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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 - MEGATHREAD
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Yeah, should wait almost a whole year, or buy one from others.
There's nothing like timely responses... and this is nothing like a timely response!
Wait almost a whole year, and miss the flash deal to wait another almost whole year.
They said maybe 7th
The cycle continues
I wait year after year for @gigahost dedis... and don't think I'll stop.
yeah from what I saw in the LTT video, a majority if not all the ones they bought had like less than 300 power on hours, but they also mentioned its very possible that they could've had the S.M.A.R.T stats reset at the factory
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That's a possibility. But typically these would still come with some warranty.
Hdds are a hit n miss. I used to go with one particular brand b4 but now whatever is cheaper I get it.
Much easier and cheaper to have redundant backups these days than worry in general.
If it is purely for iso store, just blindly go for it. Yolo
OEM recertified drives work just fine.
I have been using a recertified WD 8TB drive since 2019.
Thanks. I have a 1.32€/month DE VPS now, so I'd better wait for the next flash sale. Because push fee here is 5€.
When you say OEM, isn't that the manufacturer?
they half the price compared to brand new i think i'm gonna have to get atleast one
yes.. the manufacturer usually is the one recertifying the drives.
The issue with buying recertified HDDs is, the buyer offers a warranty, if you buy it from US company, if shit hits the fan then you have to pay for shipping fee and possible dealing with customs when they send a replacement.
I bought one from ServerPartDeals but if it fails during warranty period, shipment fees etc. would cost same price of a new HDD, considering Im located in EU.
edit: when manufacture recertifies the power on hour gets zeroed and all SMART is wiped so it looks like a brand new disk but as all physical disks no one can guess how long those would last.
I just heard Naranja Host yesterday, when people talking about this flash sale really hot in the forum.
Yeah they are awesome. 40-50% cost for the same product.
What was the website that offers custom boot ISOs? I want to install a minimal Debian image to that 10 GB VPS but never done that before.
These are being sold on eBay by a Computer Store based in Sydney, so they'd have to offer me a replacement or fix under Australian Consumer Law if it fucked out, We don't typically have to deal with the manufacturer for warranty related issues, it's the merchants problem.
netboot xyz
I heard it is famous for being extremely stable?
Oh okay sorry I thought you were planning to buy from US. In that case just check that the seller offers some warranty at least.
IT Cell is watching.
You should make purchase of VPS Server, there is no issue with our other customers. We recieved purchases with this promotion code.
Being from the US consumer protection laws are alien to us.
So one needs to fight tooth and bone to get something back.
Good for you to be living in such an advanced country that values consumers.
Stable, less DCMAs, enough RAM and disk at an affordable price, suitable for some users with internet proxy, PT, video website hosting ... requirements.
ODROID HC4 is so cute I might get one and slap a couple 14TB recertified's in it and create the worlds most unstable NAS
Electrons travel really slowly on LET.
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Yeah, I'm similar. The load on my servers is loooooooow but I still have multiple load balancers and multiple backends. And it's just just about trying to cope and justify buying a load of unnecessary servers!
Even in the simplest example, a load-balancer from a different provider can act as a sacrificial offering if you ever accidentally get hit by a false DMCA takedown or you accidentally violated the ToS - e.g. if you have any user-generated content, your provider could get angry about hate speech, or images that contravene their policies, or whatever. Having your real server behind a load-balancer that only talks to it via wireguard means that if your service ever was pulled, you can get another front-end and set it up with almost zero effort and point it at your real server.
You can also have multiple copies of your web server in different geographic areas. Each of your haproxies (if you have multiple) can point to the closest one but fall back to another if it goes down. If you have multiple haproxies, you can round robin them using DNS, again guarding you against a failure of any of your instances.
You can improve the overall security of your system by locking down each of these things. So for instance, I'm not expecting haproxy to have any vulnerabilities, but even if one is found, all that does is allow someone to mitm my web traffic. That's bad, but it's better than that plus a load more. If there's a vulnerability in my web server, similarly there's more protection, because I run my web servers inside a VM, which are restricted by firewall rules on the host to not allow outgoing traffic other than DB access and only allowes incoming access from the haproxy. So, it should be very difficult even if the attacker manages RCE to download a useful payload or exfiltrate data to explore the system further. Similarly, the DBs are locked down again so only the web-servers can access them.