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It would mostly be a storage and computation server, so software raid is fine.  Right now my interest is towards future expansion for when my current 2x2TB server runs out of space, so I won't bother you with a quote request til that happens. But if you already had a posted price list (e.g...

bitmessage (bitmessage.org) looks interesting, and I've been wondering if vps hosts are likely to permit it.  bitmessage.ch is bitmessage running on a server. Certainly all SMTP traffic should be encrypted if possible.  The trouble is spam has pretty much killed email unless you're a huge...

1. Any disk upgrades available?  Preferably 2x4tb. 2. Any discount for just 1 ipv4 address?

At first it sounded like you wanted something like tripwire.  Maybe you do, depending on your application.

Watch out for NSA spies, lol: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

Reasoning: I need a temporary VM with high CPU usage for one week.  This high CPU usage is estimated to be about 3-4 hours about six times on the span of two-three-ish days (but could be longer). If you only really need 2-3 days (maybe spread across more than one session) uptano.com might look...

You need a dedicated server.  Amazon has what amounts to them, but will be ridiculously expensive.  You might look at uptano.com (single tenant VPS node, billed by the hour) which I've played with and which works pretty well, though a week on Uptano might cost as much as a month on OVH (or a day...

I suspect colo has a lot more DC operations hassle per server than 1000's of racks of identical, centrally managed dedicated servers.  The low cost dedi hosts are almost like VPS hosts in that the operations are heavily automated.  This isn't possible with colo where someone has to physically...

Wow, the e3-1270 server is almost 1.5x as expensive as the e3-1240 which is just a few percent slower and otherwise the same, it looks like.

Woo hoo, this seems to be working great.  Only minor snag I hit is that the Firefox password store didn't pre-fill the login form, I guess because the url changed (http to https).  I pasted it over and it should remember it now.  But we should probably all change passwords anyway, since the old...

Hetzner auction usually has some cheap low end dedis (prices vary): https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

Thanks, that's pretty impressive, unfortunately bigger than I can use anytime soon. :) Heh, Backupsy looks like a great service, but unless the storage is dirt cheap, I'm better off with a dedicated server since I occasionally like to actually crunch the data (multi-day stretches of 100% cpu)...

Thanks.  I'm slightly regretting missing this, since it looks like available offers from places like OVH actually seem to be getting worse, despite how disk costs have fallen.  I'm guessing though that adding the second processor might kick up power consumption enough to increase the colo cost. 

Wow, good deal, glad someone bought it before I saw it, so it wasn't there to tempt me.  Any idea how much would it have cost to keep hosting it at Cloudshards, as a personal storage server (i.e. 1 IP and modest bandwidth, not a VPS node)?  Are these SV.35 disks ok for general purpose storage...

Did you check and see that it failed to create the inetd.conf?  The grep error may have been the install script checking to see if there was aleady an entry, and failing (in this case) a little bit ungracefully.  I've never used micro httpd though.  If it's for a modern desktop pc (as opposed to...

Old school:  http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html I've been thinking of using something like that to serve a bunch of static javascript like googleapis that I currently block with adblock, so sites I like can still use the code, without google receiving the queries.  I haven't bothered wiith the 1x1...

As one of the more vocal supporters, I don't think it's terribly urgent, in the sense of "OMG drop everything and do it right now".  I think it's important as a general practice and as a statement about who we are.  But we've done without it for many months and a few more days won't make enough...

Wlanboy, ok, I see what you mean about those urls now, good point.  IMHO Gravatar should be shut off altogether, since it's invasive (receives referer urls of every page you view) and slows down page loading miserably.  I adblocked it ages ago and forgot about it.  It looks like there's a static...

I don't understand what you mean by that.  1) the path component of the url (i.e. the part after the hostname) is sent through the SSL connection, so it's encrypted, though in some cases the length in bytes might allow inferring it (turn off the SEO-ified url's would make the lengths the...

I voted encrypt everything.  At minimum, the login form target (that receives the user password, it may actually be an ajax target) should always be encrypted, even if encryption for the rest of the site is optional.  Sending passwords in the clear is no longer an ok practice. Added: if...