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Just because it isn't an illegal limitation on free speech doesn't mean it's not a limitation on free speech. Free speech is not exclusively a legal concept, it's also a social one. They're entitled to put whatever terms they want in their license. I'm entitled to call them dicks for their...

123systems is probably the only company in history to actually improve in quality when it was bought by CC/CVPS.

Ultimately I don't feel like the SLAs you see offered make much difference - downtime costs a lot more (in admin time or stress or lost business) than the little bit of SLA credit you get. Someone might argue that a company is more likely to have better uptime if their money is on the line, but...

To jump on the bandwagon of suggesting other options, vnstat will keep daily and monthly bandwidth usage totals and is dead simple to use.

Is it reasonable to call it "unmetered" if you have a network policy like this? It's not so much unmetered as "1mbit, but you can burst" (for example, for the Micro plan). You must be metering the usage somehow to enforce that policy.

I think a lot of the time the primary determining factor is finding an available domain, unfortunately. I don't do hosting myself but it's usually the limiting factor when I'm trying to name a project.

This is going to put a dent in the marketing efforts of US-based "cloud" companies selling internationally - they've been pushing the idea of non-US locations not just for lower latency but also for legal compliance (data protection etc.) and privacy issues, especially post-Snowden. For...

Mind if I ask why you're dragging this up again?

Hourly billing does present a different usage pattern though - for one thing, when people spin up servers on-demand it usually means they want to use a lot of a particular resource right then, affecting how hard you can oversell. Also if people can spin up new instances for a couple of...

https://www.mattslifebytes.com/?p=533 https://www.michael-p-davis.com/using-heartbleed-for-hijacking-user-sessions/ It's possible to hijack sessions on vulnerable servers - for example, someone provided proof that they were able to access my VPSBoard account that way. Perhaps it's a good idea...

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I heard Patrick throws kittens in wheelie bins.

Pretty sure UCEPROTECT have listed CC's whole AS in the past (although they've done that with others too, including OVH). That said they're a pretty shitty DNSBL from what I've seen and I don't get the impression many mailservers use them.

*cancels all SecureDragon services* :P

I understand what you mean, but I'm suggesting that the way I read the post, wlanboy was suggesting that it works inside an OVZ container: The entropy figures quoted after starting haveged only make sense compared to the initial OpenVZ numbers, and the conclusion only makes sense if you take...

I had assumed that, but @wlanboy's post seems to imply that haveged does in fact run and put entropy into the pool.

If the root user of any OpenVZ VPS can add entropy to the pool, would it be possible for one VPS to feed the pool a malicious entropy source and affect the security of other VPSes on the same node?

Chris's ego took up all the space.

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL214220 So much for GVH-Jon's pleas, they doubled it in size to a /15.

Is it just me or has there been a significant increase in the amount of shitposting on VPSB lately?