later. I hate when this happens

Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Oct 3, 2011

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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my $60/yr VPS is awesome

too bad I've gone through 660GB of bandwidth in ten hours since that's most of my quota

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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eightysixed posted:

Seedbox?
posted a 10MB gif on reddit

Bob Morales posted:

What provider is that from? what do you get, 1TB of traffic a month or less like 800GB?
QuickWeb, but they no longer have prices that low. I got this price right when they were launching their US servers. I've got 1TB of traffic and usually don't really use any of it.

Went through something like 940GB in a bit more than a day.

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

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Bob Morales posted:

Their 512MB/25GB/500GB plan for $9.95 doesn't look bad, especially if you can sustain 20mb/sec on it. How is the disk/cpu performance?

http://www.quickweb.co.nz/supa-vps-plans.html
I would have had a higher sustained speed, but it was at 1.00 load (being served over https). So that's the CPU perf.

Not sure about the disk/cpu other than that and can't test until I can figure out where the new recovery console is since SSH no longer starts on boot :suicide:

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