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Close to 0.  I only use mobile data on rare occasions, to look up directions or check for an urgent email or the like.  I don't see how to use 10+GB unless you're streaming video or something.  I don't see any reason to use mobile data for something like podcasts.  The original concept of a...

Where do you get that 5 cent power?  Around here, 1 watt of power is $1 a year, approx, if you can get it from the power company.  In a data center if you're renting space, it's generally a lot more.

Hi Dacentec, is it possible to get the hard drives shipped out from these servers (RTO converted to owned colo), and how much does that cost?  What about putting new drives in?  Thanks.

I've been using debian on servers and fedora on desktops, but had been thinking of going to a debian desktop as well, though dunno what to make of the systemd brouhaha (mostly on the server side).  If I were more hardcore I'd use Gentoo.  More recently Guix and its parent Nixos have been...

Those Hetzner prices lasted most of the week but they seem to have figured out they were undercharging, so prices have crept steadily upwards since.  That i7-2600/16gb at 30 euro fixed price now enters the auction at 35 euro, the i7-3770 enters at 38 (instead of 31 fixed), but interestingly the...

No fees and no ads = no revenue = no sustainability = no thanks.  People who sign up for email and give out their addresses don't want the address to stop working when the operator gets bored.  I like mxroute.com's approach where you have to bring your own domain.  If you did it like that, it...

What about the shared hosting plans?  It almost makes more sense with them than with vps's.

Oh, you mean a thing for tipping people bitcoins/dogecoins on irc.  No that would be annoying and I wouldn't want it.  It's a vpsboard channel not a dogecoin channel.  By "tips" I thought you meant if someone on vpsboard asked "how do I set up openvpn" then someone could say "@bot openvpn" and...

Main thing is if it's a free service they will enroll 1000s of accounts and use each to the limit.  Forget about IP matching, they will use botnets.  Forget about captcha or confirmation to existing email, they have ways around that.  More free email services is the last thing anyone needs...

What do you mean by tips and soaks?  A bot that you can query for advice about things (they remember urls and similar info) can be useful.  Bots that speak on the channel without being specifically queried (i.e. by recognizing keywords in humans' conversation) are annoying.  The bot should also...

I dunno about mysql but MongoDB and Redis both have modes where they send updates to the slave and keep going without waiting for synchronization.  This gains speed by creating a small window for losing a few data items, that might or might not be tolerable depending on the application.

There is a subforum about running email services at emaildiscussions.com.  Overall it seems like a big hassle because of likely user expectations, abuse from outgoing spam, dealing with filtering for incoming spam, etc.  Spam filtering (e.g. with spamassassin) is in fact relatively cpu heavy. ...

I can't see it as a tablet add-on since it uses way too much power for USB OTG.  It's also far too powerful a computer to be intended as just an authentication token.  It's basically a raspberry pi in a usb stick form factor. 

I don't use CF but I thought the basic idea with these services is your monitoring (run by you or them) tracks which of your servers is up, and pokes CF's API if some of your servers fail, to take them out of the load balancing mix.

I remember now what one of the other benefits was.  OVH branded servers are apparently eligible for OVH's anycast CDN and load balancing scheme, but I've heard SYS is not.  That by itself made me hesitate a little bit about letting go of this server, since I've been interested in anycast high...

RAID 1 on two of the drives containing your live data.  System and temporary stuff and static files on the third drive: reinstall if it crashes.  SYS comes with 100GB of free ftp storage space, so use that to backup the non-mirrored drive.  Or if you're not running live databases, then just run...

It's a very powerful computer (Raspberry pi class, with A-series Cortex processor and something like 512MB of ram), that will supposedly cost in the $100 range.  I guess it's nice for something like that to exist, but I'd like something much cheaper and smaller and lower powered, with a realtime...

This host is at https://www.yourserver.se/ easy to find with web search but in general it's useful info to include in the review.

Nice! I notice there seems to be a pricing error for your 256mb ssd plan on your current site: https://my.crissic.net/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0 annual and semi-annual are listed at $12 when the outer page says $15/y.

Based on passmark it looks like a dual L5520 is roughly equal to a single e3-1230v1 or so in computational speed.  The e3 will have some newer instructions including AES-NI.  The L5520 is an actual server processor and can use ECC memory.  On the other hand the E3's memory is probably faster. ...