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  1. drmike

    Using varnish as a http cache

    My question for low resource boxes is why even use Varnish?  You should be able to accomplish same functionality of static caching within your web server.  My choice these days, Nginx.  Nginx does more than adequately and the configuration is greatly simplified + only one daemon and config files...
  2. drmike

    Why swapping when there is free memory?

    Adjust your swapiness.  Comes default at 60.  I typically lower it to 10.  My personal workstations, I lower it to 0. Nothing cool or right about swapping when you have RAM available.  Unless you like disks turning and burning.  Yeah, the OS knows best, sure.  Value of 60 they use is...
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    Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers

      See you might have oversold (i.e. all buyers can't use all their resources at once), but you stop there at your ratio and observe the often idle resources. Others see that, and say, well, why stop at 3X, let's go to 5X  and up and up until things become truly bad. I think morally you get...
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    Wholesaleinternet $19 per Month - Server Grab Bags.. more stock!

    True.  That is concerning and proves people should read ToS and legalese before even considering a place. I know they have had high temps in their offlocation 'Shack facility in past year.  I believe they've built out more cooling capacity there.
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    Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers

    First, I am just loving this thread.  A lot of this is theory vs. reality and expectations of the buyer vs. fluff of the seller. Thanks @jarland and obviously none of this is about Catalyst.  If we could get you to school folks some the market wouldn't be how it is. Nope. Specified up front...
  6. drmike

    WHT Down

      Wait you have a girlfriend...?  and she knows what WHT is?  Interesting :)
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    WHT Down

      What happened that they lost premium and corporate members?
  8. drmike

    thread for buffalooed to investigate

      Well you folks should make all their accounts one account :) Rename them all to the same name like the Adam/Kevin CVPS move.
  9. drmike

    WHT Down

    WHT seems to be swimming in cash... More ads? Of course.  Why not?
  10. drmike

    BBB alternative for hosting industry

    New members pay an additional one-time enrollment fee of $50.
  11. drmike

    WHT Down

    And... it is back up :)
  12. drmike

    Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers

      Well,  I didn't inflate my usage in this scenario, except on disk.   No RAM, CPU or bandwidth use.  Purely disk.   Impossible for a provider to tell exactly what those file(s) are and any attempt to do such would rub me the wrong way / make me disinterested in their disregard for privacy. I...
  13. drmike

    Low Latency Networking Across USA

    Softlayer indeed has their own network with a bunch of POPs and public peering exchange use. They run a good operation.  You'll pay for it though (will with any company that anyone has recommended). Low latency from everywhere though? Hmm... Peering locations...
  14. drmike

    WHT Down

    Yeppers... It is down for me too.
  15. drmike

    SEO Consultancy

    +1 for @kris.
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    BBB alternative for hosting industry

      Any idea what the current/recent BBB rates are for annual membership?
  17. drmike

    Low Latency Networking Across USA

    The peering can or can't matter.  Depends on the provider and the upstreams. Low latency only exist in small geographic areas where providers are peered or upstreaming to an Internet Exchange.  New York is probably the best example of such a place, with multiple exchanges and good provider tie...
  18. drmike

    Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers

      I like the buffet example and comparison. There is a non relative part though in that every Chinese buffet I've ever been to: 1. Was using massively cheap ingredients 2. Was exploiting non citizen slave-like labor 3. Never is/was an all you can eat. To that point, I have some very large...
  19. drmike

    Reserving Disk Space you Purchased from the Oversold VPS providers

    Don't frown :)  Doh,  Iz a made me a type-o :) ShardHost.  It's finger typing memory, I swear.   Sorry about that mate.
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