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Monster CPU's for sure -- and I agree with the above, enterprise, or whatever that is these days, will grab these for super busy machines to replace, in hopes that the new CPU will relieve their IO issues. Otherwise, prolly be a couple year, 1.5 at earliest, that we may* see someone selling VM's...

Thanks for clearing that up @Nick_A. To be honest, I once checked a trace to your network, and was quite concerned that I saw "corexlayer" hops in the mix for Ramnode, because of my previous experience with Zeneva. Also when I looked at the whois of the IP ranges, I was wondering how related you...

Only used a zyxel on a few occasions - one was way back in the day, which I barely remember, and then a modem I had from my ISP recently. The recent experience ended with me having to get another modem, as the c1000 didn't have or didn't play nice with ipv6. Otherwise, I would possibly look into...

Wish my IPv6 link was better than my IPv4 with Centurylink - I am in Albuquerque, and it backhauls everything to LA over IPv6, but it seems that over IPv4 I go through Denver mostly, or sometimes other more direct routes. I stopped using the IPv6 on CL after about 6months, as I was kinda getting...

Mine is HW, and the card has 1gb FBWC, which is probably why it runs kinda speedy.

KVM virtual machine on an lightly used host machine. 4-disk raid10,no ssd or ssd cache.   dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.48229 s, 724 MB/s

CVPS and affiliates can attempt an LEB takeover, but I don't think I would be fooled, and have slowed down my VM purchases over the past year. To be honest, I have to check, re-check, and then sleep over buying a VPS now, as I am not sure if it's a real provider, or just another pump-n-dump...

Not surprised, and actually glad to see that no other people would have to go through what I and others had to go through with this provider. 

To be honest, I only played in the market once, and really wished I had bet large. I took some buffet advice and bought some blue chips shares during the "great recession", when companies like Tyson Foods was at like 5.80, GE at 8.80, and ford at like 2.15 -- If you look at those companies today...

Cash is so much easier to use, and I don't have to worry about anything happening after, as the sale is done, closed. I was taken for about 3k in 2008-2009, and since I hate filling out police reports to get my money back, I decided that cash was the only way to go. Since then, I have not had a...

I noticed some timeouts coming out of a monitoring system I have at FH last night, but had no idea there was a DDoS  - was just thinking nagios flipped out or the machine had a blip, but recovered from timing out shortly after. This morning as I am working with a client on a Linode(DFW) of his...

Hitachi Sata drives take the "most failed" prize with me, replacing one about once a quarter on 3 year old machines I admin. Had good experience with WD black sata disks in zfs arrays, with pretty good IO and no failures. One day recently we decided to upgrade that array to 3tb Seagate disks and...

Used to, but way too much hassle and I would rather find it online cheaper and sent to my door with no additional hoops to jump through. I used to shop at Fry's Electronics, but it seemed like every sale was a rebate, so I stopped going in there.

Part of Switch SuperNAP is a SuperPrice tag I contacted them for a small project, just needed a cabinet for a customer, and they quoted me 4k one time sign up(deposit etc) and 1500/month - this was for one thermal cab as they call it, and up to 100Mbps connection on their blend, with 15 amps AC...

I had all of the above happen with Zeneva/Tim, and the only reason I could get my equipment back, was because I knew the staff at the dc from other data centers in the Vegas area(small world, don't burn all your bridges). My story: Zeneva had an offer on WebHostingTalk at the start of 2013 that...

Although it may go over budget, I would say to check out Ebay for used Proxim products. I have setup unlicensed point-to-point (line of site of course)between buildings that were about 1/4 of a mile away from each other, and was happy with the ease of usage and stability. The link was rated at...

Amazing - only what, a couple of months, and already calling it quits on this brand? Let's hope that he will not be dropping his offers here or anywhere else for a very long time(till he grows up). 

Bacula is a "file-level" backup program -- so it will go through a file system on a configured client machine and backup directories that you need(specify in server config). With bacula, you can then later on, use it to restore "etc" from a backup 6 months ago(depending on your config) to a new...

Bacula has been my favorite for the past few years, and before then I would rsync to a network share(messy), but didn't really rely on it for anything important.

Good help is always hard to find(heard that line for about 30 years) -- it is though,but hopefully you can ask the right questions to get the applicant to give you an idea of what they really want. For me, I have interviewed many folks for system admin positions, developers, tech support, and...