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Go ahead and share instances that have caused you a lot of pain but have learned from in your hosting journey, tips and tricks that might help newbies and average users, your experience with hosting technologies (like virtualization, hosting control panels, etc.) which made you very happy and which made you very miserable, what paid and free solutions would you recommend to others and so on.
Whatever you share might actually save someone's time and money (and in some cases save them from going crazy).
My advice,
Learn before taking action do then keep learning.
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My advice
learn business/trade/marketing and stay away from IBM compatible pc's
Don't reinvent the wheel, people have likely done what you want to do before and done it better.
My advise is focus on one thing at a time and understand it.
Many people here (myself included) have an approximate knowledge of many things. There are a few select group of people here actually know-know what the fuck they're talking about. But everyone will tell you as if they're an expert.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Shame on me.
Shame on me
There used to be some sort of bug in the docker application in the debian repo which caused it to crash or some such. Fixed a long time ago though, so yeah
Keep the right hand away from [enter]. On the crotch is a good spot.
In customer service, transparency is the best policy, more of your customers will appreciate that and be more likely to forgive occasional mistakes, and it might even build a life-long customer. Show some humanity, be honest, be relatable, do what you say you will do, and you will win loyalty from your customers.
Why?
Who are they
Do NOT add any flags to ZFS array if you use GRUB & Proxmox even if updater/zfs tool says so.
Wasted 2 days of my life on this shit.
Grub doesn't support pretty much anything other than basic stuff when it comes to ZFS.
If you want to get some electronics cheap never buy low end hardware. Always buy used med-high end instead.
It was designed to be way more expensive so there wasn't that much corners cut, it will probably last you way longer even and will be better/faster/stronger.
Additional benefit - you don't create e-waste, but reuse stuff that was already produced.
Remember that your security and anonymity is non-existing if your friends/people you write with don't care about that.
Yesterday my friend's girlfriend got her Facebook hacked (password reuse for 10 years, no 2FA... no comment) and not only hacker managed to scam some of their FB friends out of money, but only got access to all years worth of messages. Including her's and other people's IDs/passports, because they were flying in some places and shared photos of IDs/passports to speed up boarding. At this point who cares about nudes that she maybe send.
My friend has 2FA and everything... so what?
I've spent whole day trying to help her and reduce impact, because she is so clueless.
And Facebook sucks, hacked account reports from 50+ different friends from her friendlist did nothing...
Never buy the cheapest stuff you can find.. sometimes aftermarket is ok but OEM stuff is usually simply built better..
If you want an example that is easy to see this.. Look at a cheap replacement power supply for a laptop compared to the OEM version.. Notice the difference in weight.. There is a reason they are a fraction of the price..
Never cheap out on Layer 1.. You will be chasing gremlins for the rest of your time dealing with it. Higher cost upfront, less time spent on it later.
Authenticating via SMS OTP (including "secret messaging apps") is not more secure than password.
Rather than breaking password attacker needs to make duplicate of your SIM or just hijack message. There's no encryption to break.
This is different attack vector, not better/worse solution, but some people blindly think that codes via SMS are fine, because they have biometrical recognition lock on their phone. Maybe not even some people, but basically everyone who isn't technical.
Always try to use dedicated 2FA authenticators (software/hardware).
You are backuping? Thats nice.
But take a look if you can restore these backups.
Especially important for any long period incremental backups.
Don't trust software raid
Don't trust hardware raid
Don't trust disks
Don't trust manufacturers
Don't trust sellers
Pen and paper are reliable
Buy my course.
@JosephF said:
more money, more free time, more sex
Don't have production and staging hostnames similar, don't have both terminals open simultaneously either.
• Don't cheap out on PSUs/UPS. They can take out the rest of your system.
• Don't use latest gen for production, let others dev/research lab workout the bugs and/or optimized first. Buy the previous gen or wait a year.
• 3-2-1 rule is only half of the equation! You also need to work out your disaster recovery plan for every single failure point and combinations of those. Even with guarantees, RMA will take at least 2 weeks, can you continue working at any capacity? How long until you can return to 100%?
Pro tip: Have a large HDD that can store most of your current projects, format it with a file system that your main PC can read directly. Attach it to a SBC of sort and run backup daily/weekly. If your array goes down you can still read the HDD directly. Even lowered resolution medias is better than having nothing to show your clients.
Always look twice, before hitting enter, after a "reboot" command.
@HAMSW
double check IP of the server you are going to erase/reinstall
Always buy now and think later.
The time it takes you to think the deal is already gone.
Been there done that..
The last time I did that, the IP was connected locally to my workstation because I replaced a remote router, the local link went down so my session reconnected through the VPN to the 'new' remote router... That was a mess...
This is a fun tool for wordpress.
https://wpbenchmark.io/improve-wordpress-speed/
Everything is seriously gay.
Sillycat's Christmas gift wet dream: