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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:For some comedy, a BuyVM $15/year vps: What am I missing here, because that really looks pretty comparable 
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eightysixed posted:What am I missing here, because that really looks pretty comparable Its funny because its way better than I expected it to be for basically no money. I wrote the first sentence expecting it to be really slow and it ended up almost identical to or better than all the more expensive 1-cpu VPS (and way faster than EC2 micro). Of course the reason it is so cheap is because you only get about 99.8% uptime and random reboots. But at least they have never lost my entire VM or backups (screw you DigitalOcean)
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Apr 10, 2013 17:44
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eightysixed posted:What am I missing here, because that really looks pretty comparable 1:04 instead of 1:49
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Apr 10, 2013 17:44
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Bob Morales posted:1:04 instead of 1:49 Yea, but still thats $15 per year as opposed to $20 per month 
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Apr 10, 2013 18:30
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eightysixed posted:Yea, but still thats $15 per year as opposed to $20 per month The same VM is faster the second time because it's caching the files - nothing to do with the cost or comparing VM's
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Apr 10, 2013 18:47
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Here's a couple more data points. The first is an Azure extra small VM, the second is running in under Win8 Hyper-V on my workstation here in the office. Both VMs are 1 CPU and have 768MB RAM. model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4171 HE stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2094.707 cache size : 512 KB real 1m49.463s user 1m37.418s sys 0m6.800s model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3530 @ 2.8GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2792.935 cache size : 8192 KB real 1m10.497s user 1m3.692s sys 0m6.072s
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Apr 10, 2013 23:13
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I'll play too. I've got a recently upgraded Linode 1024. It's located in Dallas.code:
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Apr 11, 2013 02:39
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I am in the market for reseller hosting. I am finally all done with Bounceweb (I had a large credit to use up) and have been unab,e to access anything twice in the last 2 days. It was good / cheap whilst it lasted. I have about 60 websites (mainly wordpress installs) and am looking to add some web app hosting so looking for something with some headroom. A friend recommended http://www.uk2.net/reseller-hosting/ as its "unlimited" and 25 per month (if you buy 24 months in one go) and it includes WHMCS in that too... Can i do better? Fed up with poor uptime but need decent specs too. I would love to go to a Goon host and have a cheap package with Lithium but their big package is not cheap.
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Apr 11, 2013 12:31
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thegasman2000 posted:I would love to go to a Goon host and have a cheap package with Lithium but their big package is not cheap. you must have been looking at their VPS plans, not reseller packages. Check again
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Apr 11, 2013 13:29
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eightysixed posted:you must have been looking at their VPS plans, not reseller packages. Check again You are correct! Moving is a pain in the rear end as Bounceweb has disables backups... FFS.
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Apr 11, 2013 15:41
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thegasman2000 posted:I would love to go to a Goon host and have a cheap package with Lithium but their big package is not cheap. thegasman2000 posted:You are correct! How else are they supposed to oversell their servers if they don't disable resource intensive backups? 
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Apr 11, 2013 15:53
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My wife has a website, the domain is through godaddy (hosting is elsewhere). Because her old, saved credit card number isn't good anymore and we didn't see the warning emails, her domain expired and so we got the parked/expired page. 30 minutes ago I paid the renewal and I've gotten the confirmation email - how long until her site (and more importantly email) comes back up? Minutes? Hours? There's nothing I have to do through the hosting company, right? We're just waiting for the DNS poo poo to resync? Edit: Nevermind, it just needed a couple hours to get right. It's back now. jackpot fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Apr 11, 2013 15:58
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mooky posted:How else are they supposed to oversell their servers if they don't disable resource intensive backups? Yeah they just expained in my ticket that its to stop over loading their servers... but they can provide a backup for $10 or $2.50 per GB, whichever is greater... I only want to move away. Is there another way for me to get my whole WHM and sites moved over?
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Apr 11, 2013 16:03
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thegasman2000 posted:Yeah they just expained in my ticket that its to stop over loading their servers... but they can provide a backup for $10 or $2.50 per GB, whichever is greater... I only want to move away. Is there another way for me to get my whole WHM and sites moved over? If your host will not allow you access to backup your files and databases, your only other option is to FTP your files and use phpmyadmin to export databases. Unfortunately, there is really nothing you can do if they refuse to provide you access to your backups.
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Apr 11, 2013 16:06
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DarkLotus posted:If your host will not allow you access to backup your files and databases, your only other option is to FTP your files and use phpmyadmin to export databases. Yeah they just said again i aint getting it enabled unless i pay... So i will FTP during peak hours and am now a very disgruntled customer.. well played BounceWank
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Apr 11, 2013 16:10
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thegasman2000 posted:Yeah they just said again i aint getting it enabled unless i pay... So i will FTP during peak hours and am now a very disgruntled customer.. well played BounceWank I've never heard of such a thing, way to hold your customers hostage bounceweb!
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Apr 11, 2013 16:36
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mooky posted:I've never heard of such a thing, way to hold your customers hostage bounceweb! yeah not happy.. have a backup script that "might" save my rear end / time.  On a side note anyone using WHMCS? I hate the look so looking for a theme or customising the default. Is it a pain?
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Apr 11, 2013 19:05
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thegasman2000 posted:yeah not happy.. have a backup script that "might" save my rear end / time. https://lithiumhosting.com/billing is heavily modified, but a good example that anything is possible. I don't like how so many hosting companies that use WHMCS don't bother to even try to make the theme fit their design. WHMCS Staff will recommend http://whmcsthemes.com/ who is actually a WHMCS customer to the best of my knowledge. The biggest problem with the "Default" WHMCS theme is it is based on bootstrap but they added their own crappy CSS which makes it poo poo to work with. If you're not looking to spend money working with a designer, I'd suggest whmcs themes.
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Apr 11, 2013 19:12
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Does anyone know why when I try and enter a new A Record it duplicates my entry? So for example if I try to add "bigfatgoon.com" it will add "bigfatgoon.com.bigfatgoon.com". Is it something stupidly obvious that I'm doing wrong?
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Apr 12, 2013 03:23
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Brady posted:Does anyone know why when I try and enter a new A Record it duplicates my entry? So for example if I try to add "bigfatgoon.com" it will add "bigfatgoon.com.bigfatgoon.com". Is it something stupidly obvious that I'm doing wrong? I assume bigfatgoon.com is your zone origin so you actually only need to put any labels that will come before bigfatgoon.com in the entry box. If you need to add a record on the domain itself like a MX or whatever try using the '@' symbol. I could be wrong but that is what I assume based on some other web hosts I've used before.
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Apr 12, 2013 03:29
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doomisland posted:I assume bigfatgoon.com is your zone origin so you actually only need to put any labels that will come before bigfatgoon.com in the entry box. If you need to add a record on the domain itself like a MX or whatever try using the '@' symbol. I could be wrong but that is what I assume based on some other web hosts I've used before. Oh, I see. I feel silly now. Thank you!
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Apr 12, 2013 03:48
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A while ago I complained in this thread about what a lovely, unethical company Enom is, and people suggested transferring my domains to another company. One company in particular was recommended, but I never got round to it and now I can't remember the name. Suggestions? I don't want to make another mistake like Enom.
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Apr 12, 2013 14:03
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fuf posted:A while ago I complained in this thread about what a lovely, unethical company Enom is, and people suggested transferring my domains to another company. I don't sell domains through enom, I use Resellerclub, but I'm curious what issues you had with Enom. Most people will suggest namecheap. DarkLotus fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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Apr 12, 2013 14:06
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DarkLotus posted:I don't sell domains through enom, I use Resellerclub, but I'm curious what issues you had with Enom. They started charging me $10 a month for some random service without my permission (it was opt-out rather than opt-in and I guess I missed the email). It showed up on my bank statement as "domain name registration" (even though it was something totally different) so there was no way to distinguish it from the automatic renewal of my domains, and I didn't notice for like a year. I can't remember what the service was called but there were a bunch of blog posts complaining about it at the time and no response from enom. I know it's my fault for being disorganised enough not to notice, but I still want to change in case it happens again (and from a vague sense of principle). Thanks for the namecheap recommendation. Unless someone says otherwise I'll just go with that. fuf fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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Apr 12, 2013 14:22
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Another popular recommendation for domains (and the one that I use) is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.
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fuf posted:Thanks for the namecheap recommendation. Unless someone says otherwise I'll just go with that. Namecheap still use their enom reseller account despite having ICANN accreditation in their own right. That said, I've never had problems with them, whereas I have had problems with enom themselves other good ones are internet.bs and gandi.net
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I use Gandi. I am pissed off because Namecheap resulted in my site being down for two days, losing a ridiculous amount of ad revenue and essentially being delisted by google. No response, no reason, no eta, entirely loving worthless and useless support.Brady posted:Does anyone know why when I try and enter a new A Record it duplicates my entry? So for example if I try to add "bigfatgoon.com" it will add "bigfatgoon.com.bigfatgoon.com". Is it something stupidly obvious that I'm doing wrong? a dns record looks like this: www IN A 172.166.4.15 You are either looking for: @ IN A or bigfatgoon.com. IN A (note the period)
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Apr 12, 2013 16:57
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intoVPS have just doubled their monthly traffic on all plans $10/mo - 512 ram (1gb burst) - 30gb hdd - 1tb/mo $20/mo - 1gb ram (2gb burst) - 60gb hdd - 2tb/mo etc other than being openvz they compare pretty favourably to Linode (pre-upgrade at least) especially if you just want the $10 plan -j1 real 1m9.189s user 0m56.541s sys 0m7.191s -j4 real 0m19.870s user 1m8.510s sys 0m6.970s
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Apr 12, 2013 17:02
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Biowarfare posted:Namecheap resulted in my site being down for two days, weird, in both thick and thin models, the nameservers are stored at the registry not the registrar were you using their DNS or something? (don't)
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Apr 12, 2013 17:04
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Milkie Galore posted:weird, in both thick and thin models, the nameservers are stored at the registry not the registrar autorenew failed because namecheap's reseller account or whatever at whoever they resell was out of funds(?), and this wasn't resolved for about 2.5 days Registry response is: Billing failure; 2104:Billing failure (ACCOUNT:46 NSF) This is *all* of their updates on the matter: quote:Update @ 11:45 AM EST | 15:45 GMT Entirely worthless. Also still not resolved.
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Milkie Galore posted:were you using their DNS or something? (don't) What don't you like about NC's DNS? The interface kinda sucks, but I haven't seen anything about it that concerns me.
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I don't use namecheap's DNS for the same reason I don't use their hosting, or their email service. There are other companies who focus on these things and do them better (I use HE.net for DNS). I shouldn't have to worry about namecheap suddenly deciding to pull a GoDaddy.
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Guess I'll join in. Run on an Afterburst VM, on the 'Huge' plan. time make real 1m5.849s user 0m43.505s sys 0m9.480s make clean time make -j4 real 0m15.841s user 0m49.743s sys 0m8.297s Here's it run on a brand new Ram Node '128mb SSD-Cached' VM ($16/Year, gently caress yes!): time make real 1m35.944s user 1m22.421s sys 0m8.459s make clean time make -j1 real 1m25.504s user 1m15.960s sys 0m6.551s River fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Apr 13, 2013 11:11
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I got WHMCS installed and found a free theme, I then customised it and am finally happy. Sounds good right? Well now I have decided that instead of having it as a link form my wordpress install I want it as a standalone. So it needs moving from a folder to the root of the domain.... I have a headache now right?
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Apr 14, 2013 18:55
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thegasman2000 posted:I got WHMCS installed and found a free theme, I then customised it and am finally happy. Sounds good right? Well now I have decided that instead of having it as a link form my wordpress install I want it as a standalone. So it needs moving from a folder to the root of the domain.... I have a headache now right? It's actually quite easy. Just update the database to reflect the new path, then move the files / folders to the new location. Nothing else should need to be done.
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Apr 14, 2013 19:32
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DarkLotus posted:It's actually quite easy. Just update the database to reflect the new path, then move the files / folders to the new location. Nothing else should need to be done. I moved it and its working but there is an error with the license now. sent in a ticket. thanks
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Apr 14, 2013 19:36
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Linode hacked. Cancel those credit cards.
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Apr 15, 2013 17:04
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Comatoast posted:Linode hacked. Cancel those credit cards. I'm not going to read 30 pages of IRC logs; any chance of a summary?
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DNova posted:I'm not going to read 30 pages of IRC logs; any chance of a summary? Pretty sure it's just the forced password reset from a few days ago: http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/12/security-notice-linode-manager-password-reset/
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The interesting bits start at 5:03 this morning. TLDR; Disclaimer: This is what I gather. I could be very wrong. What it seems like is that Linode's vps manager was breached and used to gather data for several weeks. Linode found about it, and, apparently being blackmailed by the hackers, attempted to cover it up. Eventually Linode went to the police thus ruining the agreement with the hackers. The hackers are angry, and say they can release linode customer credit card list. Comatoast fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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