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• Crunchbits absolutely. Very solid service, good prices and fast support. Premium provider.

  in I've been searching for a large storage server for under $10. Haven't found any yet. Any recommendat Comment by Crab April 28
• Interesting, that's the same price as their 1GB RAM/25GB SSD. I was expecting it to be less. Thank you for confirming though!

  in Vultr New Free Plan Comment by Crab April 2
• Can anybody confirm what's the price if you decide to keep it beyond the first 12 months?

  in Vultr New Free Plan Comment by Crab April 2
• (Quote) The main two limitations were that a single VM can only have 8 cores and it couldn't be connected to vSphere for additional failover functionality. For a home lab / standalone virtualization it was working great, so it is a bummer to lose it.

  in VMware ESXi is not free anymore Comment by Crab February 13
• (Quote) pkg install py39-fail2ban :lol: Running it on every single box I have, works like a charm with pf or ipfw.

  in Double Dedicated Los Angeles At MetalVPS! Comment by Crab February 13
• Your sshd, cron and syslogd have consumed some cpu time according to the info you provided, so I'm guessing there are bunch of script kiddies knocking on your door ... ehm ssh port trying to get in :lol: It could also be caused by just disk I/O, sys…

  in Double Dedicated Los Angeles At MetalVPS! Comment by Crab February 13
• Give MetalVPS a try.

  in Unix Shell Accounts Comment by Crab January 30
• If you like compiling software, take advantage of your new FreeBSD 14 installation and check out /usr/ports! There you can configure and compile pretty much everything: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using

  in Compiling Chromium -- Will it finish? Will it work? Comment by Crab January 29
• (Quote) To be honest, I wouldn't be worried by this a tiniest bit. Handmerging master.passwd and sshd_config is also normal. It has happened to all of my upgrades as well. If you did pkg upgrade -f, it reinstalled everything, so you should really …

  in Double Dedicated Los Angeles At MetalVPS! Comment by Crab January 29
• Soon featuring FreeBSD 14.0! :lol:

  in Double Dedicated Los Angeles At MetalVPS! Comment by Crab January 28
• (Quote) https://www.oracle.com/artificial-intelligence/

  in Oracle Free Tier Experience - What location is best? Comment by Crab December 2023
• Well minimum boot volume is still 50GB so that is the main factor that limits your options. You cannot create a VPS with just 20GB storage for example. Boot volume in their definition is different than block volume so you can have more than two. If…

  in Oracle Free Tier Experience - What location is best? Comment by Crab December 2023
• With 200GB of free storage and minimum boot volume size of 50GB, you can only have up to four instances unless you want to pay a bit for the extra storage.

  in Oracle Free Tier Experience - What location is best? Comment by Crab December 2023
• Any major differences between the sites?

  in [Crunchbits] Halt Hunger Hoard Hardware -- Happy Thanksgiving! Comment by Crab November 2023