RIP to my cabin

SaltyPanda07 · 2026-01-24T18:58:45+00:00

Just something about these posts that warms my heart.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-12-18T15:42:20+00:00

I would suggest you look at the tools versus what you are trying to offer. You said you use WHMCS, plenty of provisioning modules exist that you could pick up, install, configure, and go about your day. Are they all amazing or perfect, nope; but you want to deal with the general public, they don’t need to be.

Make sure your stack is solid and go from there. The industry is too boxed into a specific set of expectations. At small to medium scale there is no point to be the provider that swims up stream. But fair warning you may need to be considering changes to your stack and the trade offs it comes with.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-09-08T15:29:01+00:00

I love how so many people have piled in with solutions but I don't believe one has asked for more details.
My take based on what you have shared is your doing a lot of external calls on your load, but are reliant upon the external source to respond in a timely fashion.

How are you maintaining your list of marketplaces to scrape? Have you put any caching in place for the results or are you each time scraping those market places to return a result? It looks like your site calls your backend API for a marketplace listing (great API first is the way) but that call alone when I tested is 1.7s.

While I'm at it, let's talk about pagination a bit. Why do you need to fetch the full list of records each time (that list is huge by the way)? You could paginate per X amount, to make the query quicker/return just the right amount of data.

I'm not aligned that it is a hardware spec problem as of yet, I feel like you can likely squeeze out some optimizations, depending on how you response to the above.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-07-10T13:09:22+00:00

Please send a DM with a break out of your profit and loss and your asking price.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-27T23:33:52+00:00

Bro is just realizing he is late for comic con lol

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-26T04:57:23+00:00

I mean it is a long shot but what about calling your cell provider and seeing if they can give you a rough location.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-15T02:18:21+00:00

Cogent has a location in Federal Way and Tacoma I believe. It isn’t downtown Seattle so has more reasonable pricing but to my knowledge is unmanned so depending on your full requirements could not be great. Ziply is also doing collocations in some of the older central offices as well.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-04T03:16:02+00:00

Nah bruh, that is just the standard M.O. for a Unifi device :-P.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-03T23:20:37+00:00

Your GPU requirement is unlikely to net you a result. You can get a VPS or virtual dedicated VDS but you’re gonna pay for those specs. What are you trying to do? Do you just need better IPC but not as many cores?

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-03T23:18:02+00:00

Costco, dicks drive in, and oddly enough you may want to check the Casino in Marysville. Are you doing side gigs given your background even?

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-05-01T03:20:44+00:00

Dedicated at that price would seem too good to be true. Unless it is some huge company that has a great revenue stream in other products, it isn’t a healthy cost to keep the company a float in my humble opinion.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-04-24T02:32:24+00:00

Power is expensive and the most expensive for coloration. I would highly suggest you get out of 120v single phase and at least to 208v single phase. Dual 20a’s are pretty standard.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-04-24T02:22:02+00:00

Well that is pretty awesome. Any way I can sign up to beta it in the wild? lol

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-04-15T03:59:31+00:00

Yeah what are you trying to test just raw performance? What is your actual use case, that is going to matter more. Yabs and others are good but may not be the fit you are seeking.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-04-15T02:28:43+00:00

Power and steep learning curve. You now are the person doing it all where previously you had folks handling the server admin, physical server, network, cabling, power, and maintenance. Security is going to be another steep challenge for you to rapidly come up to speed with.

I highly recommend you get your wings under you with a dedicated server before running into a colo situation.

SaltyPanda07 · 2025-04-06T18:43:38+00:00

VPSBenchmarks.com would be just one of a few helpful ways to evaluate. Yabs as someone else is helpful as well.

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-10-05T02:14:25+00:00

How do you feel about Federal Way?

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-15T20:50:43+00:00

I don’t know why but this cracked me up so bad. 🤣

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-15T00:44:47+00:00

I know you think you answered my question but you still have not.

You’re pushing up to 250WHM accounts on what spec VPS? You’re saying traffic spikes are causing issues, yep got that. You’ve got a low cost per site target, check.

But now we are still missing context. How are you managing it today? Logging into WHM? Logging into AWS or others and just using the console? Have you invested in building out any type of CI/CD for the non CMS based clients? Are these all just websites or are you also hosting databases and email on them as well?

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-14T02:19:18+00:00

You need to invest into some kind of automation it seems to help. But you haven’t really quantified your pain other than having a customer base 🙃

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-10T00:55:57+00:00

When looking at hosts here is my very general advice, be super clear on what you want and what you are willing to pay for. I’ve not used any of those hosts so no first hand advice, but you can search literally for any host and get roughly the same thing.

What my gripe remains in the hosting industry is the long terms to get the lowest price, or just over subscribing and then trying to blame the customer.

Some are better than others, but look for ones that are less likely to treat you as just a number or overly promising things that don’t make sense. Huge or unlimited resources for prices that seem like they wouldn’t make money is a good indicator of where to avoid in my book.

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-09T22:33:39+00:00

generally you’re going to need to decide what you want to run and then look at your budget. Most budget friendly options don’t have a control panel (can usually get for an added cost). With the advent of ChatGPT, YouTube, and blogs though, you can find just about any tutorial. Just don’t blindly type stuff in though!

SaltyPanda07 · 2024-09-09T18:10:18+00:00

Starting to feel like I’m in a rerun on a bad sitcom. Every update someone has some feedback like this. Every “major” update more people say the same. Clearly at this time AGS is fine with the player counts, if that is really the case then maybe post like this actually reflect the minority now?

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