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Looking for a dedicated server. Any location is acceptable. Ryzen 7950X/9950X 96GB 2TB+ NVMe Dedicated 5Gbps or 10Gbps unmetered port Native routed IPv6 /64 Expected traffic: up to 60TB/day or 1.8PB/month combined Please include the monthly price, setup fee, location, port restrictions. PM me or reply with your offer. Thanks.

Note on all transfers: It is assumed that you have an existing account in good standing and abide by all providers' ToS All prices are in USD and all payment via standard Paypal transfer only (no FnF) In the unforeseen event that transfer fails for any reason not due to buyer's account issue(s), nett payment received will be refunded in full, excluding any applicable fees Greencloudvps HK Virtfusion CPU: 2 Core EPYC Milan Ram: 2048 MB Storage: 44 GB (NVMe RAID 10) Traffic: 1.5TB @ 10gbps Billing Cycle: USD $60 / 3 years Transfer Fee: USD $10 Next Due Date: 18th October 2027 Price: USD $43 inclusive transfer fee ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Yet-Another-Bench-Script v2025-04-20 https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## Mon Dec 8 10:09:27 AM +08 2025 Basic System Information: Uptime : 2 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes Processor : AMD EPYC-Milan Processor CPU cores : 2 @ 2445.404 MHz AES-NI : ✔ Enabled VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled RAM : 1.9 GiB Swap : 0.0 KiB Disk : 43.3 GiB Distro : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Kernel : 6.1.0-34-amd64 VM Type : KVM IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online IPv6 Network Information: ISP : Leaseweb Hong Kong Limited ASN : AS133752 LEASEWEB HONG KONG LIMITED Host : Leaseweb Hong Kong Limited Location : Wan Chai, Wan Chai (HWC) Country : Hong Kong fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda3): Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS) Read 242.09 MB/s (60.5k) 3.35 GB/s (52.4k) Write 242.73 MB/s (60.6k) 3.37 GB/s (52.7k) Total 484.83 MB/s (121.2k) 6.73 GB/s (105.1k) Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS) ------ --- ---- ---- ---- Read 4.67 GB/s (9.1k) 5.03 GB/s (4.9k) Write 4.92 GB/s (9.6k) 5.37 GB/s (5.2k) Total 9.59 GB/s (18.7k) 10.40 GB/s (10.1k) iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4): Provider Location (Link) Send Speed Recv Speed Ping Clouvider London, UK (10G) 734 Mbits/sec 856 Mbits/sec 193 ms Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G) 802 Mbits/sec 961 Mbits/sec 263 ms Uztelecom Tashkent, UZ (10G) 572 Mbits/sec 706 Mbits/sec 237 ms Leaseweb Singapore, SG (10G) 4.01 Gbits/sec 1.82 Gbits/sec 36.7 ms Clouvider Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) 982 Mbits/sec 1.11 Gbits/sec 151 ms Leaseweb NYC, NY, US (10G) 689 Mbits/sec 319 Mbits/sec 204 ms Edgoo Sao Paulo, BR (1G) 372 Mbits/sec 478 Mbits/sec 315 ms iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6): Provider Location (Link) Send Speed Recv Speed Ping Clouvider London, UK (10G) 728 Mbits/sec 536 Mbits/sec 193 ms Eranium Amsterdam, NL (100G) 508 Mbits/sec 591 Mbits/sec 263 ms Uztelecom Tashkent, UZ (10G) 554 Mbits/sec 462 Mbits/sec 237 ms Leaseweb Singapore, SG (10G) 3.82 Gbits/sec 5.13 Gbits/sec 36.7 ms Clouvider Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) 981 Mbits/sec 1.00 Gbits/sec 154 ms Leaseweb NYC, NY, US (10G) 682 Mbits/sec 409 Mbits/sec 204 ms Edgoo Sao Paulo, BR (1G) 390 Mbits/sec 295 Mbits/sec 315 ms Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test: Test | Value | Single Core | 1420 Multi Core | 2575 Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/15449695

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Just got this from @DartNode - seems the cheap dedis are safe, but other black friday style offers look to be going up: Howdy All! We have some news we would rather share with you directly than have you find on an invoice. DartNode prices are going up. This is the first time we have raised prices in two years. We held out as long as we could, because keeping DartNode affordable has always been the whole point. But the cost of running the network has climbed steadily over those two years, on power, transit, bandwidth, hardware, and space, and we are at the point where we need to bring pricing back in line with what it actually costs to keep everything running well for you. Here is exactly what happens and when: New services ordered from today forward are billed at the new rates. Anything you already have stays at your current price until its first renewal on or after September 1, 2026. Warehouse deals are not changing at all. You keep your rate for as long as you keep the service. And if you would like to hold your current price a while longer, you can pre-pay 12 months on any existing service and lock in today's rate for the full term. That option is sitting in your dashboard through August 15, 2026. Your new rates are in there too, if you want to see what changes for you before you decide anything. We know this is not the email anyone wants to get. A lot of you have been with us for years, and we do not take that lightly. If you have a question about your account, or you just want to talk through your options, reply to this or open a ticket. A real person here will get back to you. Thank you for being with us. The DartNode Team

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I’m a data scientist who don't have much cloud pipeline experience. Recently, I've been asked to built a local PoC for extracting scenes, characters, and objects from video using a mix of computer vision(FFMpeg/face detection/scene detection) and Gemini (LLM) . The pipeline is modular: a pipeline.py orchestrates several Python modules that each represent a stage. To keep things idempotent, every stage writes name-coded artifacts to disk so already-processed items get skipped on re-run. I also added retry loops for flaky Gemini calls, stage-level retries, and per-stage logging that captures tokens and timing into the artifacts. Now management wants this on GCP so downstream projects (dashboards, chatbots) can consume the output. For now, the ask is simply to land the final text results in BigQuery. The source videos will arrive in a GCS bucket from a third party. My confusion is around architecture. Throwing everything into a single monolithic Cloud Run function feels wrong, especially with the stateful/idempotent requirements. When I asked Claude, it suggested rolling my own database-backed queue and state machine, but I would assume GCP already has managed services that handle this kind of workflow natively. I’m struggling to find clear, up-to-date information. Google searches mostly turn up generic AI-generated posts or outdated articles. What’s the right GCP-native approach here? I’m trying to understand whether I should be looking at Cloud Workflows, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Dataflow, or maybe a combination of Cloud Run jobs and Pub/Sub. Asking AI(Claude) seems to hate Cloud Workflows and suggest custom baking a state queue in database. How do people typically preserve per-stage artifact-based idempotency and retries without building a custom state engine from scratch? How to control re-runs/pause/resume of the workflow? Would something like Firestore for state + GCS for artifacts + Cloud Run jobs triggered by Pub/Sub be a reasonable pattern, or am I missing a more purpose-built service? Any pointers from folks who’ve done similar video or document processing pipelines on GCP would be appreciated. submitted by /u/MobileOk3170 [link] [comments]

OpenAI recently reduced GPT-5.6 Luna pricing, and DeepSeek also lowered its direct API pricing. However, Azure AI Foundry still seems to show the previous pricing (or it's not clear). Has anyone seen the new pricing reflected in Azure billing or the pricing page yet? If yes, which region/subscription are you using? submitted by /u/maa____z [link] [comments]

I recently got pulled into my bosses office for clicking on too many phishing emails. I'm not perfect I know that I can make mistakes but they showed me the emails and they were the most blatant spam emails ever. Then it occured to me that those were emails that I reported as phishing. They didn't know what I was talking about and they said that they tag any emails that were interacted with as security alerts. Literally all that I did was report as phishing. The email that he showed me even says that he got a security alert. Everything that I have found online says that if you report an email as phishing it sends the security team an alert just like the one that he showed me. Can someone tell me what this looks like for the admin side and also confirm that that is what you are supposed to do with phishing emails? submitted by /u/Gess97 [link] [comments]

I built a mobile first, vtt, terminal app. I do a lot of work from my phone and ttyd wasn't cutting it. Termius is nice but no voice so I had to do my own thing. It's an open source project (still in development) but I thought others might get some use out of it. Sovereign Terminal anyway, cheers. P.s. I read the rules and I didn't think this would be considered advertisement, but if it is just take it down. submitted by /u/magealexstra [link] [comments]

"Latency" is my answer to the Fermi Paradox. As species become more intelligent, develop digital technologies, and their equivalent of the Internet, they become interconnected . Interconnectivity is limited by the speed of light. Even here in Australia, the "lag" is very palpable. Conversely, whenever I visit the US, suddenly every web site provide instant satisfaction instead of frustrating delays. As the speed of artificial intelligence increases, these delays become exponentially limiting. There's a point where you want to be in the same city, or even the same data centre as everything and everybody else. (US-East-1 comes to mind.) Why would anyone voluntarily isolate themselves from the interconnected web, separated by positively glacial light-minutes, hours, or... gasp... centuries! If the speed of light is an insurmountable barrier, then nobody in their right mind[1] would cut themselves off like this, from everything and everyone else. Even huge "generational ships" would be like... a small rural country town compared to a glittering, vibrant city. No matter how much static information you crammed into its computers, no matter how much entertainment you brought with you, it would be less than that available on the home planet. It's simple incentives: Why would anyone choose solipsism and isolation, at huge cost and risk, for effectively zero upside!? Space is not the wild west. There are no prairies, no fertile lands, no rivers to fish. Certainly not in the relative sense compared to the towering cultural edifice that a multi-million-year-old civilisation could build up on their home planet. Imagine being an artist, or a performer working at some cultural centre of the world like Broadway moving into the middle of totally empty desert. "Woo! Isolation! No crowds! No fellow performers! No money! Yay! Finally!" -- said nobody ever. [1] The corollary is that any members of a species willing to head out into the vast cold uncaring abyss of deep space are insane to a significant degree. Space is filled by crazy, dangerous aliens. The sane ones stayed at home!

Disclosure first: I wrote the tool I mention here. It is free, there is no signup, and I am posting because the testing method is the interesting part. Mods, delete it if this is not welcome. I got tired of IaC tools that validate templates and call it a day. A template can be perfectly valid and still blow up on deploy. So I did it the slow way: 20 scenarios per cloud, each one deployed for real, exercised at runtime, then destroyed. CRUD APIs, queue workers, private databases, Redis, WAF, websockets, fan-out, secrets, containers behind load balancers. It took months and burned a lot of free tier. Some of what I hit: A brand new GCP project gives you a compute service account with no roles at all. Your first deploy dies inside Cloud Build with an error that tells you nothing. Took me a while to figure that one out. Cloud SQL with private IP is fine until you destroy it. The service networking peering can hold for half an hour after the instance is gone. And if your app created tables, the default postgres user cannot be dropped, so the destroy hangs there too. Cosmos DB speaks the Mongo protocol but rejects sort() on any field without an index. Real MongoDB just sorts. If you port a handler over, your list endpoint breaks and the error message talks about order-by item paths. Azure Functions on the consumption plan will happily deploy a Service Bus worker that never runs. The zip lands, the function exists, messages pile up in the queue. You have to sync the function triggers explicitly or the scale controller never looks at the queue. Memorystore Redis with TLS needs the CA cert handed to the client or the handshake fails. Every one of those turned into a fix in the tool, so a fresh project starts with them already handled. That is the whole point of doing it this way instead of trusting a linter. Repo if you want to look: https://github.com/Claudio-Fontes/iacmp It is Fair Source (FSL-1.1, same license Sentry uses). Free for any use including at work, you just cannot resell the tool itself, and each release turns into Apache-2.0 after two years. Happy to talk about the e2e battery itself. If you have run something similar, I want to hear which scenarios you would add. submitted by /u/iacmp [link] [comments]

Has anyone found a real escalation path past AWS billing support? AWS’s own AI told me: “I’ve confirmed that your account is eligible for a refund.” It instructed me to apply after June 4. I followed those instructions and opened a case on June 9. Now AWS says the AI’s statement means nothing. The dispute is over $527.04 for Fast Snapshot Restore. AWS says I explicitly enabled it from my authenticated console session. Fine. But to this day, I still could not tell you where the FSR control is. I did not even know what FSR was until this bill appeared. I deleted the gaming instance and all three experiment volumes on May 4. FSR somehow survived that teardown and kept billing until May 31. About $474 accumulated after I had already deleted the experiment. My available CloudTrail history shows no apparent volume created from the FSR-enabled snapshot. AWS has not identified one. Instead, support waited more than five weeks, declared the decision “FINAL,” threatened suspension, collections, and possible credit impact, and stonewalled every substantive question. They claim a supervisor reviewed it—but will not say who, when, what evidence was reviewed, whether FSR was ever used, or why their own AI explicitly told me I was eligible for a refund. AWS’s apparent position is: follow our AI’s instructions, but bear the entire cost when those instructions are wrong. Has anyone reached an actual independent billing reviewer? What exact route worked? submitted by /u/kevinh456 [link] [comments]

We recently deployed Imunify Security Plugin to test how their recent bot protection and WAF works, but found that load was raised for several accounts, and that it shows errors with PHP 8.4. Anyone else has experience testing differences? Liked Monarx approach that do not install anything at client sites, same as CPGuard, don't like the idea to have to install a mu-plugin at each client site to provide better security.

$85,000. That’s the cost of a fraud incident that hit us as a long term partner and reseller for Google Cloud this month. A customer who was a lead through the partner directory did reach out for invoice billing, signed a contract, had his data and info submitted and got assigned a billing account. As per our normal procedures for new clients, a 200$ budget alert is set until a customer builds up history. The customer was apparently one of those crypto miner fraud cases where they spun up 10+ different projects with 10s of VMs for crypto mining in the matter of hours racking up almost 85K$ of consumption before we were able to shut it down when we got the alerts. When you’re a Google Cloud reseller, you aren’t just a vendor; you’re the first line of defense. But we are currently operating in a system that lacks basic structural safeguards for partners. We were hit by an account abuse incident that went from 0 to $85k in roughly 24 hours. The most frustrating part? It wasn't for a lack of our diligence. It was a failure of the platform's tools to keep up with reality. No Hard Spending Caps: There is no "stop" button that prevents a reseller’s account from being leveraged into bankruptcy by bad actors. Delayed Alerts: Budget alerts are a great concept for predictable monthly usage, but they are utterly ineffective against high-intensity, automated fraud. By the time the alert hits, the damage is already locked into the billing cycle. This wasnt the first case, we had customer cases of API Keys being leaked and abused racking up tens of thousands for customers in damages, which always cited as customer's responsibility. It doesnt make sense when the customer and the partner has no control to cap spending! Spending Caps feature was only introduced this month ( https://docs.cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-spend-caps ) We are working through the recovery process, and I expect better from a partnership that values the "Partner Network" label. If we are expected to bring customers to the cloud, Google Cloud needs to provide the hard limits that keep partners safe from catastrophic, automated fraud. It’s time to move past "best practices" and start implementing "hard protections." Until now we havent been able to resolve the case as we keep being bounced between billing support and account managers, each claims the other has jurisdiction but its extremely frustrating that we get to be the party paying up for such issues with the margins we do on reseller with almost zero protection! submitted by /u/BigKozman [link] [comments]

Hello guys, i live in iran and right now the most stable method for creating a vpn tunnel between an iran server and a foreign server is via asymmetric src header forging (spoofing), in short you forge your foreign server ip to a whitelisted ip (for example an iranian cdn ip) and you forge the iranian server ip to a whitelisted ip (for example an iranian gov site ip). i'm looking for providers that let you do this, and i'd appreciate it if they can offer dedicated servers with 10Gbps+ Network Links. Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone, I recently shifted to another provider, so I'm putting my dedicated server up for transfer. Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 | 128 GB DDR | 2TB NVME 1Gbps Unmetered Renewal: 69$ Per Month It’s a dedicated server from DartNode's Dart Day Special. Since it’s dedicated and unmanaged, performance and reliability is solid so far. Server Details & Terms: Provider: DartNode Next Renewal Date: August 1, 2026 Asking Price: $50 Payment Method: Crypto only

Hey All - Hope everyone is well! Presently looking for an 8 vCPU VPS for a self-hosted project. looking for US East Coast - Chicago or Texas hosting running Ubuntu... Flexible on exact hardware, but aiming for around ~$65/year or monthly equivalent Requirements & Ideally specs: CPU: 8 vCPU Min RAM: 8GB Storage: 80GB+ SSD NVMe Bandwidth: 5TB – 10TB on 1Gbps port Location: US East Coast - Chicago & Texas OS: Ubuntu firm Budget: ~$65/year recurring // monthly equivalent Open to custom promo links, leftover event codes, wahtever you can get me Reps/Providers: feel free to drop links or PM me if you can match or get close. Thank you all ever so much in advance! Best, -G

Hello! From the old days, even long before MetalVPS.com started in 2020, I have shared shell accounts on my servers. I've had tons of fun learning a little from the guys with whom I have shared! Shell accounts on a new-to-me, rented from Quickpacket , dual E5 Ashburn server presently might be available if anyone here wants both to share the server with me and to help fund it. Specifications 2 x E5-2690v4 (28c/56t), 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 2 x 960 GB SSD, 1 x IPv4, more available, 1 x IPv6/64 and 1 x IPv6/48 HE Tunnelbroker.net, 250TB at 10G, FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT, ZRAID 1, Ashburn, VA USA, and $85/month. What I recently have been doing on the server is following and, once or twice a week, self-bulding FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT. Here is example compile output: root@qp:/usr/src # grep '>>>' nohup.out | grep -v gtest | grep -v gmock >>> World build started on Sat Aug 1 04:13:49 UTC 2026 >>> Rebuilding the temporary build tree >>> stage 1.1: legacy release compatibility shims >>> stage 1.2: bootstrap tools >>> Deleting stale dependencies... >>> Deleting stale dependencies... >>> stage 2.3: build tools >>> stage 3: cross tools >>> stage 3.1: recording build metadata >>> stage 4.1: building includes >>> stage 4.2: building libraries >>> stage 4.3.1: building lib32 shim libraries >>> stage 4.4: building everything >>> World build completed on Sat Aug 1 04:59:12 UTC 2026 >>> World built in 2723 seconds, ncpu: 56, make -j56 >>> Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Aug 1 04:59:12 UTC 2026 >>> stage 1: configuring the kernel >>> stage 2.3: build tools >>> stage 3.1: building everything >>> Kernel build for GENERIC completed on Sat Aug 1 05:01:58 UTC 2026 >>> Kernel(s) GENERIC built in 166 seconds, ncpu: 56, make -j56 root@qp:/usr/src # Besides following FreeBSD-CURRENT, I have been learning a little about testing network performance with iperf3 and optimizing via sysctl. I might add a web server. Maybe an SMTP server too. Maybe VPS hosting capabilities. A long term goal continues: learn a little about C, assembly, and sh. Thanks everyone! Best wishes! How to Get Shell Access Please post in this thread: What are you working on? Do you have a website? Do you have a source code repository? What do you want to run on our server? How much server resources will you use? How extensively do you want to fund our server's $85/month cost? Do Paypal and Zelle work for you? Terms of Service Free and open source software only. White hat only. For computer education and fun! Not for commercial use. No service level agreement. Warnings! Ephemeral. Could disappear at any moment! Clueless™ Administrator - ZFS and FreeBSD noob!

We have casual warehouse employees who only need access to a single Microsoft 365 application from shared devices. The obvious options appear to be: - Individual licensed accounts, likely Microsoft 365 F3 - Entra B2B guest accounts Assuming neither option is accepted by the business, are there any other compliant and cost-effective licensing models worth investigating? We want to avoid generic/shared accounts because of security, MFA and auditability. I’m mainly trying to establish whether there’s a legitimate frontline, usage-based or application-specific option I’ve overlooked—or whether the answer is simply that each employee needs their own licensed identity. submitted by /u/lubrication4 [link] [comments]

I'm looking for a dedicated server in the Columbus / Central Ohio metro area. The only non-negotiable requirement is network latency to AWS us-east-2 . Everything else is flexible. Must-have ≤2 ms TCP RTT to AWS us-east-2 Anything above ~3 ms unfortunately won't work for my workload. Preferred Hardware CPU: High single-thread performance (Ryzen 9950X / 9950X3D or similar). Around 16 cores is plenty. RAM: 64 GB minimum, 128 GB preferred (DDR5) Storage: Local NVMe only (no SAN/Ceph/network storage), at least 1 TB usable Network: 1 Gbps unmetered minimum, 10 Gbps preferred. Low jitter is more important than bandwidth. OS: Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 with full root access. IPMI/KVM would be a plus. Budget $300-$500/month Willing to pay more for a proven sub-1 ms path to AWS us-east-2. Ready to deploy immediately. Current Setup My current server is: Ryzen 9 9950X 249 GB DDR5 2× 1.92 TB Micron 7400 NVMe 10 Gbps The hardware is excellent, but it's located in Ashburn and I'm seeing around 17 ms RTT to AWS us-east-2 , which is too high for this application. If anyone knows a provider—or operates infrastructure—in Columbus/Central Ohio with verified low-latency connectivity to AWS us-east-2, I'd really appreciate any recommendations. Thanks!