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Yeah, that part stood out for me too. They actually say that they got legal advice and ethics approval, when I would've thought that either would've crapped their pants at the idea:

I don't know where they're physically located, I don't have numbers but it certainly 'feels' like local SSD storage in normal use. But I was just pointing out that, since they use the ethernet interface, and as you pointed out they have greater density than the Vias (it's 12 per 2U chassis, but...

Their stated speeds aren't hard limits - you can burst to the full gig, but if you use a lot more than that continuously they may tell you to stop it or cancel your service. The 2 euro servers didn't have the 200mbit thing, the guaranteed bandwidth line was blank on their description page. I...

They come with 100GB of FTP backup space in a geographically separate datacentre too.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/ Amazon's Glacier is cheap (1 cent per GB per month) but it comes with long waits to retrieve data, and retrieval costs can jump quite high if you pull a lot of your data at once (like...

Very plausible? Almost all of those stories come from people I wouldn't trust to run a clean network.

For anyone bumping into this thread through Google or similar, it's a good idea to read this thread before buying:

There are plenty of businesses coloing for purposes other than running a dedi provider.

Crissic offered ridiculous pricing. Now that Quadra bought it it's clear that pricing will be stopped at some point in the future, since the customers are worth less than the IPs they're using.

You typoed cloud as 'could', both in the text and in the link :P

RHEL7/CentOS 7 and Debian 7 will most likely keep supporting their packages of PHP 5.4 until those distro releases reach the end of their life cycle (RHEL7 doesn't end security support until 2024). Although obviously the backporting gets more limited as time goes on, there will still be security...

At least you need to opt-in to OpenDNS to see it though - unlike when Verisign tried to do it for the whole .com and .net TLDs with Site Finder in 2003. I'm surprised they didn't try that again later.

rsnapshot can be made less painful on btrfs filesystems by using btrfs snapshots - this page has some details on how to do it. If you're not enough of a masochist to run btrfs and remotely competent, it'd be very simple to swap that for zfs snapshots I'm sure. Snapshotting takes away a bunch of...

The only true compute cloud is a Raspberry Pi tied to a helium balloon. Seriously though, there are multiple competing definitions of "cloud", and then a whole lot of marketing intentionally muddying the waters. Is it hourly billing, or Software as a Service, or utility computing, or on-demand...

In theory, since the same data is replicated across two different drives, you should be able to read from them both at the same time to double your speed. In practice it depends on the implementation (software or hardware). Linux mdraid will, for example, spread read requests across the two...

Even though I wrote one of the posts talking about when whichever is appropriate, I have to agree. 64-bit is the standard - all the x86 family hardware that you could possibly even consider running today has support for x86-64, sensible modern 64-bit distros have the ability to run 32-bit...

Getting rid of the unsophisticated majority of automated attackers makes it easier to spot real trouble. Reducing log noise does add security.

Lies, everyone knows Fran's already married to his work.

I get that you're sad that you're left holding on to shitty domains that nobody wants without a Google Apps account attached to them, but you're mad if you think you're going to make any more sales to anyone with half a brain.