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@msatt maybe it's a lean thing? I remember back in the days when ping was an actual valid attack because the connections were smaller back then, machines has less resources as well. I'm not too sure …

Thanks everyone - pretty much sums up my feelings.

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I don't disable ping on my servers.

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The bad guys scan for numerous open ports across wide ranges of IP's. Having ping disabled does very little for security. They will "find you" one way or the other.

Disabling ping is fine, but disabling ICMP can be bad for network

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I disable it where I can, why not. Why do I want to respond to ping?

disabling ping is nothing but security-by-obscurity, and thus should be avoided

What are the dangers of allowing a server to respond to ping?

Like @bikegremlin said every provider must select their pricing model and if people is not happy because it they always could create their own hosting with ultra super cheapo pricing and work hard t…

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I hope it gets better, but so far this does not look good. Cpu and RAM are better, but the disk speed has dropped, and the network has gone from smooth as glass in my charts to rather blipy. Still …

Sure but I would recommend Tinc (my choice) or OpenVPN or WireGuard for the tunnel instead of GRE. I say this because GRE does not restart automatically if the connection is broken between the two V…

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