I have several VPS distributed across different provider. Most of them are running Debian. Is there a package or set of packages that can allow me to manage them as a private cloud per se. I don't want to ssh in each system everytime I want to do something. It gets annoying really fast when you have password protected ssh keys. So what I am looking for is a way to establish the trust between them and make it easily accessible from each other, which can also help some backup logistic. I have tried the bastion host approach but it acts more as a gatekeeper than collaborator. Any help , tips, links , ideas would be appreciated.
How to setup the virtual cloud?
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Some colocation service 1U Shared in NY
Some colocation service 1U Shared in NY
We have a server without use in Choopa
and we would like to transfer it to some other datacenter
if you know any company that does pickup from the server of the same datacenter would be great
Thanks
George
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Debian 9 appears today
If all goes well, Debian 9 appears today. Yay!
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Free BuyVM Stock Notifier
Hello everyone :)
A couple of weeks ago I coded a website that I think might be useful to the community so I decided to post it here. I hope you're cool with that (I tried to send a support ticket... no reply)
The website is: https://buyvmstock.com
Since many years I am a very happy BuyVM customer, but I have always struggled to find the stock for the product I wanted (LU location seems to always have very limited stock). To solve this problem I wrote a BuyVM stock notifier to send me an email every time a new stock for the product I wanted was posted. It served me quite well and I decided to make a public version of it.
Basically, you can select the products you want to be notified for, add your email and the website will automatically notify you as soon as a new stock is posted. Of course, if you don't need a notification anymore you can un-subscribe with a click. Moreover, you can always have an overview of which products are available across all the locations (LA, NY, LU).
Let me know if you have any feedback about that. I was thinking about implementing a Twitter bot posting for every new stock. Would you be interested in it?
Just a small disclaimer: as specified in the about page ( https://buyvmstock.com/about ) I have talked with Francisco before settings this thing up and he is totally cool with this project. Links contain a referral link to help me with the cost of hosting/mailing-lists.
Let me know you opinion!
Cheers!
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Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record
This week GitHub was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack. It thus established a new record. After few minutes the attack was mitigated by Akamai, who was called in by GitHub.
Interestingly, the attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attack.
Memcached servers that are exposed to the world offer a huge attack multiplier - for each byte sent to them with a spoofed sender's address, you can expect a 51 kbyte response sent to the faked address. As a result, attackers can achieve the effect of 51,000 times more powerful than if they attacked the victim's server directly, further hiding their identity.
You can read more here: https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/
...and here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/
What are your thoughts? Will you update your Memcached configuration now?
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Generator or Giant Battery Bank?
Every few years or so, our building's power gets shut down for routine maintenance. We have a Diesel generator in place to handle such outages. Power in HK is incredibly stable and reliable, and other than the odd brown out during severe weather conditions, there hasn't been a single un-planned outage in over 6 years.
As such we don't use it much and it kind of gets a bit neglected. As long as it's working, it will likley stay in place, but I'm wondering weather or not generators still make sense in the future (of course some places will have more justification than others).
Wondering if large battery banks are starting to make sense. Batteries are getting denser and cheaper. Flow batteries also look very promising as they apparently do not degrade (ever) and have extremely deep cycles (can fully charge and discharge without any adverse effects).
Anyone using very large battery banks over generators? What's your capacity at full load (in hours)?
Would end users have any less confidence in a host that primarily relied on large battery banks rather than a traditional generator?
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i am looking for a tiny vps that support netflix
Hello ! I'm looking for tiny vps .
Virt : KVM is prefect
Ram : at least 256mb
Disk : min 10gb
Bandwidth : min 300gb
Budget : $10/y
location:US west is better
any advise? thanks guys
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Spamassassin KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD
Hello, just to inform a interesting issue that we have detected witth a customer.
If you send emails using a TLD like:
.stream, .trade, .pw, .top, .press, .bid & .date
You have a high probability to become considered as SPAM.
The Spamassassin rule is named: KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD
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Open Source Ping/Stats
Hi Guys,
Is there a cheap pinging company that alerts someone when their server is down. Been looking at pingdom and datadog but they're both expensive (even though they offer great graphs etc). Was thinking of getting a dedi with online.net and running some software there (maybe opensource) that can ping my other servers. Is there a cheaper, just as good alternative than these two?
Thanks.
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Any tweaking guides for a 10gbe ubuntu box?
Hi guys,
Are there any tweaks or optimizations for 10gb eth, box is running 16.04 hwe kernel. I am able to hit around 2500mbps but not more.
Thanks
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Your Intel x86 CPU is Deeply Flawed (Meltdown/Spectre)
Thanks to @Infinity for sharing this...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
"It is understood the bug is present in modern Intel processors produced in the past decade. It allows normal user programs – from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers – to discern to some extent the contents of protected kernel memory.
"The fix is to separate the kernel's memory completely from user processes using what's called Kernel Page Table Isolation, or KPTI.
"The downside to this separation is that it is relatively expensive, time wise, to keep switching between two separate address spaces for every system call and for every interrupt from the hardware. These context switches do not happen instantly, and they force the processor to dump cached data and reload information from memory. This increases the kernel's overhead, and slows down the computer. Your Intel-powered machine will run slower as a result."
tl;dr you're going to get patched and will be trading up to 30% of your CPU performance in exchange for protection from a security flaw.
Not saying that's not the right choice, but I see rebellion and forks coming...you know, the "speed is critical, we won't upgrade past Linux 4.14..." crowd, or the "we're building a mining rig, so we want to use Dark Chester's non-isolation patches" tutorial people.
@WSS I think this is the equivalent of the introduction of the catalytic convertor. Shade tree coders?
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Was DMCA ignore hosts allowed here?
I thought it didn't allowed when I first read the rules. Was it changed recently?
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New category suggestion
How about adding a category for folks that want to share dedi/vps or have resources that they aren’t using but want to share? Kind of like a garage sale/swap meet/classifieds type of forum? Or would that be a bad idea?
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Devuan 2 beta released
Actually it's already been 2 week since release but i guess i am not the only one who missed it and it's about fucking time.
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/README.txt wrote:
Dear dev1rs
On February 14th 2015, Devuan unveiled a "pre-alpha" Valentine release of Devuan Jessie [1] just a few months after the Veteran Unix Admins declared their intention to fork Debian on November 27th 2014 [2]. That was the beginning of our collective journey. Now, three years later, Valentine's day has more love for the Devuan community. The long-awaited release of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta (minor planet nr. 3568) is here!
So what's new in Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta?
- OpenRC is installable using the expert install path (thanks Maemo Leste!)
- eudev has replaced systemd-udev (thanks Gentoo!)
- elogind has been added as an alternative to consolekit (thanks Gentoo!)
- Desktop users can choose among fully functional XFCE (Default), KDE, Cinnamon, LXQT, MATE, and LXDE desktops
- CLI-oriented users can select the "Console productivity" task that installs a fully-featured set of console-based utils and tools.
- A .vdi disk image is now provided for use with VirtualBox.
- ARM board kernels have been updated to 4.14 and 4.15 for most boards.
Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable is on the horizon
Although Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta has been powering thousands of servers and desktops for the last two years and been extensively tested by the Devuan community, it is being released as a beta because at Devuan we value involvement and feedback. So we want even more extensive testing of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta to confirm "when it is ready" to be called a Stable release.
Once Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable is released, our efforts will turn to Devuan 3.0 Beowulf (minor planet nr. 38086).
Download Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta
Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta at: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/ Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta is available for amd64 and i386 in the following flavours: - installable live CD/DVD - installation CD/DVD - NETINST CDROM - installable minimal live - qcow/vagrant images
ARM: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/embedded/README.txt
Virtual machines: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_beta/virtual/README.txt
Upgrade to Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta
Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta provides safe upgrade paths from Devuan 1.0 Jessie, Debian 8.x Jessie, Debian 9.x Stretch. Just follow the relevant instructions at: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-ascii https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/upgrade-to-ascii
Feedback (we love that!)
If you try to install Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta from a DVD or CD setup please test it offline (i.e., without a network connection and without a configured mirror). If something goes wrong please try it online (i.e., with a network connection and a configured mirror). And then please report your findings to us including the list of packages as given by
dpkg -l | gzip -9 > packagelist.gzand the output ofcat /var/lib/pam/session > pamconfig.txtPlease get in touch with us through one of the community channels listed below or on freenode #devuan-dev for real-time interaction.
Information and contacts
Web: http://www.devuan.org Forum: http://dev1galaxy.org BTS: http://bugs.devuan.org IRC: #devuan (freenode)
Journalists please note: this announcement of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta release is mainly for internal testing not for wide redistribution. An announcement for the Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable release will hopefully follow very soon.
happy hacking!
The dev1 team
[1] You can find an archive of the pre-alpha Valentine release message here: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180213.205150.929bbd85.en.html
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AMDFLAWS - Vulnerabilities and Backdoors in AMD CPUs.
Didn't see that news here, sorry if I missed it.
13 security flaws in AMD CPU. Seems rather fun:
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Is this any good?
Hi
Do the numbers below look good? This is Hetzner Cloud in Nuremberg.
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Ayy wildcard free ssl letsencrypt wowie :)
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579
Ditch capitalistic SSL issuers, join the leftie internets!
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limited special dedicated at ovh.de
just found this one:
https://www.ovh.de/dedicated_server/bare-metal-servers/sp-64-d.xml
in case someone else might be interested, seems to be available only on the german page ;-) (pricing on the german webpage includes german VAT)
direct order link:
https://www.ovh.de/bestellung/dedies.cgi?hard=154sp10
seems to be available from other order pages too, like:
https://www.ovh.co.uk/order/dedies.cgi?hard=154sp10
cheeeaaap I'd say. brace yourself for new ovh resellers coming, haha.
will report about delivery time and benchmarks later...
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OVH or Digital ocean or others for affordable UK dedicated servers
Hey all, I am new here and this is my first post. I am not really experienced with these things, I am just starting out so pardon my noob questions. Ok, so I am looking for a UK dedicated server service that offers up to 200+ ips , IPV4/ IPV6 and 1GBps. I came across OVH and Digital ocean (no surprise as they are some of the big ones) and I am having some problems making my mind up on if I should make my mind up on using either one of these or if there are other quality affordable services out there that can meet my demands. I would appreciate your suggestions based on your experience.
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Track website changes in logged in area?
So I take it there are a lot of online tools out there that can notify you if a website changes but none seems to be able to check URLs where you need to log in to see the actual site. For explanation: I wanna monitor when the courses of my University are available for signup as it is first come first serve. However the courses will appear throughout the day and in an area where you would have to be logged in in order to access which is why external trackers cant access it. I dont wanna hammer F5 either. Any ideas?
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