Tip to providers selling ultra cheap services

randvegeta

@jcaleb said:

Kiwi83 said: A friend who spent his college time in China told me that some college kids in China use ultra cheap VPS's as proxy servers to browse porn sites that are blocked by their government. They paste and copy some random commands on the Internet and hope they will work on any VPS's. When those commands don't work well they will just hit the dispute button and move on to another host company.

My friend learned how to set up a proxy server from his Chinese roomate and enjoyed his little happy time as well. Now he still brags about his porn related storys time to time.

Maybe @randvegeta should just provide cached porn content so clients are still happy

GENIUS! What kind of porn do they like in China?

Mxl

Your nat vps is very good !
Let's start the plan 'Donation' !

proton

I'm impressed about the stability of your nat vps!

randvegeta

@proton said:
I'm impressed about the stability of your nat vps!

Glad you like it. Why wouldn't it be stable? We cap resource usage to minimise over usage.

Disk I/O is capped at 20MB/s, which I see you are getting. And bandwidth is capped at 50Mbit/s (and you're getting upto 38Mbit/s). I'm a little surprised the IPv6 is so slow though... but that's 100% HE.net, whereas we are pushing the NAT IPv4 over HGC.

It's also KVM, not OpenVZ, so the overhead on the RAM/CPU is quite a bit larger. What you can do on a tiny VPS like this is really kind of limited, so I don't know what there is to complain about.

In the future, we will probably increase the RAM and have no swap. This should hopefully take some load off the disks, which is currently the biggest bottleneck.

TimboJones

@jcaleb said:

Kiwi83 said: A friend who spent his college time in China told me that some college kids in China use ultra cheap VPS's as proxy servers to browse porn sites that are blocked by their government. They paste and copy some random commands on the Internet and hope they will work on any VPS's. When those commands don't work well they will just hit the dispute button and move on to another host company.

My friend learned how to set up a proxy server from his Chinese roomate and enjoyed his little happy time as well. Now he still brags about his porn related storys time to time.

Maybe @randvegeta should just provide cached porn content so clients are still happy

Cached porn? You want him to come to your house and prewatch the porn so you have a local cache?

Eased

@TimboJones said:
Cached porn? You want him to come to your house and prewatch the porn so you have a local cache?

Yes.

Neoon

10 Checkboxes? I did not see them, CHARGEBACK.

desperand

proton said: I'm impressed about the stability of your nat vps!

This is not stability. Because there were leaked exploits much worst then Spectre / Meltdown which require new kernel and REBOOT. If you have 200 uptime, I do not even with to imagine how many not fix but leaked exploits you have inside your OS.

TimboJones

@desperand said:

proton said: I'm impressed about the stability of your nat vps!

This is not stability. Because there were leaked exploits much worst then Spectre / Meltdown which require new kernel and REBOOT. If you have 200 uptime, I do not even with to imagine how many not fix but leaked exploits you have inside your OS.

When was the all the patches? I thought they mostly came out in Jan, Feb, March. 200 days is less than 7 months ago. And older CPUs like what might be found on cheap hosts might be too old to patch. I recall getting a planned upgrade notice from one of my providers back in January, no others since.