Comment by 🚀 stack

Thank you.

I had tried a few links from lowendbox, but they were bullshit, $55 discount from $60/mo for first 3 months kind of scams. I will try your links

Sep 08 · 3 months ago

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@ingrix: at RamNode, do you need to buy their 'ddos-filtered IP address' or is there an 'unfiltered' one for free? I could not figure it out frowm their website

edit: I think it is labeled optional in the billing page...

@stack I assume you don't have to buy it. unless it's included in what I use already (which is nothing fancy, normal cloud server stuff) I have never purchased that service and still have my sites online.

Odd things happening:

After userid/password/CAPCHA/TOTP, I get "invalid credentials. Try again later or <SIGN IN>", the latter being a button. It took me a while to realize that clicking the button actually just lets you in!

A few times I got a dialog box telling me I've been logged off. Dismissing it gets me right back in

Strange indeed...there's ghosts in these machines...

I did AWS and Google for a few years, especially if you can use the free-tier stuff, might as well take their money. Then I decided I wanted an ultra cheap VPS hosted in Canada with non-US ownership (for reasons) and actually good specs. I went with OVH and haven’t been happier. 2 vCpus, plenty of storage, ram, and “unlimited” bandwidth. The admin interface for all these options are terrible. Maybe digital ocean is okay, but you only suffer through it very occasionally.

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