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• OVH rate limiting decimates outgoing packets. Specifically, that means if you have a burst of traffic your server can send packets out at the interface rate (1gbps) but OVH will simply throw some away in order to limit the upstream bandwidth. With TCP this usually isn't too much of a problem, TCP will adapt to the packet…

  in OVH/Kimsufi horrible upload speed | What should I do? Comment by burble August 2022
• Performance doesn't need to be the highest priority for a home server. If you have some specific requirements, then sure, but for a lot of things a small SBC will be plenty. On the NUC side, I have a pair of i5-8250U servers at home; they each idle at single digit watts, geekbench4 at >15k each and have NVME disks. That's…

  in How do I build the next big data center in my garage? Comment by burble March 2020
• For inspiration, browse some server porn here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/ and feel inadequate. Setting up a few servers at home to learn some stuff is a great thing to do, but consider: * Hardware is cheap, you can get older gen servers off ebay for next to nothing, but power costs money. A rack stacked with 1U…

  in How do I build the next big data center in my garage? Comment by burble March 2020
• Got to give some love to DrServer @Radi @andrej. Not cutting edge, but rock solid and dependable. Not on the register, HostHatch. A little rough round the edges, but top value if you can grab a deal and have a bit of patience.

  in Host of the year 2019 Comment by burble December 2019
• Not sure how you can provide a public service, if "Internet services are excluded" Power it off and benefit the public by saving the planet ? Otherwise, join the pool: https://www.ntppool.org/en/

  in What free public services can I offer on a VPS? Comment by burble December 2019
• Here's a few Geekbench scores from my BF haul: AlphaVPS - Sofia, OV7, 2 x E5-2650/1GB * v4 - 1766/3226 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15041714 * v5 - 370/678 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/809618 OVH - SYS-BF-1, 4 x E5-1620 / 32GB * v4 - 4093/15044 - https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14980264 * v5 -…

  in Share some Geekbench scores Comment by burble December 2019
• Yup.

  in Your single-board computer (SBC) setup ? Comment by burble December 2019
• The Pi 4 now has Gigabit ethernet and USB3 so should be a serious contender here. I haven't tried it though, nor seen any benchmarks. For what it's worth, a quick test on my pi 4 + SSD suggests a read speed of 232MB/sec, write of 150MB/sec, and I was able to pretty much saturate the gigabit network (100MB/sec) copying a…

  in Your single-board computer (SBC) setup ? Comment by burble December 2019
• @Rahul mine is the 4G variant that I bought the day they came out. £45 from Pimoroni. I use it with an external SSD in a USB3 enclosure which would up the cost a bit if you didn't already have one to hand. With 4G and an SSD though it is now much better balanced then previous gen Pi which tended to bottleneck on something…

  in Your single-board computer (SBC) setup ? Comment by burble December 2019
• I appear to have got myself quite a collection of SBC, including all Pi versions from the original up to 4. Currently active SBCs are: * RPi 3, RPi 3+ and RPi 4 acting as media servers. The 4 makes for a great media player and will happily stream 10bit 4k @ 60hz. * The 3+ and 4 also act as 802.11ac hot spots. * RPi Zero W…

  in Your single-board computer (SBC) setup ? Comment by burble December 2019