Generator or Giant Battery Bank?

March 9, 2018, 1:24 pm

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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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What are your thoughts/experience with servercheap.net?

March 11, 2018, 11:44 pm

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Hi guys I found servercheap.net and they seem okay their offer is good but I want to hear your opinions. I cannot find anything about DDoS protection and that is much needed. Also guys if you find similar offer with similar prices feel free to post them in the comments. Thanks in advance!

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Swapping RAM on NVMe and overselling?

March 12, 2018, 4:20 am

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Do any of you providers do this? Would the customer notice a difference on an already maxed out node?

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Server build question

March 11, 2018, 1:41 pm

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Does anyone know a place I can colo a tower for mc hosting?

I am building a

i7-7700k 500gb ssd 1050 ti gfx card 650w gold psu atx mid tower build case 16gb ddr4

I'm looking for a place to colo this need a 650w power outlet.

Does anyone know how much potentially I can rent this server out per month for?

I plan to start a small game hosting service not a company because I'm not ready for that yet. I just need a good network with ddos protection and a few ip's nothing major. I have a regular 9-5 so anything under $150 per month for colo would work. I've already spend about $1,500 building this so I want to keep cost pretty low monthly.

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Any UI/UX Designers here?

March 11, 2018, 11:43 am

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I have a small personal project/game I'm working on, and I'd love some input from a UI/UX designer. Free chatting/taking a peek and giving me your thoughts is much appreciated. If you're only taking on paid work, please PM me your rates and a portfolio.

It's just my attempt at a web app version of the Wikipedia Racing game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikirace

I just whipped it up, so it's not pretty.. but at least I got the major functionality working. I want to wrap it up in a pretty little sidebar and maybe eventually make it multiplayer as well.

Check it out:

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i am looking for a tiny vps that support netflix

March 10, 2018, 9:42 pm

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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

March 12, 2018, 9:27 am

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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

February 22, 2018, 11:01 am

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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?

March 13, 2018, 7:26 pm

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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)

January 2, 2018, 4:24 pm

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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?

EDIT: https://meltdownattack.com

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Was DMCA ignore hosts allowed here?

March 11, 2018, 6:37 pm

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I thought it didn't allowed when I first read the rules. Was it changed recently?

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New category suggestion

March 13, 2018, 11:38 am

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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

March 11, 2018, 3:06 pm

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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.gz and the output of cat /var/lib/pam/session > pamconfig.txt

Please 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

[2] https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/`

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AMDFLAWS - Vulnerabilities and Backdoors in AMD CPUs.

March 13, 2018, 2:50 pm

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Didn't see that news here, sorry if I missed it.

13 security flaws in AMD CPU. Seems rather fun:

https://www.amdflaws.com/

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Is this any good?

March 15, 2018, 3:28 pm

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Do the numbers below look good? This is Hetzner Cloud in Nuremberg.

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Ayy wildcard free ssl letsencrypt wowie :)

March 13, 2018, 11:30 am

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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

September 14, 2016, 3:00 am

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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

March 16, 2018, 2:21 am

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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?

March 16, 2018, 2:52 am

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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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