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I know I could probably find a dozen posts from the past 2 years (if I cared enough to do a search) where he admitted in the past that he was operating at a loss and providing unsustainable services. TL;DR heard this same song before...yawn

One more small tip :) : use php5-mysqlnd instead of php5-mysql when you install Observium The advantages of using php5-mysqlnd instead of the stock php5-mysql: (from the MySQL site): The mysqlnd library is highly optimized for and tightly integrated into PHP. The MySQL Client Library cannot...

Observium A few suggestions for much better performance and lower server loads (and an optional tip for using SSL)... #1  use php5-fpm and apache2-mpm-event instead of libapache2-mod-php5  and apache2-mpm-prefork #2 use nginx as a front end proxy for apache and also install memcached a...

thread I started on LET November 2013: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/16414/ecatel-gets-their-ass-handed-to-them-in-court copy of the court documents .pdf, (in Dutch) for the court case referenced in that thread: That is just one of several legal cases and police actions taken against Ecatel...

If you've watched their Spamhaus listings for the past few months, you'll see they've graduated from being a haven for snowshoe spammers to also being a haven for malware botnet controllers....lots of botnet SBLs in the past few months. Cleantalk showed a huge increase in web threats (comment...

Question 1: Is this an example of the "quality" of the writing a customer can expect? "MyServerPlanet Ltd has a top of the line data center in the heart of downtown LA with an all-time connectivity from one Wilshire." "MyServerPlanet Ltd has brought affordable web hosting plans for both for...

I'm starting a new topic: PIES: freshly baked or half eaten?

I can find you a multitude of cultures (with modern Western culture being one of the worst offenders) that hypocritically state it is wrong to judge on appearance, and yet "Lookism" is a dominant feature of the culture (i.e. people who have physical traits that the culture considers to be...

A bird's paint can be very important, and that "paint" sometimes can be the difference between life and death.

#! The End.  CrunchBang distro development stops.

Unprofitable unless you're French and receive government energy subsidies for using renewable energy sources and then selling an i3/i5 for 15-20 euros can be profitable.. :P Google 'Kimsufi and plex'..

Slightly off topic, or maybe not...what is ARIN's policy when the company (a Wyoming LLC) that is listed as the owner of an ASN with 21,504 IPs is marked by the state as "inactive - administratively dissolved (tax)" for failure to pay its taxes?  Company in question has been listed as inactive...

Great: HostVirtual  <--best VPS/cloud provider in NYC, great support and network, 4GB/$80, Xen NFOServers <--real full dedicated cores, great network Internap, 4GB/$49.99, Xen Good: Linode (NJ) 4GB/$40, Xen RamNode 4GB/$56, KVM Vultr (NJ) 4GB/$35, KVM <--only 2 cores, but 2 of their cores...

My experiences and likelihood to head the other way now when I see a provider using OnApp are similar. The TL;DR is: the product has great features, but OnApp needs to stop releasing beta quality code as production, and they need to iron out the bugs BEFORE they release new versions

Online.net assigns a /48 per customer account and the customer is then free to allocate it however they want among all of their servers.

Basically the same method here.  Company "Internet" gets backed up to 3 cheap no-raid dedicated servers at 3 different providers and company "intranet" gets backed up to 3 other cheap no-raid dedicated servers at 3 different providers. My personal files these days get duplicated to RunAbove...

Today's Miscellaneous hosting world links worthy of a cesspit: 1. New Jersey hosting mogul beloved by many of you sues the gubment (I'll leave it up to you to do a google search...first name is Dave) 2.  Italy's largest host sponsors a racing team (I made it through less than 2 minutes of this...

The companies I listed earlier are all well established and owned by companies that have been in business from 10 years (CloudVPS's parent) to 21 years (Atlantic.net, Aruba.it/ArubaCloud).  No bedrooms or 1-man shows in the lot, but a few company owned datacenters, and a couple of hosting...

Linode's top plans offer far more resources than DigitalOcean's top plan: DigitalOcean 64GB RAM, 640 GB SSD, 20 cores, 9TB bandwidth, 1Gbps,  $640 Linode 64GB RAM, 1536 GB SSD, 20 cores, 20TB bandwidth, 40 Gbps in/8 Gbps, out  $640 Linode 96GB RAM,  1920GB SSD, 20 cores, 20TB bandwidth, 40...

Netherlands: CloudVPS.com and Leaseweb Germany: Bradler & Krantz (GetKVM.com) and Hetzner Zurich to Milan is only 279 km/173 miles...less than half of the 620km/385 miles distance from Buffalo to New York City... just sayin'  (plug for Prometeus/IWStack and SeFlow/CloudFlow). I'd have a much...