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  1. bauhaus

    Free Hosted Ghost

    Yeah, I unplugged that thing after like a 2 hour of testing. I consider myself a half decent linux user, but it is quite cumbersome to install and resource hungry. Ghost as a simple blogging platform can be nice but it needs to be rethinked at the back end. Right now is more popular just because...
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    Running a FreeBSD server with jails

    Try pkg or pkgng, not quite sure wich one is.
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    Do you think brands are important in the VPS market?

    ^This.   If it is important? Sure it is. More in this industry where the product is very homogeneous and there is a continuous struggle for positioning in the consumer's mind. Positioning is the key here.   A brand has tangible and intangible properties and in a market where there are very...
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    The pets thread

    Nice to know. In my neighborhood you can see several types of birds, but I like a white owl that often scares me to death when flying in the middle of the night. It is impossible to hear it until is practically over your head. Easy. Give him one of your guns :) Seriously, it feels awful when...
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    The pets thread

    Hmmm, are you stealing other people pets? Suddenly you have a gorgeus gray cat. Suspicious. Starting tin foil thread :P
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    The pets thread

    Sorry, I'm really bad with birds, what kind of owl is that?
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    The pets thread

    Hahahaha, I love the Twinky vs Miepie look contrast. It is like: Ohai vs GTFO. Sorry for your lost.
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    First step: Geo database

    You lost me at the Haversine formula :P Interesting stuff as always. In the past I have used this database http://www.geonames.org/export/ It is free with a common creative license. This one for USA http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm at least is free. And this...
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    Nightly backups enabled at BuyVM Las Vegas!

    I just laughed so hard. My bet is on you @Francisco, don't give up :)
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    Nightly backups enabled at BuyVM Las Vegas!

    Indeed. Very easy to say, difficult to implement correctly and successfully. I'm no expert, but it is possible. As you say, what you need to consider is that the DB is temporarily locked to create a backup of it.    The difficult part is how to do it from outside a container. So you know...
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    Nightly backups enabled at BuyVM Las Vegas!

    As Francisco says, Linode might be using LVM snapshots. As for DO 'the true cloud hosting ' you need to shutdown your vps to take an snapshot. Looking forward to see the BuyVM kmv snapshot solution.
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    ColoCrossing / VSNX Starts it's Hostile Takeover of the LOWEND VPS Market

    Suddenly March 2015 makes sense. Maybe his plan is to bankrupt the entire lowend market using price dumping, or at least kick out a few players. I know it sounds crazy, but heck, they look so confident about it, and we all can dream, right? Maybe also explain the IP hoarding. EDIT: Tinfoil ahead :P
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    100TB a month challenge

    You should thank us all. You welcome :)
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    Mass drive failings linked to accidental gas (fire suppression) release in Sydney data centre

    Consumer and enterprise grade HDD's are not completely sealed. The hermetically sealed are used in space research, the military field and in extreme environments and are quite expensive. The closest to these hard drives is the new one manufactured by WD 6TB filled with helium and fully sealed...
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    Running a lightweight GUI on your vps

    I'm not a LXDE fan, I just mentioned because if you are using a Desktop Environment for you remote desktop, LXDE is more lightweight than XFCE. Now if you choose OpenBox as a Window Manager and keeping XFCE without xfwm4 that is a winning solution. Of course, the differences between xfwm4 and...
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    Running a lightweight GUI on your vps

    Your tuto is great as always @wlanboy, but LXDE or OpenBox are more lightweight than XFCE as window manager. Personally, I like the OpenBox+XFCE approach in this type of scenario.
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    Paypal Alternative Payment Processor for Latin American Customers?

    Payu-Latam have a WHMCS module and it covers the biggest countries.
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    lowendspirit.com goes 503

    Still getting 503 from www.lowendspirit.com. lowendspirit.com is not loading at all, just "waiting for..." I test the site from 05:00 to 05:30 EST, only one time the site was up.
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