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    Choopa sends out Vultr to drown in the DigitalOcean

    Are the nodes filling up yet? Hard to tell by the tests and benchmarks
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    What's the difference between DigitalOcean and other VPS companies?

    DO is not comparable to AWS. DO is targeted cheap VPS for "developers" not business/corporate customers. Reminds me of slicehost IMO there's only one company that bridges the gap between DO and AWS - Linode. Read their nextgen blog posts especially on the network
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    Choopa sends out Vultr to drown in the DigitalOcean

    Can we put this into industry news?
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    Running your own failover DNS setup

    Nice work! Your going to want to run the curl checks at least every minute via a cron job. Also keep in mind your dig's can be cached so it can get a bit more complex. I do things slightly different in bash and only call an API when action is needed (ie server goes down) Cloudflare has many...
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    I Have a Business Idea for a New Type of VPS...But No Cash.

    Cloudflare is essentially running a RAM based OS (pxe booted)
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    Whatever happened to Xen?

    Seems to be working out pretty well for Linode
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    What Backup Software Do YOU Use?

    Usually Duplicity or s3cmd
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    To Phone or not to Phone

    Obi is using XMPP which the Goog plans to switch off. Obi isn't obsolete as there's plenty of VOIP/DID providers for cheap and GV will still forward anyway
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    Monitors and RasPis

    yes, 2tb drive attached and synced to S3. Works perfectly
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    Monitors and RasPis

    30" monitors?
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    DO not scrubbing disks?

    I'm curious what they implemented all of a sudden... "Additionally, we've re-engineered the way we're provisioning disks and access to previously written data is no longer possible."
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    Big RAM VPS - who actually uses them and for what?

    Is intentionally tmpfs'ing necessary? If the file is "HIT" enough, and you have free RAM available, Linux should cache it to RAM automatically.
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    BuyVM announces free backups for all 256MB+ OpenVZ plans!

    so you're choosing not to use compression or dedup?
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    BuyVM - Leaving Buffalo Early

    Fran: How many physical boxes you have in Buffalo?
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    Market Research: New Jersey KVM VPS

    Clifton must be telx on delewanna ave
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    ChicagoVPS global password reset? Hacked again?

    @CVPS_Adam thanks for the detail. So you send all post data offsite to a third party including usernames, passwords, and personally identifiable information?
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    ChicagoVPS global password reset? Hacked again?

    There's zero way you can be sure they only got 3 percent? No logs would give you enough info
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    Review of the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

    Anyone use this is their primary router for VPS hosts? Can you make a pair of these highly available?
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    How to secure your wordpress blogs

    Install wordfence for scans and notifications. It does it all
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    East Coast DDOS Filtering

    @francisco I assume the ddos IPs can't be used with other providers (linode for example). Ever consider a reverse proxy service?
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