This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings in the entry level ~$5.00 per month segment to refer to in an upcoming roundup. Hetzner CPX11 (AMD Epyc) €3.49 (~ $ 4.12) per month Processor: 2 vCore Memory: 2 GB Storage: 40 GB SSD Public bandwidth: 2TB Transfer Geekbench … Read More
This week I will benchmark VPS instances from providers I work with or have recently worked with in the entry level segment ~ $5.00 a month to see where we are at. I will refer back to this in a comparison post. Trabia VDS-1G VPS €5 (~ $5.90) per month Processor: 1 vCore Memory: 1 … Read More
This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings in the entry level ~$5.00 per month segment to refer to in an upcoming roundup. Vultr High Frequency Compute Cloud Instance $ 6.00 per month Processor: 1 vCore Memory: 1 GB Storage: 32 GB SSD SATA Public bandwidth: 1TB at … Read More
This is part of a series of posts where I will benchmark some VPS offerings from providers I work with or have recently worked with in the entry level segment ~ $5.00 a month to see where we are at. I will refer to them in an upcoming comparison. Vultr SSD Cloud Instance $ 5.00 … Read More
This week I will benchmark VPS instances from providers I work with or have recently worked with in the entry level segment ~ $5.00 a month to see where we are at. Just the stats initially. Later I will provide some more depth and refer back to this. OVH Cloud Starter $3.50 per month Processor: … Read More
Cloudflare Registrar Services allows for the registration of many TLD at wholesale pricing. Traditionally this came with the requirement to use Cloudflare services, at least the free tier to manage the domain. In other words the domain was delegating to Cloudflare’s name servers and this was not negotiable. Today this is no longer the case. … Read More
Release notes state that ZFS on Linux is shipping with Ubuntu 20.04. Nice. But encryption capability is not integrated into ubiquity – the graphical installer. OOB ZFS is not available with root FS encryption. But making it work is super easy thanks to Sean Reifschneider who modified a gist that Garrett Fields had written for … Read More
Last month Microsoft announced the general availability of IPv6 on Azure. I thought this was excellent news. I had been waiting for this a long time and with much enthusiasm I logged into our Azure Portal. They have indeed taken IPv6 out of beta but there are some caveats worth mentioning. The COVID-19 stuff is … Read More
Citadelo have published this excellent post on how to optimize security when using Cloudflare to “protect” a domain. Some very good points re: OSINT mitigation are outlined. A good read!
Issue: On an install of FreePBX 14 with responsive firewall and OpenVPN server enabled there is no mitigation against brute force attacks against the OpenVPN server. /var/log/messages is getting spammed with failed handshakes: Feb 3 16:17:19 voipserver234 openvpn: Sun Feb 3 16:17:19 2019 103.37.x.x:49060 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]103.37.x.x:49060, sid=6a22eb44 5adb63fe Feb 3 16:17:19 voipserver234 … Read More