Daniel
Daniel
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Do you get any error messages? It's hard to tell what's wrong when you just say it 'failed miserably' with no other info (error messages, what failed, etc) :smiley: I recently wrote a guide for NFS over WireGuard (https://d.sb/2020/12/nfs-howto). Not sure about Samba though, it's been a very long time since I last used it.…
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the pro version. I use the open source version. I think Nextcloud still lacks delta/partial syncing (if you modify a large file, only upload the parts of the file that have changed, rather than the entire file) which is a reason I chose to use Seafile instead.
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Out of curiosity, if it's just for files, why Nextcloud rather than Seafile? Seafile's syncing is faster and more reliable than Nextcloud. Sorry if it was already mentioned on one of the otter pages in the thread.
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Maybe a long shot, but find someone willing to transfer their London HostHatch storage VPS from their recent sale? On January 21, they sent out an email about some offers with limited stock, and had a few 10TB plans in stock in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London. 10TB usable space, 2 GB RAM, 15TB monthly transfer for…
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Some VPN providers offer port forwarding even though they use shared IPs. AirVPN provide port forwarding, up to 20 ports per customer, and the ports are reserved for you across all their servers. It's not like some other providers where they auto-assign you a single forwarded port that can change every time you connect. So…
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For lightweight, self-hosted analytics, there's also https://umami.is/ Yeah I recently wrote a post about sharing storage with NFS and WireGuard: https://d.sb/2020/12/nfs-howto Make sure the files are owned by the same UID you're trying to use to read/write them. NFS only deals with user IDs by default, not usernames…
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I've got https://d.ls/ too! haha
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Oops, sorry, I should have included a link!
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I use Borgbackup via Backupninja, and take daily backups. I've been using backupninja for maybe 10 years now... It's basically a shell script to help with automating backups. Handles a bunch of things like dumping MySQL databases. Works pretty well for me. I used to use it with Duplicity but switched to Borg a year or two…
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Netlify is very good! We're using it for the Yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/), React (https://reactjs.org/), and Babel (https://babeljs.io/) sites. One of the features that I love is that if your site is on Github, pull requests get a link to a preview version of the site, with the changes in the PR. Makes it a lot easier to…
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They'd have a ridiculous amount of cache contention (https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/what-is-cloudflare/ says 26 million sites use Cloudflare), so the caches definitely aren't warm for many users of the free plan, particularly if the site doesn't get many hits.
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Flippa is decent for buying/selling domains.
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Buffalo. Would have been nice to get a server in San Jose as that's very close to where I live at the moment. I've actually got two servers from Black Friday 2018. The one that I mentioned earlier, and one with the same processor, 8 GB RAM (instead of 10 GB) and 60 GB SSD (instead of 120 GB). I'm trying to move everything…
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This is a really good post. Thanks for detailing your experiences!
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I hear this a lot about VirMach, but one of the best performing VPSes I've got is with VirMach, from their 2018 Black Friday sale. It's a beast of a server though: 4 vCores @ 3 GHz, 10 GB RAM and 120 GB SSD.
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The script looks pretty good... Nice work. I've got WireGuard running on a 256 MB KVM with no issues. On Linux, at runtime it's just a kernel module so the memory requirements are lower than other VPN apps that need userland apps to be running.
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A while back I was looking for a storage VPS for backups, and one of the providers I tried out had such absolutely horrible disk I/O performance. An fio benchmark returned a result of 0.58 MB/s. I think the IDE hard drive I had in my first computer (a 486 with a 600 MB drive) would have been faster. Got rid of that VPS…
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When I was doing my initial prototyping, I couldn't get BoringTun working on OpenVZ: https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun/issues/90. Seems like the issue I had was fixed though, I just haven't tried it again since Wireguard-go is working for me. I'd be interested in hearing whether anyone tries it out and how it…
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Not 100% sure but I have a feeling this won't work on OpenVZ due to how it configures the network device, and you'll need to try it on KVM instead.
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Is that "All services are operational" banner just hard-coded? lol ???
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Original comment from LET, from an employee of Heymann (who Hostdoc were using): https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3081113/#Comment_3081113
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Someone once asked me why their computer was so slow... They had four different anti-virus programs installed. "I got a virus once, so I installed a few antiviruses to make my protection even better".
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I've heard that CGNAT is relatively popular in various European countries, and in China. On the other hand, a lot of the American phone carriers are almost exclusively IPv6 now... T-Mobile is ~95% IPv6, using NAT64 to connect to legacy (IPv4-only) services.
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You could get a HE Tunnelbroker IPv6 tunnel and set that up on your laptop :) I think it's possible (tunnelling 'public' IPv6 over WireGuard), not sure though. I just use it for a point-to-point VPN, connecting a bunch of VPSes together. Some VPN providers are using WireGuard now, so it should be doable. Yeah, every…
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For all my NAT VPSes, I'm using the IPv6 addresses (in general I use only IPv6 for inbound connections to NAT VPSes). You could use the IPv4 as long as you use a port number in your NAT port range, but I found it easier to use IPv6 so that every VPS can use the same port for WireGuard (makes my life easier when managing…
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You're very unlikely to hit that in real life though - Usually you have far more reads vs writes, except in some particular cases (eg. a database server could be write-heavy if it's primarily for transactions instead of analytics).
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Indeed it is, even for legacy OpenVZ6: You can see a full list of supported kernels here: https://patches.kernelcare.com/
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The great thing with Grafana is that you can combine multiple servers into a single graph :) I'm scraping data from Netdata into Prometheus, but haven't had time to set it up on all my VPSes yet.
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Also check out https://www.lowendstorage.win/
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What does this even mean? (from https://datawest.com.au/about-us/) Does this mean they're running at 90% capacity on their VPS nodes? 25% of domains are not registered? They have 5% unsold inventory of dedicated servers? I'm so confused. At least their address actually seems like a business address, but who knows if they…
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Is Seattle OK? FWIW, I live near San Jose and Cloudflare often routes via Seattle for me. MrVM has a location in Seattle, as does RamNode. Los Angeles might give you slightly better pings to the Bay Area though.
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@mikho Hope you feel better soon! Definitely rest up and spend time getting better :)
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In my case I was trying to switch to Debian 10 at a provider that's quite slow to respond to tickets. They still haven't responded... I think I'll just cut my losses and either stay on Debian 9 or switch to a different provider.
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There's enough IPv6 addresses for each human on Earth to have trillions of addresses, so no worries there :) I found each of my devices takes about four addresses. Am I wasting too many addresses? Should I release the /48 and go back to /64? /48 is fine, particularly if you want to do any subnetting (ie. you want to create…
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It's not a waste; it's required for some features to work properly. IPv6 was intentionally designed this way. See https://etherealmind.com/allocating-64-wasteful-ipv6-not/ It's actually quite useful even on one server/VPS, as containers (LXC, Docker, etc) on the VPS can automatically get a public-facing IPv6 address,…
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Are you encountering issues with the libraries even when statically linking them? Do you get an error message?
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Hmmmm, quite possibly a different setting. AFAIK there's no 4.19 kernel for OpenVZ so the version number is a lie, which is dangerous (as the kernel may not actually support all the features of 4.19.0).