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So I might be looking for another VPS provider. They sent me a ticket in the middle of the night saying one of my servers would be taken offline due to an emergency hardware issue. Not to be a backseat DC admin but, the hardware issue couldn't have affected SAN networking because the machine was still functioning (I suppose it could have been degraded without me knowing) and accessible. It was down for 30 minutes.

Why couldn't they drain the vm to another cluster node?

I wondering if I have a more competent rack in my closet then most VPS providers do. I'm going on %99.99 uptime since I built it, and I've had hardware failures that have taken machines offline. It's called a cluster for a reason.

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ynniv 1y ago

The DC will have redundant upstreams that are rare for residential installs.

ChipTuner 1y ago

lol. That's why you get business connections.

ynniv 1y ago

Two? Through separate providers? I'm not saying I haven't done it, but server uptime is not the same as availability over the net.

🤷🏻‍♂️ It's a minor point. I've served plenty of things from a home PC. It's even more reliable now that we have better VPN / CloudFlare options, because it's harder for your ISP to differentiate the traffic.

ChipTuner 1y ago

I've been running my own home and small business "DCs" for about 12 years I can say

Yes, I have a fiber connection and had a cellular connection as a backup, but since I moved to this location I haven't had any downtime in 5 years, so I stopped paying for it because the price was insane. My customers don't need more than %99 availability which is a pretty easy target to hit.

ynniv 1y ago

Unless you're using a well known VPS, you're probably their only customer who legitimately has other options 🫡

ChipTuner 1y ago

They are pretty big here in the US, and just got bought out by a much larger DC. Unfortunately after the merger they froze US hiring (local to my area anyway) and moved all customer service and contact out of the US within the first couple months and laid off a bunch of staff.

VPS is only for my edge, IP protection and connection routing. IMO you have to be running a rack at home if you don't have a business. It's a lot of work, but you can't replace the price to performance. Enterprise hardware is not hard to find, and often much cheaper than consumer equipment if youre willing to shave off a few MHZ off the top of memory in exchange for stability.

unknown 1y ago

Cloudflare ruins decentralization

ynniv 1y ago

They offer many services. I'm talking about using WARP to shield yourself from your ISP: swapping one monopoly for a different one. You could also use one of many other VPN providers instead of WARP.

But people also wrap Cloudflare around their DC, and that dramatically centralizes things. Cloudflare is almost certainly the NSA's best friend.

bitpunk.fm is typing 1y ago

Do you know of a VPS provider that does KYC less sign up, or at least one that perhaps accepts virtual credit cards? Asking for a friend...

ChipTuner 1y ago

I haven't used these, but others have shared these. We all have one of those friends ;)

https://lnvps.net

https://njal.la