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Not really. Their system clock slips years away even if I opened 3 tickets. Well, since you'll use KVM, that might not be a problem for you though.
We have good taste!
@nyr, @raindog308 : ugh.. Enough mush, get a room already...
On topic : so are we going the buyvm way or not?
@Nyr said:
Got it. Lunanode would probably be a good choice, for the budget. You should avoid most of the OVH issues, but you can have the same network/hardware
From what I've seen from both of you, you guys BOTH are experienced LETers and can smell something like IgniteServers from a mile away... It's no surprise you guys both pick only the best :P
@Nyr @Arubacloud if EU is ok for you
i presume you don't like them for IP hijacking thing but for the price i don't see any thing wrong
stable provider and the service
i have transferred most of the clients from DO and Vultr EU location to arubacloud
but my advise don't choose seflow they are in my black books
How is arubacloud compared to DO and Vultr? (I never put anything on arubacloud, apart from a couple of backups)
Yeah, the price is very attractive but I'm not interested. Thanks anyway.
Not a chance. In fact I have some unused credit which I guess is going to sit there for a long time.
I've been told they are somewhat stable, great for the price. I would go with DigitalOcean first, but pricing is obviously different
@Geekoine
My journey with @arubacloud started when some one posted their 1GB Vmware offer for 1Euro/month as you know
but at first i thought they were using some 512Gid nodes with less cpu power and more ram so they can justify the 1Euro cost but after some time they are amazing this is after a week are two i can see that my box snappier every time i do some work and cpu is also good
i had five boxes in all location except CZ all the IP's were clean in that time there this Mailcow post then i hosted a mail server there. I have some exp with mail servers as the Ip were clean my side i know how it works i'm impressed with the quality of vps and the network for that cost i didn't expect much more than a normal Openvz vps is that price range
the support is also not bad in my case i just used they two times one for VAT exemption and another for Rdns (now they have integrated it into the panel) the vat request took them almost 2 hours but the rdns request is completed in just under 15min
Cons:
1)Control Panel
if you are using them for first then their panel is a mess but when the learning curve is over then they the best panel and options i have ever used with a cloud provider
when cloud VPS with HA is required and a normal vps and storage they can work very well together if you use all the things
2)IPv6 (i currently tunnel them from HE)
as i said i'm very happy with them and currently recommending them and my clients machines are all optimized to use under 512 mb even to get the portability that DO offer
currently i using their 1euro/month and some big planes vps for my client machines that are not latency sensitive to DE location of arubacloud and they are great that's all
Yes, it was me, in fact:-)
All good news, I didn't use arubacloud lately, but probably I will.
@Geekoine
actually i have to thank you for the post
I just discovered I still have an active VM which I forgot about
Aruba cloud is great for the money and quality, plus locations, but support is braindead, at least in my case.
I offered to pay from the bank account of my company to prove is from romania and the VAT ID is not an invention, which they could check at VIES, still they refused to remove the VAT asking a lot of papers which can be faked easily anyway. So, fake papers over the internet>bank account in an EU bank.
I registered an account in a fake name then, if I was to pay VAT anyway and using that instead.
Braindead is braindead, if legal and in public cannot work, then underhanded and illegal will. We see this model in many places today, people make efforts to outlaw encryption to make the work of criminals easier, because they will use it anyway while profiting from the exposed accounts and traffic data to steal and blackmail people, even more effective than the government.
Other than that, prometeus no longer offers DDoS protection, except to legacy customers in good standing which do not have heavy or permanent attacks. We have autonull, though, but only in Italy.
Wow, you are back.
Did you write to italian team or to french team?
He's back.
Take cover!
Brace yourselves, essays are coming.
I want that truck
@nyr got your server yet?
lol, share with us..
Actually, they wrote to me after a few days of trial asking if I was happy. I was, the service is good so I tried to buy some credits, then I hit the wall with the VAT, after a few mails back and forth, the frech guy i presume by the name, but with a very good english, made it clear VAT will not be removed if I do not provide some scanned papers even if I pay by bank transfer from company's account, therefore I classified him as a basket case or chatbot with pre-programmed answers and asked to delete the account which he did promptly. Then I made an account in a fake name and going on with that. Added 10 Eur credit, no problems.
How funny that faking it is easier.
There is hardly any surprise there, I am far from having the skills of a hardened cyber-thief, nor am i motivated by hate (religious, racial, ideological, whatever) to break the rules and spread it all over under the cover of anonymity, but I could slip under the radar in a way or another in all places I tried.
OVH did not accept my account, in either real name or company name, ever, I mean order, creating an account was possible, I did not try to make a fake one, due to other problems there, but I bet it would be easy, as long as I do not make any absurd requests, such as removing the VAT or to fix anything that breaks because having to deal with their support sucks and could reach someone with the brain installed which will notice something strange sooner or later, but i can simply cancel and get another until it breaks, etc.
Wow, maounique replied to my post.
I fortunately haven't had to contact ovh/kimsufi for anything yet, and I hope things will stay this way for another 100 years.
Neither have I talked to aruba(only received some automated+1 coupon email from them via the trial).
I find large corporate support to be a pain in the ass. Latest example is steamsupport.
Its steamguard(2FA, some shit I've never activated) locked me out of my steam account for logging in from my laptop(new ip, no way to get in via old address/ip).
Their mailing system doesn't work or is dropped by my old email provider(http email in 2016 wtf).
Support guy just is a clueless fuck it seems. It's not like anyone opens a support ticket to get access to my damn account with supplying a damn game activation key which is tied to the steam account.
I posted five links on my own domain as proof of ownership of a game I've got 10 years ago and they didn't even bother to open the files.
I know the feeling, I am trying for 2 months to recover a code for 2 weeks subscription in a game and each time i get asked the same automated questions and then silence.
Another example where it is easier to fake it at times, is Microsoft Windows and other "protected" products, just yesterday sold a laptop with an original CoA on it to the mailman and wanted to give him a copy of the recovery disk, but he bluntly said it wont be needed, if it breaks, will put a pirated copy as he does not wish to bother with microsoft and their activation, automated or not, plus the crapware preinstalled, and he is a simple mailman with no studies and bulky english at best.
That's an interesting concept. I somehow found a windows 7 home premium msdn iso on the internet which microsoft or its oem middlemen would have taken weeks/months to supply with their outsourced useless support.
Plus, the assholes took down all known links I could found.
Even if you want to get windows 8, you have to petition them for a download link, Much easier just to go to your favorite search portal and find an iso there. Somehow. I mean some people would do that.
I just call out my local computer repairmen.
I got it installed in virtualbox, added my key and it's more legit than before its first activation almost 6 years ago.
Not yet, will update you guys on the choice.
I would say to not let DDoS protection be a factor in your decision making process regarding which provider to go with.
You can always protect your website effectively with remote DDoS mitigation.
Nice signature.
Not even AdSense has ads as relevant as his signature.