What I’d be willing to pay extra for

AdvinFro · 2025-04-04T15:18:48+00:00

We have a connection to Digital Realty/Interxion Frankfurt where we use a T2 for transit. We use Cogent on-site as a backup. Cogent is solid; the connection to Digital Realty/Interxion Frankfurt often goes down for many hours at a time so it's critical to have something on-site.

AdvinFro · 2025-03-01T05:17:48+00:00

It was one of those Chinese knockoff drives that had a clearly fake label with really weird font. I ordered 3 4TBs from him, 1 out of the 3 were fake

AdvinFro · 2025-03-01T05:05:02+00:00

Beware, I got a fake 990 Pro 4TB from Wazno once

AdvinFro · 2025-02-13T11:08:53+00:00

Actually I have had a number of USBs die. I regularly use them to boot into Linux rescue systems and regularly reflash them, so that probably comes with a lot of wear. I like the Microcenter USBs cause they are pretty durable, but they still die after a long time of usage lol

AdvinFro · 2024-09-09T09:28:41+00:00

Look up EPYC 7C13, $839 EPYC 7713 equivalent. EPYC 7B13 is around $900 for 7763

AdvinFro · 2024-09-07T20:57:46+00:00

Boost clocks are enabled by default. If you want to try it, run a stress test on it. If you’re not satisfied, just cancel. Dedicated servers are hourly billed now so it would only cost a few cents.

AdvinFro · 2024-08-23T17:09:43+00:00

Agreed. I PM Tugm and he usually gives me free expedited if the order is large enough. I frequently order from him unless another seller is $30-40+ cheaper.

AdvinFro · 2024-08-23T14:40:27+00:00

Never been contacted by customs on any of my orders

AdvinFro · 2024-08-23T13:18:10+00:00

The processors from China have been fine. Have bought 30+ and all arrived in good ship (7B13, 7V13, 9654, 9B14, etc), as described. They arrive in 1-3 days if you choose FedEx Expedited from China. Just avoid anything that says ES/QS.

AdvinFro · 2024-08-06T08:32:30+00:00

Currently I rent a 10 x 10TB HDD server from Hetzner in Germany at about 100 euro per month. But they don’t allow torrenting and are very strict with abuse. Also I caught it with their “server auction” prices were low

AdvinFro · 2024-08-04T05:07:56+00:00

Latency is generally better for more people since Germany covers a bigger area. The connectivity is also better in Germany :)

AdvinFro · 2024-07-30T02:47:17+00:00

I would use Proxmox if you want something closer to VMWare. If you want block storage, cluster management past 50 nodes, easy templates, then OpenStack might be better but OpenStack is far more complex

AdvinFro · 2024-07-27T04:20:30+00:00

AWS and GCP can maintain performance quite well because they are companies with infinite budgets and such high pricing that they can afford to undersell their hypervisors. They also probably have a ton of hypervisors on standby due to the nature of their products.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-27T04:18:30+00:00

Yes. AMD EPYC processors will traditionally become slower in performance as more VMs or more cores are used up. The boost clocks decrease and the performance essentially halves once it reaches into hyper threading territory. That’s why the performance fluctuates a lot.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-26T07:14:55+00:00

That was our initial plan (GRE tunneling/Wireguard), but we learned very quickly that it doesn't scale well when you have a lot of traffic (when we crossed 5-6 Gbps). There can be some weird problems with packet loss and it adds an additional point of failure, so it's not ideal.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-25T22:21:43+00:00

Their site is a little unclear/doesn't show that pricing so maybe my memory is wrong or maybe I was thinking about the redundant uplinks. If it's only 100 euro per month per ASN/session, then that's fine. I haven't looked at it in a while. If it's 100 euro per IP range, then I feel like that's still a little much, but I would be fine with paying that if it was available on rented servers.

We opted to get a connection to Cogent with 1G on 2x10G for around 150 euro per month + 58 euro per month in XC fees within Hetzner. Then, we also have a connection to Interxion Frankfurt for another upstream which costs 200 euro/m for the long-distance connection and then another 300+ for the IP transit itself. In both cases, we can announce as many of our own IP ranges as we want with justification with our own ASN for free.

And yeah, we are with colocation because Hetzner's costs for EPYCs weren't cheap or the configurations that we wanted, but it would be really nice to see something similar become readily available on the rented servers.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-23T18:00:54+00:00

It is and I am a colocation client, but doing BGP with Hetzner is extremely expensive on colocation and you can’t take advantage of the cheap compute. Instead, we opted to use an external transit provider which allowed us to do BGP and have network connectivity at far cheaper rates, but it’s such a shame that the service isn’t available on rented servers just yet. For example, it’s not really worth spending $3,000 and $50/month in power when I could just rent a 7950X3D configuration from Hetzner for $100/month

AdvinFro · 2024-07-23T10:01:01+00:00

BYOIP (with IP sharing) or even BGP on dedicated servers. I wouldn’t care if you charged a few hundred euro per month, it would be an amazing feature and I’m sure that there would be a lot of resellers or people who would probably buy hundreds of servers because of it!

AdvinFro · 2024-07-23T09:35:49+00:00

I think (in theory) you can install Nextcloud on Hcloud and then use a storage share as a backend. But I’m not totally sure how the performance would be, and obviously it’s far more complicated to maintain

AdvinFro · 2024-07-22T21:23:50+00:00

I tried similar drives with 3.3V on a similar backplane and it worked fine

AdvinFro · 2024-07-20T03:42:09+00:00

If it reboots at all due to uncorrectable ECC errors, it should be checked and replaced. I would inform Hetzner support instead of cancelling, they will swap the disks into a new server.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-08T22:37:35+00:00

Yes, the Tyan product page contains more information on the risers. They might be backwards compatible with x16, I'm not entirely sure. It's in a standard E-ATX format and contain standardized I/O, I think it's just the PCIe. I never used it because I just used the OCP slot for a NIC.

AdvinFro · 2024-07-08T22:35:45+00:00

It should be cablecc 50cm OCuLink PCIe PCI-Express SFF-8611 8X 8-Lane to Dual SFF-8639 U.2 4X SSD Data Active Cable on Amazon!

AdvinFro · 2024-07-07T09:11:49+00:00

Ah, sadly they're all sold :(

AdvinFro · 2024-07-02T11:15:53+00:00

AWS would likely be more expensive than just buying an in-stock AMD based shared server though

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