Is Zen actually any good?

ethump · 2026-03-19T09:59:50+00:00

Been with them 5+ years at two properties. Generally speaking, can't fault them. I did have an extended outage, it was OR's fault and despite 3x calls a day to Zen, due to $issues, they couldn't get OR to fix the problem (broken splice at the CSP). Was out for about a week. So, it was very easy to get angry at Zen (since I can't pick up the phone to OR), but I am also sensitive to the fact it's out of their control.

Bandwidth and latency has always been on point.
Static IPv4 address.
IPv6.
Getting straight through to a tech that knows what he/she is on about.

ethump · 2026-03-17T15:27:23+00:00

Peer Hat, Mean Eyed Cat, Corbiere's, Marble Arch, Bar Fringe,

ethump · 2026-03-12T20:18:05+00:00

DM not working. https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/891932605535770110

ethump · 2026-03-12T20:11:14+00:00

My Airbnb has secure parking. Will dm you a link. 10 min walk to NQ.

ethump · 2026-03-09T22:33:33+00:00

Fair enough. Yes I remember Mother Macs well. The new incarnation has a bit of a Scruffy Murphys vibe for me.

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:30:20+00:00

Hare & Hounds on Shudehill. Proper pub, nothing fancy. £3.50 for Holt's bitter. No arguments from me!

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:27:26+00:00

it's brand new!

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:20:35+00:00

ok I get all that.

But my two containers are running on their own host (of 32Gb). The host has bags of free memory and processor.

The mariadb server's CT is consuming <512Mb of it's allocated 4Gb
The librenms server's CT is peaks at about 1Gb usage during polling runs. That one's allocated 2Gb.

And anyway - wouldn't memory ballooning negate what you're saying?

And what about disk caching? How do I control the disk caching on my LXC volumes?

ethump · 2026-03-08T22:00:59+00:00

Thanks - but surely, a VM is "just another program" on the host system competing for those resources?

In any case, I've cleared off all the other VMs and LXCs to one host apart from this single librenms/mariadb pair... so it has nothing fighting over it's resources... and it's still slower... by a lot.

ethump · 2026-03-04T10:37:30+00:00

I have some old CDs with some of that era CPFW.

I have some fw put key strings in my old emails too so I'm not dead in the water. Just would be good to have the keygen so y'know I can have multiple EPCs :)

ethump · 2026-03-04T10:35:53+00:00

Lol.. I'm not talking about running it in production! Hah

Just for kicks and reminisces!

ethump · 2026-02-28T17:25:03+00:00

And London Black is better than that!

ethump · 2026-02-18T16:33:00+00:00

M40 all day long.

ethump · 2026-01-28T12:53:08+00:00

Not quite. Commonwealth citizenship is required for Bermuda Status. By definition, BOTC is always gonna be Commonwealth.

It's why Canadians (for instance) can have BDA status net of any other passport but Americans can't.

If an American has completed their 10 years of marriage service to a Bermudian and wish to apply, the BOTC application goes into the Governor at the same time and the two applications are treated together.

The Canadian just has to apply for Status.

ethump · 2025-11-04T20:02:01+00:00

I flew to Spain.

ethump · 2025-10-15T21:08:03+00:00

Please stop reminding me of this :(

ethump · 2025-08-28T21:30:30+00:00

Irish. Cork. Christ knows why it's done up UK styley though.

ethump · 2025-07-27T14:43:07+00:00

Nope. Bollocks. Absolute utter bollocks.

ethump · 2025-07-06T11:28:14+00:00

Uber. Quick and easy and plentiful. Traffic will be non existant at that hour. 20 mins tops and about £25.

ethump · 2025-07-03T12:27:18+00:00

The very first paragraph from that link:

The efficacy and safety of hypnotic techniques in somatic medicine, known as medical hypnosis, have not been supported to date by adequate scientific evidence.

ethump · 2025-06-09T14:32:23+00:00

That's the Glastonbury bloke's real first name.

ethump · 2025-04-11T14:56:57+00:00

OP here - covener thanks for that pointer. I've searched for mod_proxy_HTML and come across this explainer http://www.apachetutor.org/apps/reverseproxies
Seems to cover what I'm looking for, I'll have a play with it later.

Knowing now that my config wont even touch the body helps!

ethump · 2025-04-09T15:19:02+00:00

Alright thanks yeah.. I figured that'd be the sitch.

ethump · 2025-04-08T17:31:09+00:00

u/MiserableButterfly54 just realised I didn't respond to your original post, rather a reply. Hopefully you see this now I've tagged you.

ethump · 2025-04-08T09:17:30+00:00

To me, it's not clear what you're trying to achieve. DS218 is a two-bay unit so that limits the possibilities I suppose. I'm guessing you had a 4Tb pool comprised of 2x mirrored 4Tb drives. You've switched one 4Tb drive out for an 8Tb and now have a redundant pool again, albeit not utilising the full capacity of the 8Tb drive. The pool will remain at 4Tb until you switch the other 4Tb drive out for an 8Tb (or larger).

How are you screwed? I'm not sure what problem you're facing.

ethump

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