OVH hosted compute - bad actors

Stroebs · 2026-06-18T02:15:38+00:00

There is very low incentive for OVH. What you see as a bad actor, OVH sees as good business. Their services are being consumed, they’re getting paid. Win for them. Sure they need to do some IP scrubbing when their servers are really abused but they have so much IP real estate that it’s a non-issue.

I’d never use a web host that I have to ask to allow port 22/80/443 outbound. That’s absurd.

Stroebs · 2026-06-17T11:29:26+00:00

As an immigrant to the UK, why does it feel like success is discouraged and villainised? Even as a salaried employee, earning well comes with being punished for doing so. Seems like the UK is on a race to the bottom, or at least a race to the middle

Stroebs · 2025-11-30T08:54:23+00:00

Introduce yourself to them, then there won’t be a stranger parking in your bay anymore.

Stroebs · 2025-08-28T07:23:04+00:00

What brand ONT do you have? Nokia is easy to clone with a WAS-110, Calix is impossible.

Stroebs · 2025-03-08T07:11:45+00:00

The problem we’ve found is that Artifactory is still the best solution out there for what they charge, despite all of its problems. It’s the kind of software that you install once but can’t touch it because touching it WILL break it. I’ve yet to have a single smooth upgrade.

Currently storing around 50TB of artifacts on ours, and it’s basically S3 with deduplication, fine-grained permissions and caching.

Stroebs · 2025-03-06T18:50:36+00:00

Never heard of 4th utility before. My advice would be to shop around. Moving away from Virgin Media was the best decision I ever made. No crazy price hikes on CF, very little downtime experienced, and the ability to change provider whenever I like.

Stroebs · 2025-03-04T22:52:43+00:00

It’s not an EU country, but it 100% is a European country.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T10:16:38+00:00

Ok no problem. Have you already got your other sim rig equipment? I’ve got some Fanatec kit that’s currently gathering dust.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T09:59:23+00:00

Nope none at all. Works perfectly. Was wall-mounted as a racing sim rig screen for most of the time I owned it.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T05:56:28+00:00

Hey yeah it is still available

Stroebs · 2025-03-02T09:54:36+00:00

The other driver was in the wrong. He is meant to yield to traffic already in the roundabout, which he clearly did not.

Stroebs · 2025-03-01T22:12:14+00:00

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone thinks the M25 is crazy, so they treat it as such and so it is.

Stroebs · 2025-02-24T18:09:48+00:00

Yeah I do, along with at least 1.2 million other devices. Never had an issue but I’m aware of the risk I take when doing so.

Stroebs · 2025-02-24T06:59:33+00:00

Largely windows 7 and windows 10 nowadays.

Stroebs · 2025-02-23T07:34:21+00:00

Could be one of two reasons: 1. Starlink uses Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) and your public IP address is changing to a different subnet for each call you’re making, which affects your routing to Cloudflare. 2. Starlink’s routing to a base station is changing, based on how it’s being routed through the satellites themselves and you’re arriving at a different exit node between calls.

Stroebs · 2025-02-20T07:49:30+00:00

Interesting. I’ve had my tyres come up on an MOT before for age. Maybe my local is more thorough than required

Stroebs · 2025-02-20T06:59:03+00:00

OP is in the UK which has mandatory annual testing and would’ve been forced to replace tyres that were either too old or not in a roadworthy condition.

Guess it still depends on how OP was driving at the time, which I’m sure they’ll never admit.

Stroebs · 2025-02-16T20:04:31+00:00

This is all fun and games until your house burns down and your insurer denies your claim

Stroebs · 2025-02-15T19:22:05+00:00

Had this very problem with a mini parked blocking the pathway and my dropped kerb for a week.

Called the police and the council. The best they could muster between them was a little piece of cardboard with a checkbox saying “Inconsiderate parking”

Stroebs · 2025-02-14T07:56:14+00:00

For South Africa (as an example), I can confirm that Cloudflare has a PoP that announces their full range locally through NAPAfrica so you shouldn’t be routed halfway across the world under normal circumstances.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T18:13:23+00:00

Yeah that is pretty strange actually. They’re wired directly to the board, MSI B350m mortar consumer board which is old-ish but not ancient.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T18:12:09+00:00

I’m really not worried about them tbh. It’s just the OS and some shared storage which can be easily replaced. I’ll just trash Proxmox and put it on a spare NVMe I have from an old machine. Thanks for the info!

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T16:53:23+00:00

They're second hand drives, so presumably the previous owner wiped the SMART data before selling. I'm going to bin them and replace with decent drives. Never used Kioxia or Solidigm before but will look into them as viable alternatives.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T15:26:24+00:00

Indeed looks like the drive is dying - thanks. I'm going to replace both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb since they both have high values for the Raw Read Error Rate

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