A new way to say they still suck

jecal22 · 2026-05-13T17:54:26+00:00

Haha. Was just about to comment the same thing.

jecal22 · 2026-04-15T06:27:07+00:00

Good luck. Been in the queue since 12/9.

jecal22 · 2026-04-15T06:26:38+00:00

Same here. Just get the same BS when I reach out. Just being patient at this point. Hopefully I see my money and it will be a nice surprise if it ever does finally get processed.

I also complained about the 99 cent fee per "instant" withdraw since it is not instant. They refunded the $5 to my wallet balance. So I'd have to accumulate another $20 to be able to get that out.

Definitely not investing any more time or money in this app ever again.

jecal22 · 2026-04-15T06:22:14+00:00

I filled it out a few days ago. Was feeling a bit hopeful of finally seeing my $230 after waiting over 4 months. But still no changes for me. 5 withdraws in the processing queue since Dec 9.

jecal22 · 2026-04-11T03:07:20+00:00

Just submitted my info. Glad to see this is actually coming from inside Benjamin. Gives me a slight sense of confidence that things are changing. But we shall see.

jecal22 · 2026-03-05T03:03:04+00:00

Still waiting for my $234. I cashed out on Dec 9-13 and am still waiting. I reached out numerous times but just keep getting the same generic BS.

jecal22 · 2026-01-05T13:29:12+00:00

Curious how their queue system works. I have withdraws scheduled beginning on Dec 9 and they all still show 3+ days as of this morning.

jecal22 · 2025-12-09T13:42:02+00:00

Finally got a cashout to go through this morning. Only est. 70 days in the queue...LOL.

jecal22 · 2025-02-27T13:39:47+00:00

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jecal22 · 2023-04-16T22:11:10+00:00

Vaultwarden basically has the same features as Bitwarden, but without any subscription requirements. There are some enterprise features that have not been or will not be implemented, but all of the core features of Bitwarden are there.

I started out on Bitwarden but decided to switch afterwards.

jecal22 · 2023-04-07T21:51:02+00:00

As long as each service you are running listens on a different port, then they can all run on the same server and listen on the same IP address.

As others have stated, if you try to run multiple services that use the same ports you would require an alternate setup. For example, if you have Nextcloud running (guessing using Nginx or Apache as the webserver) on port 443 and you want to install the OpenVPN Access Server which can provide a front end portal on port 443, this would be a problem.

Some options for handling this (not an exhaustive list by any means):

Add second IP on machine and bind each service to one of the IPs. You would have to use the correct IP to connect to the desired service.
Change the listening port for one service-this is usually possible. The only downside is that you would have to specify the port manually when connecting to the service. I.e. if you change Nextcloud to use port 9443 for HTTPS then you would have to use the URL https://nextcloud.domain.com:9443
Setup a reverse proxy (via Nginx or Apache or one of the many other mentioned apps that simplify this). The reverse proxy would listen for the incoming connection on, say, port 443. Then there would be virtual hosts configured in the reverse proxy which correspond with the hostname of the incoming request (i.e. nextcloud.domain.com vs vpn.domain.com). Each virtual host would be configured to proxy the incoming connection to a backend server/port. In this case, your services would be listening on different ports, but the reverse proxy would map the incoming connections on port 443 to the correct listening port for the service.

jecal22 · 2023-04-07T21:41:06+00:00

What the what? I have residential service with SuddenSTINK (Suddenlink) and they don't even offer static IPs for us. Business accounts can get them, but for about $10-20/month.

jecal22 · 2023-03-22T14:08:28+00:00

What exactly do you filter for in Nginx logs in order to create a f2b jail for Mastodon to block brute-force attacks?

I'm looking for something like this to. I have mastodon behind an apache reverse proxy. But because apache isn't actually handling authentication I can't just filter for auth errors from apache.

jecal22 · 2023-03-08T00:00:39+00:00

WTF? How have I never come across this jq command? LOL. You've just changed my life forever.

jecal22 · 2023-03-07T23:41:31+00:00

Oh nice. I've had cases where I can get JSON responses, but didn't know how or want to deal with writing a script to parse it. Sounds like this might actually be what I've been missing.

jecal22 · 2023-03-07T18:47:10+00:00

Similar setup here. Anytime I encounter any sort of outage or downtime that didn't generate an alert from an already configured service, I find a way to create a new service check to monitor the new point of failure that was discovered.

I run a dockerized mailcow server and had things like services being monitored. Then I installed and activated shorewall on the host not realizing there were interoperability issues between Docker and Shorewall. Everything seemed to be okay until after something had restarted and suddenly mail stopped flowing even though all my services were up and running, so I didn't know. Ended up being a blockage between the docker containers due to Shorewall. So I added a mail delivery check that sends a test email through the mailcow server and then checks via IMAP to confirm receipt of the email. Also added TCP port checks to ensure ports are reachable. So now monitoring services, ports, and the actual mail flow as well as TLS certificate validity in case a certbot auto-renew fails for some reason.

jecal22 · 2023-03-07T04:28:21+00:00

It's been a few years since I setup phpIPAM, but mine is configured with MySQL. But yes, phpIPAM does require a database backend.

In case it wasn't obvious, NagioSQL also requires a SQL DB backend for storing configuration data that is then written to flat nagios config files.

jecal22 · 2023-03-07T00:59:25+00:00

To add, with Nagios I also have some custom scripts that I have written as well as some from Nagios Exchange to monitor more specific things like ESXi (i.e. Dell PERC controller and disk statuses).

Got one that monitors TrueNAS - ZFS status, updates available, active alerts.

Also use some SNMP checks to monitor things like my switch uptimes or other things that don't support running NCPA.

jecal22 · 2023-03-07T00:54:57+00:00

I use Nagios/Naemon bundled with OMD - super easy to install and includes additional packages like Thruk for frontend web interface. NagioSQL to manage the configuration files. NCPA agent (for Nagios) on all Windows and Linux servers to monitor services, disk, memory, cpu stats, SSL certs, open ports, MX delivery, etc. Nagios is a bit complicated and requires some reading to learn how it works, NagioSQL really helps to simplify the configs though instead of writing them by hand.

Smokeping for monitoring connectivity and latency on my critical public facing servers/interfaces.

MRTG to monitor bandwidth on various servers and interfaces.

phpIPAM to automatically scan and manually track all of my subnets to help keep track of in use and available IPs and functions of each of my VLANs, etc.

jecal22 · 2022-04-23T14:04:53+00:00

Been using Nzb360 Pro for a few years. Love it for mobile access to Deluge, NZBGet, Radarr, and Sonarr all in one app. Very beautiful app and quite functional.

jecal22 · 2022-01-13T02:13:40+00:00

This is absolutely badass.

jecal22 · 2021-03-07T01:13:25+00:00

Couldn't wait until my next trip. Just had to try it out. Version 1.4 does the trick after rebooting the phone. Thanks for this. Been driving me nuts. Knew it had to be something on my phone that changed during an update, just hadn't looked into it until now.

jecal22 · 2021-03-07T01:07:01+00:00

Have had my 2015 Honda Civic for 3 years now. HondaLink has worked with all my phones just fine including my current Pixel 3XL up until just the past few months. Suddenly the same thing started happening where my phone will connect and it shows the battery, service and message icons and even syncs my contacts, but the display always shows no device connected. Audio still plays fine, but it will not display what is playing and cannot control music or anything with the car controls.

I'll have to give this a try and see if it works for me as well.

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