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    Who was your first VPS provider?

    First leb was a VPStree box, with, if memory helps, 64mb ram. And that was enough to run wordpress. First 'serious' provider was Linode. And i'm still a customer of theirs
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    Aruba Cloud: Choosing the correct size

    it depends on the server. Some have been (wrongly?) limited. Try to open a support request. This is my UK server: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.07431 s, 518 MB/s   :~# bash bench.sh...
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    Aruba Cloud: Choosing the correct size

    if you need more info, i'm a long time user of theirs, and in direct contact with their staff. And *NOT* accepting the free credit they offered to be an evangelist on some forums. At least not at the moment. So all the services i have are paid from my own pocket. That said i have 6 arubacloud...
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    1GB RAM/20GB SSD/2TB traffic in UK/FR/DE/IT/CZ for 12eur/year

    Found a topic abut this offer on let, bought one, quickly tested it and works fine.  Virtualization is VMWARE. And you have 6 different datacenter to choose. I tested the Italian one and it ain't so good, Prometeus is much better located. I guess the best are UK, France and Germany. Offer...
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    is OpenITC / XenVz about to fail?

    Hi Sean,  i'm happy you're still rocking. OpenITC was, and hope still is, an excellent provider. Thanks for taking your time and answering my post. My issue is not with low-end support queue, in fact i think is a great solution to offer for-pay priority incident support. I don't like paying for...
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    is OpenITC / XenVz about to fail?

    Hi guys, i need you help ans some info about a provider i love. I'm a happy customer of OpenITC/Xenvz for 4 years, but i'm having problems with them lately. irst they did not invoice my vps this year because i live in Europe and they are still not EU VAT compliant. That was 5 months ago, and...
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    Mount Cloud Storage as Local FS (Linux or Windows)

    not slow at all root@hf3:~# dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hubic/default/Documents/test2 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 116.445 s, 9.2 MB/s
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    vpsBoard Top Providers of 2014 voting.

    Among the many good providers i'm using i decided to divide my votes among one European and one American: Prometeus - 4 points SecureDragon - 1 point
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    What is everyone doing for IRC?

    Just curious, why everyone uses screen and not tmux?
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    BuyVM announces Europe, Anycast IP's, Floating IP's, & Bandwidth pooling!

    routing problems with OVH for filtered IP still not fixed: traceroute to 107.189.0.1 (107.189.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  * * *  2  gra-g1-a9.fr.eu (178.33.103.229)  2.011 ms  2.223 ms  2.200 ms  3  37.187.36.47 (37.187.36.47)  2.987 ms  2.970 ms rbx-g2-a9.fr.eu (37.187.36.5)...
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    BuyVM announces Europe, Anycast IP's, Floating IP's, & Bandwidth pooling!

    And strange results from OVH (France - Gravelines) Filtered - 198.251.84.1 -> 104ms Unfiltered - 107.189.0.1 -> 20ms traceroute to 192.251.84.1 (192.251.84.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  * * *  2  gra-g2-a9.fr.eu (178.33.103.231)  0.635 ms  0.901 ms  0.881 ms  3  * * *  4  * * *  5...
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    BuyVM announces Europe, Anycast IP's, Floating IP's, & Bandwidth pooling!

    two more tests from Italy: Residential Italy (PTP -Ping To Prometeus- is about 15ms): Filtered - 198.251.84.1 -> 58ms Unfiltered - 107.189.0.1 -> 44ms DC in Milano: Filtered - 198.251.84.1 -> 32ms Unfiltered - 107.189.0.1 -> 31ms
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    Secure Dragon OpenVZ 128 MB (New York)

    Time for an update from me too. I'm proud to be one of the KuJoe's users since june 2011, and i just paid for an additional year till the end of 2015. I used their Xen and OpenVZ VPS. Joe is one of the most honest, upfront guy i met in this industry. He's always been open and frank when issues...
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    Question regarding OVH spam filtering and providers that use them.

    I don't know if you yo use ASSP v1 or v2, but if you need i have startup and munin script to manage v1. Regarding VPS use any classic 1.99 ovh will do. And if i can offer a small suggestion, since i do knwow assp and its limits very well, why don't you try haraka. And of course, if you use...
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    Google Announcement

    nslookup -type=TXT google-public-dns-a.google.com (and follow the link)
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