Pegasus Epsilon
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The cheap purchase of a tiny virtual machine on decent pipe seemed like a good idea at the time. Sadly you do indeed get what you pay for. I've had decent uptime and connectivity lately, but I share your concerns when it comes to sudden random failures and a total lack of tech support.
One thing that may actually be helping me not suffer these days is the fact that I've gone with Debian, and after CAC gave me their default image, I uninstalled everything I absolutely didn't need, changed all the accounts around, switched to sid, and upgraded everything. Most hosting providers wouldn't support me at this point anyway, which is fine, since CAC pretty much doesn't out of the gate. But this, at least, gives me a reason to not feel so horribly bitter about it. Oh, I also don't ever give them my SSH password in their tech support form, either. That's just too fishy.
I used to have root on a little linux box in the closet of a NOC at a college somewhere in California that had essentially been forgotten. If you turned it off, it would be weeks before someone would turn it on again. If you failed an upgrade, you killed the machine forever. Running that machine was a similar experience to my CAC server.
The difference between CAC and that incredibly shady scenario is that they've got a remote console, reimage capablity, and people who, at least occasionally, send you messages about planned service interruptions, and eventually bother reading messages from you and then do essentially nothing about it.
Moral: Keep backups. Expect no support. Remember that you are a hacker, and at some point, even compared to the cheapest alternative hosting companies out there, your server is essentially free. Treating it like that forgotten server in a university closet is probably a good way to deal with it.
Also, if you need help with something linuxy in the future, hit me up. Super interested in hearing your forensic analysis of what exactly went wrong with your server.
One thing that may actually be helping me not suffer these days is the fact that I've gone with Debian, and after CAC gave me their default image, I uninstalled everything I absolutely didn't need, changed all the accounts around, switched to sid, and upgraded everything. Most hosting providers wouldn't support me at this point anyway, which is fine, since CAC pretty much doesn't out of the gate. But this, at least, gives me a reason to not feel so horribly bitter about it. Oh, I also don't ever give them my SSH password in their tech support form, either. That's just too fishy.
I used to have root on a little linux box in the closet of a NOC at a college somewhere in California that had essentially been forgotten. If you turned it off, it would be weeks before someone would turn it on again. If you failed an upgrade, you killed the machine forever. Running that machine was a similar experience to my CAC server.
The difference between CAC and that incredibly shady scenario is that they've got a remote console, reimage capablity, and people who, at least occasionally, send you messages about planned service interruptions, and eventually bother reading messages from you and then do essentially nothing about it.
Moral: Keep backups. Expect no support. Remember that you are a hacker, and at some point, even compared to the cheapest alternative hosting companies out there, your server is essentially free. Treating it like that forgotten server in a university closet is probably a good way to deal with it.
Also, if you need help with something linuxy in the future, hit me up. Super interested in hearing your forensic analysis of what exactly went wrong with your server.
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I think it's time to break Google+ again, with another 33Mpx image!
Here's something new: I'm deleting most people from my circles on here because it fucks up contacts/hangouts. +Google+, if you ever figure out the whole unified contact list thing properly, let me know.
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Watch G+ croak on this 33.1 Mpx image: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2846/9588283667_b7aa4e7c8a_o.png
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