So I found a 4 GB RAM / 40 GB storage VPS for just USD 10.99/year (!) recently.

It's from George Datacenter, which I had never heard about before. I looked it up and found a few negative reviews but nothing that suggested it was an actual scam, so I decided to give it a try considering the absurdly low price and the fact the complaints were all from a long time ago.

So far it's been smooth. Apparently you can load custom ISOs (I haven't tried, but the UI is there) and there is toggleable VNC access.

I'm curious if anyone has any experience to share about this provider?

Also, the offer is still up if you are interested:

https://www.georgedatacenter.com/promo.php

#vps #hosting #selfhosting #datacenters #sysadmin

So I found a 4 GB RAM / 40 GB storage VPS for just USD 10.99/year (!) recently.

It's from George Datacenter, which I had never heard about before. I looked it up and found a few negative reviews but nothing that suggested it was an actual scam, so I decided to give it a try considering the absurdly low price and the fact the complaints were all from a long time ago.

So far it's been smooth. Apparently you can load custom ISOs (I haven't tried, but the UI is there) and there is toggleable VNC access.

I'm curious if anyone has any experience to share about this provider?

Also, the offer is still up if you are interested:

https://www.georgedatacenter.com/promo.php

#vps #hosting #selfhosting #datacenters #sysadmin

I know there are big archives of historical Usenet posts online. Are there similar Echonet archives from Fidonet?

#usenet #fidonet #retrocomputing #sysadmin #bbs

The client has a terrible, unreliable FTTC connection. So, this morning, I've been testing several devices and 4G carriers to find a reliable alternative when the FTTC is full/down.
The good, old LTE12 Chateau is the best for this task, giving a stable and reliable 220/50 Mbit/sec thanks to carrier aggregation.
The newer but smaller hAP ax lite LTE6 is still giving a good result, around 100/50 - expected, as it's "only" a LTE6. This will probably come to my office, while I'm waiting for the Chateau 5G (LTE20) to arrive - probably not before middle of November.

Now, I need to create proper queues and rules to manage the two connections - at the moment, I've implemented only the failover and some simple queues on the FTTC.

Lunch time.

#Mikrotik #IT #SysAdmin #MorningFun

I know there are big archives of historical Usenet posts online. Are there similar Echonet archives from Fidonet?

#usenet #fidonet #retrocomputing #sysadmin #bbs

This morning it looks like two of my connectivity providers had serious issues across almost all of Italy. I didn't notice anything and thought the problem was in other areas.
I was wrong: the problem was related to their DNS, which was down or malfunctioning.

This is why I didn't notice: I use my own DNS resolvers, and they perform resolutions directly, without a forwarder.

Once again and for the second time this week, Own Your Data and decentralization guaranteed continuity.

I will never stop saying it: Own Your Data!

#OwnYourData #IT #SysAdmin

This morning it looks like two of my connectivity providers had serious issues across almost all of Italy. I didn't notice anything and thought the problem was in other areas.
I was wrong: the problem was related to their DNS, which was down or malfunctioning.

This is why I didn't notice: I use my own DNS resolvers, and they perform resolutions directly, without a forwarder.

Once again and for the second time this week, Own Your Data and decentralization guaranteed continuity.

I will never stop saying it: Own Your Data!

#OwnYourData #IT #SysAdmin

Dis-moi un sshd_config qui n'a aucun PermitRootLogin (donc ni à yes ni à no), ça veut dire que le root login est possible ou qu'il est impossible ?

Y'a (commenté) PermitRootLogin prohibit-password (qui me paraît une option acceptable, non ? ça veut bien dire qu'on ne peut s'y connecter qu'avec une clé ssh autorisée ?) mais y'a rien d'autre sur RootLogin, ni commenté ni décommenté...

#ssh #sysadmin #Debian

I have moved my blogs to my @OpenBSDAms VM, as I need that 1 euro small VM for some tests (spoiler: chatmail server for Delta Chat). The DNS TTL is set to 300 seconds, which is 5 minutes. After more than 30 minutes, some hosts are still connecting to that old record.

I agree with @nuintari - the problem usually isn't the DNS but the MISCONFIGURED dns. And it's full of them, out there.

#IT #SysAdmin #DNS

This morning, this is extremely appropriate (even if I yell at cloud when it's working, too)

#AWS #AWSDown #AWSOutage #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #Decentralize

Any of you other #sysadmin types out there seeing a high failure rate of 4th-gen #AMD Epyc processors? What I'm seeing here is either dodgy motherboards from the vendor you'd most likely think of when I say this, or there's a processor problem on a scale I simply haven't seen before in decades of doing this work.

Any of you other #sysadmin types out there seeing a high failure rate of 4th-gen #AMD Epyc processors? What I'm seeing here is either dodgy motherboards from the vendor you'd most likely think of when I say this, or there's a processor problem on a scale I simply haven't seen before in decades of doing this work.

This morning, a dev I work with flagged a server that was struggling. I logged in and, unfortunately, a bunch of "Scrapers" were hammering it, causing an overload. This dev is very sharp and understood the situation. He started extending the caching margins. I prepared a list of countries of interest and, using pf, blocked the rest of the world.
The load plummeted, and the client doesn't care about their products being visible outside of specific markets.

Shortly after, a similar situation on another server I manage (subcontracted, to be precise). I didn't know this dev and saw there was no caching in place, so I spoke to him and asked him to implement it. His response, sadly predictable, was that another one of his clients just moved to $CLOUD_PROVIDER and no longer has these problems, simply paying more when these "attacks" become more intense. I suggested he try enabling caching and thinking about their markets of interest. He's a positive person, so he agreed to give it a shot. A short while later, just by adding Varnish and some good VCL, the load dropped from 100% to 5%. Without any blocking.

He called me a little while ago, incredulous and happy.

It's always a pleasure to work with people who are willing to experiment, explore, and listen. With people who don't just follow the herd or ad banners, but who think for themselves. I've earned myself a walk outside the office now.

#IT #SysAdmin #BeFree

Hi folks!

My employer is currently looking to hire a fractional CTO at about 6 hours per month, and this person would ideally provide high-level direction and guidance regarding technical systems administration, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure for our team.

Ideal candidates would have substantial career experience and live in Canada. Values-alignment (eco-stuff) is also very important.

Please DM for more info!

#GetFediHired #sysadmin #cybersecurity #ClimateTech #climatechange

Enterprise world, today

#RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

Dis-moi , si un professionnel (médecin, avocat, notaire, petit entrepreneur...) veut arrêter de faire n'importe quoi niveau informatique et demande à ce qu'on l'aide à mettre en place les bonnes pratiques (passage au libre, chiffrement des données et des communications, isolation du réseau, sauvegardes automatiques, respect du RGPD, etc...), est-ce qu'il existe des guides complets sur ce qu'il faut faire ?

#degafamisation #sysadmin
#logiciellibre

Funny how some admins get their website on shared hosting, put it behind Cloudflare, but leave MX hostname exposed directly.

Every folk who has dealt with hosting control panels knows that 99% of such domains will have both e-mail and web server on the same host

It is easier to run e-mail servers with control panels on each node than build e-mail cluster separate from web servers - that's just how shared hosting usually is.

Cloudflare must have brilliant marketing so that people fall for it

#hosting #sysadmin #serveradmin

Hi folks!

My employer is currently looking to hire a fractional CTO at about 6 hours per month, and this person would ideally provide high-level direction and guidance regarding technical systems administration, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure for our team.

Ideal candidates would have substantial career experience and live in Canada. Values-alignment (eco-stuff) is also very important.

Please DM for more info!

#GetFediHired #sysadmin #cybersecurity #ClimateTech #climatechange

Funny how some admins get their website on shared hosting, put it behind Cloudflare, but leave MX hostname exposed directly.

Every folk who has dealt with hosting control panels knows that 99% of such domains will have both e-mail and web server on the same host

It is easier to run e-mail servers with control panels on each node than build e-mail cluster separate from web servers - that's just how shared hosting usually is.

Cloudflare must have brilliant marketing so that people fall for it

#hosting #sysadmin #serveradmin

Keep your FreeBSD system cool with built-in temperature monitoring!

No ports needed, just sysctl and a simple shell script. Perfect for FreeBSD 14.x users who want lightweight, dependency-free thermal monitoring.

Quick, practical, and very Unix.

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251009-FreeBSD_Temp-Monitoring.md

#FreeBSD #BSD #SysAdmin #Unix