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    Alabama man gets $1,000 in police settlement, his lawyers get $459,000

    "Warren is now serving a 20-year sentence for striking the Hoover officer." yeah ok? go to jail for 20 years and tell me it'd be worth $1000 Edit: hell, it doesn't even say he wasn't fined in his sentence as well
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    KVM I/O question for VPS providers

    There's no single optimal storage format that works on all hardware (or even all RAID setups). Also you have to balance reliability vs I/O speed, for example you can enable writeback disk caching which usually speeds up disk operations, but depending on your filesystem there is possibility of...
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    LET Down?

    @D. Strout it's been going on and off for the last week.
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    Why are you testing on production?

    yolo it's just no fun otherwise..
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    Xen Security Vulnerability and Amazon is Special

    It's not just for big cloud companies, also need time for package maintainers to update, then all you need to do when vulnerability is released (at same time as packages) is upgrade. Seems like they have an exact time for people to check back too. Besides, probably Amazon and others support Xen...
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    Self-hosted Distributed Storage

    This one's also interesting, it's like btsync, doesn't need central server -- http://syncthing.net/
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    Self-hosted Distributed Storage

    How do you mean? Tahoe-LAFS is entirely designed to operate over the Internet, there are large "volunteer storage grids" that you can store files in for free even. A few distributed filesystems: glusterfs, moosefs/lizardfs, xtreemfs (xtreemfs is also specifically designed to handle WAN use...
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    Does your VPS provider install patches in your container in stealth?

    Presumably they only have automatic security updates (which, by the way, is an option that Ubuntu installer and possibly Debian as well prompts you for during installation from ISO). So security updates broke your VPS?
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    Do you use Bitcoin?

    We use Coinbase but I like Bitpay more. Coinbase's support is usually slow, and there were some issues which payment processor shouldn't have (like depending on options chosen and browser, there was and maybe still is bug with the Javascript-based payment page).
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    Luna Node Dynamic: OpenStack KVM VPS in Toronto, with hourly billing

    Luna Node Dynamic - dynamic virtualization platform (KVM) Luna Node Dynamic is an hourly billing virtualization platform featuring rapid virtual machine deployment, hourly billing, snapshotting capabilities, an API for automation, complementary minimal server monitoring / DNS hosting, and more...
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    Passwords and Storage!

    There's no AES-512... if you roll your own 512-bit scheme based on AES, you still can't just call it AES. Edit: besides, you'd still be transfering your data over SSL/TLS, which is most likely going to be using 256-bit or shorter symmetric encryption keys.
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    Passwords and Storage!

    No? Most symmetric encryption algorithms use 256-bit keys (Camellia too). AES-256 and Camellia-256 are widely used in SSL/TLS.
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    Control panels!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_hosting_control_panels http://www.webhostingtalk.com/wiki/List_of_web_hosting_control_panels
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    Passwords and Storage!

    splitice's approach seems solid; you might as well use an existing system like gpg: Encrypt = gpg encrypt, Decrypt = gpg decrypt, DetailKeyText/DetailKeyCrypt = plaintext/passphrase-protected PGP private key (and when encrypting, public key is used). Then let user have backup detailkeytext or...
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    File / Folder / User permissions regarding /var/www

    Having root own it is not insecure as it will still be executed by the web user (e.g. www-data) when the web server executes it (unless set uid for some reason is set, but most likely it's not).
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    Backup Network anyone?

    mcdonald's
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    How much bandwidth do you use per day?

              RX bytes:225171346 (225.1 MB)  TX bytes:1167066665 (1.1 GB)   So uh, probably around 50 GB a month.
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    VaporNode review

    VaporNode's quality and support are top-tier. I had a BDS Two with dual L5420 and 16 GB RAM from March 2014, with some extra IP addresses it was $71/mo. I accidentally ordered BDS One at first, and I was about to open a ticket to correct the order when they emailed me saying the BDS One was...
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    GluserFS Fuse Still Needed?

    Server doesn't need FUSE, but it does need NFS AFAIK.
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    New Cloud Hosting Summer Offer From Mothership1

    The website says it's a two-week trial with up to $5.00 credit.
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