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This is silly.  EntropyKey is reasonably priced given its low volume nature, but a serious product of this sort has a security barrier around the RNG and a crypto processor inside the barrier, so the raw random bits in a crypto protocol are never visible to the host computer (which is treated as...

Tahoe sounds cool but not really that practical because of the high redudancy, the slow (compared to SATA) internet connections between nodes, and the necessarily not-so-great security of the underlying VPS's.  I keep thinking about how to do secure online storage and the answer I keep reaching...

I think the idea is that a govt agency looking to get backdoors added is more likely to target Intel (used by everyone) than some guy making those keys in his garage.  I suppose you could do some limited auditing by disconnecting the noise generator built into the key, and seeing if the output...

Yeah it's made by a FOAF of mine.  It's a clever product and I doubt there are backdoors.  However it would be more useful if it had crypto functionality.  There's that much point to a pure external RNG device.

The "order now" links go to completely different offers than the descriptions in the post.  if you select the "yearly vps" pulldown, the 128MB $15.50 offer is there but the 64MB is absent (i.e. not listed, doesn't say "sold out" or anything like that). Do you think of joining the Low End Spirit...

Nice offer, at least in intentions!   My main quibble: I don't like github because of their invasive policies (example: you have to log in under a single personal account, which means if you work for multiple companies that host with them, Github knows who you've been working for).  Gitlab might...

Where are you located in terms of time zone, and what hours are you ok with?

I was ok with the $35 upfront Vitelity deposit because I figured I was going to port a phone number or two to them, and they had a $15 or $20 porting fee at the time.  Now they port for free so at $1.49(?) a month for a phone number, I'm covered for a while.  I'm likely to get another number or...

Websearchingpro - thanks, blink looks promising.  I tried installing it on my Fedora 19 desktop and spent hours in dependency hell due to version mismatches etc. but I think I can get it working.  Or I might switch to Debian on the desktop which will hopefully make things easier. drmike - I...

Well the 3 euro OVH servers were the last straw, but OVH had a bad situation of selling servers for 30 euro/month in (say) 2011, that were a good deal at the time, but then selling similar servers for 20 euro in 2012, and having the 2011 customers switch plans instead of continuing to pay 30...

So I've got a voip account and phone number with vitelity.com and would like to make phone calls from my Linux desktop. I tried setting up Ekiga but there were some annoying obstacles and the program itself doesn't seem that great. Does anyone have a favorite FOSS VOIP client, and suggestions...

1. The 11 month payoff sounds really optimistic.  Even OVH with their $100M's of capitalization got themselves in a bad spot trying that.  The hw depreciates too fast.  I think 4 months or so is more normal for the budget sector, and less than 4 months for the higher end. 2. $150 for 256GB...

I wouldn't want a dedi with just one drive, but 2x 3tb at $30 sounds great.  I'm only a bit dubious because it's so cheap, I don't see how it can be sustainable.  If I pay for drives upfront can I buy them from you?  I.e. you'd ship them to me with my data on them.  I'd pay reasonable costs and...

Fran, I figured you knew about this and had decided that the math still worked out ok, but just in case: the Samsung 830 is about the most write-durable SSD that ever existed, except for high end enterprise drives.  It beat the Samsung 470 which was an SLC drive in endurance testing.  I've been...

These are awesome.  Reviewed here: http://vpsboard.com/topic/339-lowendspiritcom-from-inception-hosting/

Thanks!  It is a very bold move and I hope it works out.

Wait, you're gonna sell 256MB vps's with 30GB of pure SSD, for $3.50/month?  And you're going to do the same thing with KVM at $5?  That's just mindboggling.  I gotta ask what kind of SSD it is, and what kind of RAID setup if any.  Have you got the smartctl -a output?

This is a shared 100 mbit pipe between all those dedis?  Hmm. I don't think I want any of the dedis but if you want to let me park a box of my own, I might be interested.  It could be something real small, like a laptop with an external HDD.  I'd use a fairly large amount of inbound bandwidth...

Where does the hardware come from?  Have you purchased it or what?  The AMD 6200 seems especially odd: if you want an AMD multicore at all, it might as well be an 8350.  I agree that the i3-3220 single core performance is pretty good.

If you don't need a dedicated ipv4 address, you could get a lowendspirit vps with ipv6 and some ipv4 NAT ports.  They can put a virtual host on port 80 of a public ipv4 address too.