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ARM has the Neon multimedia extensions, same general idea as XMM though the details differ.  Might also be possible to encode with a GPU.  It sounds to me like LAME hasn't been optimized for the ARM, rather than that something is wrong with the ARM processor itself.  What are you trying to do...

You should encrypt your backups at the client side rather than using volume encryption, with a public key whose private part is offline.  If you've got a persistent key on the backup server you might as well not be using encryption.  Therefore you might as well use OpenVZ. I would think you...

I'm sure you are all revved to the max to hear that Alienlayer is having a relaunch.  I got a promotional email from them last night to that effect.  They announce a 30% discount code on their web site, but the email has a link (containing a bunch of hex numbers in the url) for a 40% coupon.  I...

That's interesting about the new cpu models but unfortunately they all have just 1 hard drive (no raid) so aren't really ok for storage servers.  There are some interesting new soyoustarts in Europe: http://www.soyoustart.com/ie/offers.xml They include a w3520 server with 2x2tb disk for 30...

Man I'm horrified.  VNC has been useful for KVM configuration and could be ok for occasionally poking things, but trying to get real work done on it sounds unbearable.  Maybe it's better with superfast internet.  Also it's usually unencrypted so you're sending all your passwords etc. in the...

Bought another 128MB CVZ plan, my third Ramnode VPS so far.  50GB of disk for $13.92 a year is unbeatable.  Thumbs up!

I don't think it's a real 4284.  That's just what vmware is simulating.

Congrats!  Next thing I want to see is some storage plans ;-). 

I suspect it's one of their "hosting" servers (http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/hosting/) and the different cpuid in /proc/cpuinfo is a virtualization illusion, but who knows.  Here is /proc/cpuinfo: processor    : 0 vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD cpu family    : 16 model        : 2 model...

Server with live data and one SSD, no RAID?  Uh oh.

Well, I renewed it another month, I got a renewal notice saying expiring today (I had gotten confused and thought I had a few days left), renewed, and during the renewal process saw a status indicator saying the vps had already expired.  It looks like it was shut down and restarted, whether...

Hmm, mine didn't reboot, it's now been up for 6 days.

Yes, that's the one.  I think it's best to use "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" for sending such mailings.  Alternatively, use vpsboard, your own site, an irc channel, etc. to inform people of the new offer, instead of email.  Maybe I was just unlucky and happened to get an email within a few days...

I signed up a few days ago and today got a somewhat spammy email about a new product the host is considering offering.  Most providers don't send out such promotions and I think it is best that way.  Use vpsboard instead, that's what it's for.

It may be cheaper to use a single drive kimsufi and replicate the mysql to a vps, if redundancy for the database is is your RAID concern.

You know how HTTPS is HTTP under an TLS encryption layer, and HTTPS usually runs on port 443 while HTTP uses port 80?  STARTTLS is the more modern way of optionally encrypting.  You use just one port, i.e. port 25 in the case of SMTP.  You connect insecurely, and then to enable TLS you send a...

Thanks.  I see reboots on May 11 and May 15.  I wonder what was going on.  My vps is going to expire in a few days.  I might toss $3 just to keep it another month and see how well it holds up.

I haven't tried it but I've exchanged email with the vendor a couple times.  There is also a much smaller (but less powerful, using an 8051-derived cpu) board that might become available at some point: https://beta.fastmail.fm/mail/Inbox/?u=c5044119

Are the past few months about the cPanel built in email server?  How well does that work?  Are there docs around?  Does it support STARTLS, DKIM, etc.?  I've been wondering about this.

I haven't paid close attention but I think this VPS has rebooted at least twice since I got it less than a month ago.  Today I got an OVH robo-email saying their monitoring had detected downtime, but the other time I didn't hear anything.  It's kind of interesting that they have notifications at...