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  1. arussell

    Gaming

    I still play a fair amount of Xbox and try to do Twitch streams when I remember. Anyone here on Xbox Live / Twitch?
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    Plesk Sold to Oakley Capital for $105M

    Having seen their plans at WHD.global a couple months ago it seems like they want to move away from small hosters and focus on the really big players, companies like GoDaddy, 123-reg, etc.
  3. arussell

    Introduction thread

    Hi all, I'm Aaron, Managing Director & CTO over at File Sanctuary. Long time lurker, but this new lease of life for vpsBoard has given me the nudge I needed to get more actively involved. :) I'm also now in the IRC channel as aaronr.
  4. arussell

    Hey MannDude! How was the rebirth behind the scenes...?

    Good to know there's a way to get data out of IPB safely (and mostly intact!)
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    Looking for Windows 7-10 VPS

    Technically you're not supposed to be able to get desktop versions of Windows (e.g. 7, 10) on a VPS due to the way that Microsoft's SPLA licensing works, but you can enable the Desktop Experience role on Windows Server and it's basically the same. We support this under Windows Server 2016...
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    vpsBoard's Future

    Welcome back! :)
  7. arussell

    Who was your first VPS provider?

    Ours was way back in 2001 with a UK based company called DSVR who had a very interesting custom precursor to OpenVZ based on Linux vservers if I remember correctly (it was a long long time ago!).
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    Should service providers be able to refuse service based on country?

    It's worth running orders through some kind of automated fraud checking. We've used MaxMind for years for this sort of thing. If you use WHMCS then there's built in support for this. It filters out the vast majority of fraudulent orders (though no automated system is going to be perfect).
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    Looking to change Domain Need Advice

    Another vote for the "other" category here. If your brand could potentially be confused with another brand that should be a big red flag. It seems the Hudson part is the bit that's causing the confusion, so other alternatives that keep that part of the name aren't going to be a great solution to...
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