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Sad about private email not going along. Proton is crap privacy-wise. Anyway, good luck with migration, seems like it will keep you busy for a while.
yeah I might have bitten too on the privacy email, but again also appreciate @MannDude 's honesty, as he didn't hide anything and discussed everything openly
and Good luck with you journey ahead 
Too bad for private email, I was really looking forward to switch, considering how much you care about privacy. All in all, good luck in your future endeavors, maybe you decide to continue development one day.
which would have to be proven! @Francisco
Waiting for the EU locations to roll out.
I'm not saying no to it forever, just no to it for now.
is a semi-closed system. does not natively support email protocols.
Why is that?
That's unfortunate. But I'm looking forward to whatever comes next. What kinds of other brands can we expect under @ISP ? I remember something about an enterprise-oriented company you mentioned a while back.
Also no support for XMR payments, even with gift cards. At least Tuta offers those through proxysto.re
Proton is meant for Normies who are switching away from Google and want the comforts of a full workspace suite. It is better than Google by far, but not for the most hardcore privacy enthusiasts, at least not as a single provider to rely on. For that demographic, there isn't a perfect, one size fits all answer.
Wait a minute, w-MyPrivateInbox is voided?!
There is another brand in the works, but the marketing of the services will be done differently than what I do for IncogNET. It'll be the same services and features that IncogNET has, just different branding and marketing angles that is more geared towards business, entrepreneurs, start ups, digital nomads, etc. The main privacy features of IncogNET will still exist, of course. The privacy and speech related policies are a core part of what I believe in, but the way IncogNET is branded and presented is a turn off for some of these demographics.
Additionally, I may rebrand IncogVPN to something different, and run it separately. Namely because there is an app in the app store with the same name, that is unrelated to us. Will still be available via IncogNET, of course, but wouldn't mind having it be it's own brand and have it's own website and presence considering there are many more people who are interested in a VPN who have no need, desire or even know what domains, hosting, etc is all about. Your Mom and grandpa have probably seen a commercial for a VPN on the TV before. They probably don't know what a KVM Virtual Server is, though...
tuta is no better. it does not support any typical native email protocols. it is also just a system that works on its own.
Agreed. I'm just pointing out that XMR payment is possible, and proton chooses not to offer it.
Testing some new plans out.
On these new nodes, we have enabled Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default. This is an AMD Epyc security feature that offers some physical memory encryption on the host node.
For individual VMs, we're testing SEV-ES, which may be an optional opt-in feature at an added cost. Doesn't seem like we can automate the process and there are some limitations. Additionally, at least on the node I am using for testing, we'd be limited to X number of VMs that we could apply this to. While all of the components are there to support it at the host level, I'm having some difficulty getting VirtFusion to play nicely when trying to enable it on an individual VM.
It's late and I'm tired so I asked Claude to create a quick blurb comparing the two features.
So, if I get SEV-ES working without much headache it'll likely be an opt-in feature. Can't enable it by default for everyone because of some host node BIOS restrictions, in that I'm limited in the number of VMs it can apply to and there are some caveats like the VMs can not be live migrated, not all VM OS options will work but the major ones should (Debian, Ubuntu, etc), I don't believe snapshots can be made, but this is something I'll have to test, there is a performance impact expected but it's something that will need to be tested and measured. I've got some empty nodes sitting in WA that I can compare dev VMs on... In any case, it's something I am looking more into and researching. It'll be a great option for those who use LUKS encryption and are paranoid about their keys getting dumped from memory, for example. (SME by itself doesn't protect against this)
Anyway, we're designing some new VPS plans. All existing customers will keep their plans, but they may be discontinued. They'll just be marked as "legacy" plans. One of the new plans is shown below... Not a low end plan but it's what I've been playing with in testing.
Network:
VM is supposed to be capped at 5Gbps in VirtFusion, so not sure why it's pulling 5.x+ Gbps down in some locations. Host node has a 10G NIC I can max out if I test at the host level, so seems the throughput limit may not be set properly in VF. (Though it does appear correct, so who knows)
Depending how fast it samples and calculates the average, and since the speedtests at >1g are very quick, the speed might appear higher than expected when done in short bursts. Have you tried iperf to somewhere close and graphing the speed?
Will prices remain in the same range as they are now? Or will we expect increases?
There will be pricing adjustments, but only for the new plans. I've done a bit of napkin math and it's hard to compare the new plans 1:1 to the existing plans since some resource allocations are a bit different, but there will be an increase for some. Our pricing and resource limits (CPU/RAM/DISK/BW) has remained the same for the last 4 years, with the only adjustments being us increasing the port speed from the original 1Gbps to 5Gbps across the board and adding some features like offsite snapshots.
After some intensive node auditing, I've seen where we could have designed our plans slightly differently to make better use of the hardware configurations we use, which is pretty standardized across all locations with some minor variations here and there.
I'll still run some promos, but as it is now, most of our sales and revenue stems from our advertised, non-discounted, website pricing. I'll certainly release some promotional offers once we get these new plans finalized and share them on LET.
HOWEVER, existing plans will just simply no longer be sold but will otherwise remain available to those who already purchased them. No one with an existing plan is having their price increased. We may offer some nice incentives to get people to self-migrate to the new plans and new system, should they want to, but we'll see. Nothing is entirely set in stone just yet.
Is IncogNET mostly spread through word of mouth? I hardly see you advertise anywhere outside here and LES.
Yeah, basically. Plus organic leads through search engines. Only places I've really ever advertised as of recent was Monerica, and I'll renew my ad spot with them once I get new stock setup.
Also, still messing with some new plans. Some plans will actually be cheaper but may slightly different resources than what is available now, some may be more expensive but offer more of a different resource.
Just trying to balance things out and make sure things are priced reasonably and on par with what is common outside of the niche lowend markets.
Take your time and don't rush thing. Don't forget to breath and take breaks to clear your mind and change your prespective.
Works pretty well. Making some final UI tweaks to the output and the sysctl.conf configuration tool should be live. I've been really into tweaking systctl.conf the last few months on my own personal boxes for specific use cases and have found that it does make a difference, especially so when it comes to network performance. Figured I'd make a public tool to help others, too. Page will also include additional, general information about sysctl.conf and the configurable values. Should be informative, at the very least.
The tool has our new (not yet on our site or public) plans as available options to select, but for those without an IncogNET service or a server that doesn't closely match one of our pre-configured plans, you can enter your RAM (64MB to 2TB), CPU (1 core to 256) and port speed (1Gbps to 100Gbps).
The rest is pretty self-explanatory based on the screenshot.
Still a work in progress. I need to run some of the logic through Claude or something because it seems to be 'slightly off' what I'd expect for some values for certain RAID array types. Will support RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-6, RAID-10 configs which are all pretty standard. Will support nested RAID RAID-50 and RAID-60 as well as ZFS RAID levels like RAID-Z1, RAID-Z2 and RAID-Z3.
You enter the number of disks. You enter the size. You enter the RAID type. It will give you a good idea of what to expect in terms of usable storage capacity, fault tolerance and performance.
Also have a Tor Relay torrc file configuration tool in the works, but I've not added any styling elements. Basically just a tool to make it easier/quicker to setup a Tor Relay or Exit with some configurable options that one can set based on the server they're running it on.
Looks great.
Despite the pretty wizard, customers are still responsible for quite a bit of upkeep after setup. Correct? That is why I've never bothered.
Yeah, it's more of a jumping off point and may present some issues with certain software stacks. But I'll add a bunch of disclaimers and warnings and "this may break stuff" notices. Backup, test, tweak, etc.
It's gives more ballpark figures than anything.
Some new deals will be available soon. Will be WA only because that is where I actually have a few empty and spare nodes sitting around at the moment.
We turn 4 next month, so these are big celebratory deals. You won't want to miss these.
@MannDude is there even the slightest possibility that Naaldwijk can get a deal or two? pretty please
Wow time flies man, very cool
No... No capacity. Will be moving to AMS proper in the next month or so, but even then, just ordered enough hardware to move customers but not onboard more there. NL will be a few months out, I'd assume.
@MannDude any chances of $7 or $3 dealz [yearly], I have made an account like 5-6 months ago and ain't got no deal
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