Two Days ago, DesiVPS sent email: Important Announcement – Data We regret to inform you of some significant developments that directly impact our services to you. Our upstream provider, Dedipath, has made the unfortunate decision to shut down their operations effective August 31, 2023. This unexpected announcement has given us very little time to adapt Continue Reading »
I have been a Vultr for a long long time (many many years). Vultr has offered a Free Tier Program. However, you have to register and get approved. Once approved, you can select a Free Tier instance at (Cloud Compute – Regular – Free Instance). Current Vultr users are likely to be approved for the Continue Reading »
I have 20+ servers, and I need to make sure they are safe, so here are the few steps I took to harden the security: Change SSH Port number you can configure Port XXX in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and remember to restart the ssd service to take effect: service sshd restart Disable root SSH login you can Continue Reading »
TLDR: with Hetzner Cloud Provider, you can run Blockchain (witness/producer) nodes if the chain is based on DPOS (Delegated Proof of Stakes) or POS (Proof of Stakes). However, the PoW (Proof of Work) and Plotting is not allowed. DPOS Blockchain example: Steem. POS Blockchain example: Ethereum (previously was PoW) POW Blockchain example: Bitcoin. Plotting: is Continue Reading »
Contabo VPS has offered options of choosing SSD and NVme. You can choose 100GB NVme or 400GB normal SSD. Using dd command to test writing/reading speed on 1GB file for NVme: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.22976 s, 482 MB/s Using Continue Reading »