Though, most of the applications and services are still limited to CentOS, I would recommend everyone to try Rocky Linux instead of CentOS.

• 2 CPU cores
• 2 GB RAM
• 2TB disk
• Unlimited transfer on 100mbps
• or 4TB limit on 1gbps
• 1x IPv4
• IPv6 available by request

Let's start with the YABS

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Mon Jan 10 12:27:06 EST 2022

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2593.867 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.8 GiB
Swap       : 1024.0 MiB
Disk       : 2.0 TiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 24.26 MB/s    (6.0k) | 152.11 MB/s   (2.3k)
Write      | 24.27 MB/s    (6.0k) | 152.92 MB/s   (2.3k)
Total      | 48.53 MB/s   (12.1k) | 305.03 MB/s   (4.7k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 163.50 MB/s    (319) | 158.09 MB/s    (154)
Write      | 172.19 MB/s    (336) | 168.61 MB/s    (164)
Total      | 335.70 MB/s    (655) | 326.70 MB/s    (318)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 942 Mbits/sec   | 915 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 921 Mbits/sec   | 912 Mbits/sec  
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | busy            | 912 Mbits/sec  
WebHorizon      | Singapore (400M)          | 177 Mbits/sec   | 167 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.19 Gbits/sec  | 955 Mbits/sec  
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 1.07 Gbits/sec  | 940 Mbits/sec  
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 881 Mbits/sec   | 849 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 375 Mbits/sec   | 881 Mbits/sec  

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 560                           
Multi Core      | 1063                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/12097158

I am not bothered about I/O speeds, since it is a HDD and also a server that is used for remote backups. Connectivity was the main point. I switched the setting to the 1Gbps with 4TB limit instead of the unlimited 100mbps. The above speeds clearly indicate a good network. The uptime of the server (service provisioned since Jan 10) is at 100%.

This is my third server with Servarica. The newer 2TB servers are more responsive than a 1.5TB server I have from 2 years ago. I attribute it to newer hardware. As a backup server, I would recommend them. Do any of you have experience with this provider? Comments welcome

The online chat is outsourced to India and provides no help.

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OpenInbox has two main focuses.

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If folks are interested, I will do a write-up on how to set this up.

Getting storage servers on deals, I have about 7.5TB spread across 4 servers (1x1.5TB Servarica, 1x2TB Servarica, 2x2TB Greencloud), I need to make about 20 $STORJ per month to be profitable. Sometimes it is frustrating, I had to reset the 1.5TB Servarica node twice in two years, losing about 10 $STORJ in the process. I have my reservations, but for some reason, I am persisting with this. It appears easier to mine than CHIA or FILECOIN

Also, I would be interested in a hosting option that would allow us the ability to have a hard-coded site as a sub-domain with access to a separate MySQL database.

Our current hosting package is just for a Wordpress site.

After reading through their incomplete documentation online, I decided to pay for support and open a ticket. I was very forthcoming about what I needed, provided all requested info, and even offered to pay for whatever support was needed. Here is their response:

"There is a simple assistance request for updating your membership when you change your name. Although there's a nominal fee ($1) for that, we typically waive it unless the person blatantly lied to us about their name. Despite the bold print warning telling you not to, you went a different route.

The issue is that your old membership doesn't have a subscription, but your new one does. There would have been a $30 cost to upgrade the old one, for all the reasons described on our site. So, violating our policies saved you $30."

After this snarky response from them, my account was closed without warning and I have been unable to get a response from their team since.

Thankfully I only used NFS as a domain registrar for personal use, so no damage was done to business assets.

After several months they canceled my server for supposedly finding "copyrighted" material. My money wasn't refunded.

At that point support only responded with automated messages. The content of my website wasn't in any way illegal.

This has happened to several customers who have posted similar stories online about Flaunt7.

Just had the worst experience with BlueHost. Paid for the domain, clicked my email link to verify. Went to create an account, entered a solid password.
This is when the problems started. It didn't let me login, just kept giving me an error that said "account is being created please try password again in a few minutes." I kept trying different passwords and waiting a few minutes, after an hour I contacted support. Ended up talking with 4 different people and none were able to help at all. One just said to try in a different browser, which I had to download just to use their pos site, that didn't work. Another one said it was because my account "wasn't created right" wtf? When I clearly got charged so my card went through and all my information was correct. Anyways I ended up wasting 2.5 hours of my time & my clients money, I asked them to cancel may account and give me a full refund. They said they couldn't because they needed the last 4 digits of my password. B*tch that's why Im here, cuz it didn't let me create a password!

So now I can't work on my clients site for the rest of the day, and have to wait 48 hours for them to cancel my account and release the domain name so I can start all over again, this time on a different hosting site of course. I don't want anyone to ever go through this BS again. They seem to offer okay features which is why I went with them, however their login process is straight trash- apparentlyI am not the only one who's had issues. also their customer service is horrible slow and did not help me at all. I had to practically beg them o cancel my account they kept saying "gIvE mE a CoUplE MinUtEs To ChEcK sOmEtHinG" but never were able to solve it. So yea, take it from me and stay away from BlueHost. Worst customer experience ever, hope they actually give me a refund.

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