I have an UltraVPS Storage-1 (1.5TB), and plan to use it with Cloudflare CDN for proper caching, mainly for small files.

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I did not take any troubleshooting steps. I also did not alter my DNS in any way. Overall, I took no actions that would create the problem or resolve the problem. This leads me to believe the hosting provider changed something on their end.

Eventually I communicated with the provider and received the following message:

DNS of your website is wrong. Please use our name servers not IP.

While I don't consider myself a newbie, I am puzzled by this instruction. Is anyone here willing to help me walk through the logic?

I didn't reply yet, for instance to ask if there's a reason why it worked before and then stopped working.

My domain names are registered where they are because I like the free DNS hosting the registrar provides with registration. Is the shared web hosting provider telling me to abandon my favorite DNS hosting just so that a web browser will display a web page?

Local ident: 'SSH-2.0-ssh2js1.16.0'
Client: Trying 104.168.74.xx on port xxxx ...

Timed out while waiting for handshake

https://billing.dedirock.com/clientarea.php
This page shows me my VPS is running/online.

Need HELP.

Forum I setup using LAMP stack locally, so then how to put on the the server and make the whole thing live?

I guess I have some mucking about to do with ssl certificates too?

I lost a folder from my inbox. How and what can I do?

I am expecting some serious help on an urgent basis.

This is not a complaint post about Namecrane but I still expect replies quicker @Francisco

If there are any problems please convey I expect a reply atleast.

I have been hosting some things for friends/family (not planning to host for randoms due to my TOS beeing abused as soon as people read it...)

Mainly Paperless with tripple daily independent backups, offline backups and i also offer google/s3 to the person's account. I basically made sure the data is redundant and not really dependent on me or on host X or Y existing. Shit can really hit the fan and data should exist.
plus paperless AI (chatgpt/local model)

also got a Windows VM for a friend for twitch streams and other things

I dont offer full VPS experience or anything for tech savvy people (unless you want only backups from me, then can offer that) but basically fully managed apps by me, i deal with backups, updated and security.

Was thinking to offer bitwarden but we all use 1password family and that's easier and more lucritive to me. Plus the person can harass 1password support instead of me.

what else could i host that makes sense for people ? google drive alternative didn't take off, was pretty expensive anyways... paperless solves a real problem here in germany.

Windows VM does not fit many due to performance (or rather, lack off)

ideas?

We're looking to add Alipay to our payment gateways, but Stripe in the UAE doesn't offer this feature, and it seems that Alipay isn't directly supported either.
Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks!

I got the free plan - I know it will be limited but I can buy a different package later or get a vps from another provider but want to try this first as the site will be a simple forum and no traffic yet so fine for testing at this stage - and do not see any kind of cpanel or such to control file transfer and the like.

I did see ftp details is that the only way? so just get the site how I want it locally and then upload to the hosting? I also didn't see how to manage databases, it said there should be a link on the left to take you to the page where the databases can be managed but the images in the article did not correlate to what I found on my dashboard.

I found a great deal on DeluxHost

• Specs: 3 vCore, 10 GB RAM, 50GB Primary disk, 5TB Storage, 1Gbit/s bandwidth for 11.99€ a month.

I really like this deal, but before that I want to see if anyone can go even under this price. My long term plan requires scaling all the way up to 20TB+ of storage, so Im looking for a provider that offers great pricing as I grow.

• Storage Type: Traditional HDD is perfectly fine. I do not need SSD or NVMe for the bulk storage.
• Network: 1 Gbit/s bandwidth minimum. ( unlimited )

Host nodes for Slow Servers are definitely on the small side, and they are a bit unusual. This manifests in plans and pricing.

I was wondering about making a fairly small adjustment to my node configuration and if it's something that would actually interest customers or not.

I designed the hosts to use as little power as possible, to be built off old hardware, and to work well with my choice of hypervisor (OpenBSD.) This is a bit of an unusual set of criterea.

This a reference node looks like this:

CPU: Opteron 4162EE (6 core, 1.7GHz)
Memory: 32GiB ECC
Storage: 1TB Samsung 850 PRO or 1TB Velicoraptor

This gives me multiples of 1GB of memory per 32GB of storage, which is certainly above average. I don't do the whole alacarte CPU/memory/disk -- it doesn't work well with small hosts.

One major limitation is that OpenBSD's VMM can only issue one vCPU, so anything genuinely CPU heavy is out. Another limitation is that OpenBSD's scheduling isn't great, and if every core is pegged, performance drops rapidly. So keeping a fairly generous core to VPS ratio is important.

While I've seen Xen run and schedule 256MB VPSs admirably (with 4 vCPUs, what the host had!), it just isn't OpenBSD's forte at the moment. And OpenBSD itself, if a guest, will swap much less than 768MB just on kernel relinking. So this puts me in an unusual category of low power/performance, but not capable of lots of very low power servers (think Tierhive.)

Ultimately, my pricing is simple, but high: $6/GB of memory, per 32GB disk. $1.50/month extra for IPv4.

What I realized is that for a small increase in power use, I could double the host memory with registered dimms (so 64GB per node instead of 32GB.) This wouldn't be that expensive up front. I'd have to double check power usage, but I'm guessing it would add a few watts. Now with this, I wouldn't want to host more VPSs. I would just offer more memory for roughly the same amount of money, basically.

The current smallest size is 768MB. So I might end up with a larger minimum size of 1.5GB of memory. Unless I increased disk space, it would then be 1GB memory/16GB disk.

So the smallest $4.50/month plan would get bumped up from 768MB to 1.5GB memory with 24GB of disk.

On the larger end of things, it becomes less useful -- when are you going to use more than 16GB of memory with one vCPU? I do currently use a 16GB / 512GB disk / 1 vCPU server succeessfully as a Monero now (on a Velociraptor, nonetheless!) Doubling that memory to 32GB seems useless in this application.

I could potentially add an extra drive at the same time, also increasing power usage but not tremendously. At that point I don't think I'd give twice as much for the same price -- I'd have to evaluate it.

I know a lot of people are happy with 512MB memory servers. Some are happy with 1GB. And some want more. But the ones that want more, do you also need more CPU to go with it? Or would this make my offering more usable?

Thank you!

PS: Here's my current reference node: https://slowservers.net/hosts/loki/
And some ramblings on pricing, if you just can't get enough of this long form content: https://slowservers.net/gemlog/2026-04-25-on-pricing.gmi

Do they even approve? Are these all automated replies?

I would like to understand the reason why some providers, such as Hetzner, can offer unlimited or free inbound traffic. As far as I know, Hetzner only counts outgoing traffic and includes it in the billing.

Is there a specific reason why some providers are able to offer this, while others include both inbound and outbound traffic in their billing?

Your VPS is not underutilized — it is:

❌ heavily CPU stolen (~40%) → host oversubscription

That is why you get delay even at “50% CPU”.

root@Static:~# ss -s
sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_count
sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max
top -bn1 | head -5
Total: 9200
TCP: 16913 (estab 8880, closed 7980, orphaned 39, timewait 7978)
Transport Total IP IPv6
RAW 1 0 1
UDP 78 2 76
TCP 8933 3546 5387
INET 9012 3548 5464
FRAG 0 0 0
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_count = 34467
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 262144
top - 15:09:41 up 19:57, 2 users, load average: 2.70, 3.67, 3.74
Tasks: 169 total, 1 running, 167 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 10.8 us, 9.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 38.5 id, 1.5 wa, 0.0 hi, 6.2 si, 33.8 st
MiB Mem : 7894.1 total, 5727.4 free, 1446.6 used, 974.5 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 1024.0 total, 1024.0 free, 0.0 used. 6447.5 avail Mem
root@Static:~#
and
15:11:00 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle 15:11:01 all 8.79 0.00 6.34 0.00 0.00 4.91 41.10 0.00 0.00 38.85 15:11:01 0 10.24 0.00 4.72 0.00 0.00 2.36 39.37 0.00 0.00 43.31 15:11:01 1 5.26 0.00 4.39 0.00 0.00 13.16 46.49 0.00 0.00 30.70 15:11:01 2 9.23 0.00 6.92 0.00 0.00 3.85 40.77 0.00 0.00 39.23
so here I am asking for some guidance on what's going on here

This needs a SolusVM VPS server and Cloud Server selling can hope?

Thanks

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a beginner-friendly VPS for my first self-hosted setup.

My main goal is to run a personal V2Ray/Xray server using protocols like VLESS, Trojan, Reality, or TLS, with some light and occasional torrenting on the side.

Requirements:

Budget:
Preferably under $5/month. I can stretch a little if the provider is genuinely worth it.

Main Usage:
Personal V2Ray/Xray server
Protocols like VLESS, Trojan, Reality, TLS
Light and occasional P2P/torrenting

Location:
Singapore strongly preferred for low latency.
Nearby Asia locations are okay only if the routing and latency are good.

Network and Policy:
Looking for a provider that allows P2P or is at least reasonably tolerant of light legal torrent traffic.
Good bandwidth, stable routing, and fewer strict abuse issues would be ideal.
Offshore or less strict DMCA handling is a plus.

Payment:
Credit/debit card support preferred.

Experience Level:
This is my first VPS, so I’m looking for something simple, reliable, and beginner-friendly.

I care more about stable performance, decent bandwidth, low latency, and reliability than high specs.

Any provider recommendations or personal experiences would be appreciated.

and i use that ppk file but i am unable to get login with new client on my server

and getting error

No supported authentication method available (server sent : publickey)
via putty

while i can do login into cloud panel
and other users as well

but unable to login in root user

@DeluxHost also don't have VNC access

need help ASAP

I’m running a small self-hosted mail server and I’m trying to understand whether this behavior is expected or if I’m missing something.

Environment

• FreeBSD 14 amd64
• OpenSSL 3.5.4 (base system)
• Postfix (SMTP/submission)
• Dovecot (IMAPS)
• DNSSEC + DANE enabled
• ECDSA Let’s Encrypt certificate
• IPv4 + IPv6
• TLS 1.0/1.1 disabled

Openssl : OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025
Lib link:
/usr/lib/libssl.so.35
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.35

Current TLS state:
nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers now shows only:

• CHACHA20_POLY1305
• AES-GCM
• TLS 1.2 / TLS 1.3 only
• X25519
• no CBC
• no CAMELLIA
• no 3DES

Everything negotiates correctly with SHA256+ during actual TLS sessions.

The issue:
Despite this, Internet.nl and LuxSci still complain about SHA1 signature algorithms being advertised in TLS 1.2.

Their wording is basically:
SHA1 signature algorithms are still advertised/supported for TLS 1.2.

I already added a custom OpenSSL policy in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf:
[ssl_sect]
system_default = system_default_sect
[system_default_sect]
MinProtocol = TLSv1.2
SignatureAlgorithms = ECDSA+SHA256:ECDSA+SHA384:ECDSA+SHA512:RSA-PSS+SHA256:RSA-PSS+SHA384:RSA-PSS+SHA512:RSA+SHA256:RSA+SHA384:RSA+SHA512

But scanners still report SHA1 advertisement capability.

Questions
1. Is this simply expected behavior with OpenSSL 3.x TLS 1.2 compatibility?
2. Does OpenSSL still advertise SHA1 internally even when stronger algorithms are preferred?
3. Has anyone successfully removed SHA1 advertisement entirely on FreeBSD/OpenSSL without disabling TLS 1.2?
4. Is this more of a scanner “policy warning” rather than a practical security issue?

The server already passes:

• SPF
• DKIM
• DMARC
• DANE
• MTA-STS
• STARTTLS
• modern ciphers
• ECDSA certs

Mail flow works correctly and negotiated sessions are using SHA256+.

Just trying to understand whether this is:

• normal OpenSSL behavior
• FreeBSD-specific
• Postfix-specific
• or something actually misconfigured.

Many Thanks

Location: anywhere with decent connectivity
CPU - as many as possible, but 2 should do.
RAM - 4GB would do, but is 8 possible?
Disk - SSD preferred, would LOVE NVMe. 100GB minimum
NW - 1GBps preferred, 500GB/ month should be enough

it will be always be behind tailscale, no public access, if it helps in anyway.

However, about a month ago, I requested a withdrawal of the affiliate commissions I’d earned through hard work to my PayPal account. They promised payment within 7–14 days, but it’s been over a month now, and when I messaged them again, no one responded! So I opened a new support ticket, but they simply told me to “continue waiting for service” and then closed my ticket.

I’ve seen many users on the LET forum reporting similar issues. I’m wondering if Cloudcone has lost all credibility and is planning to shut down and disappear? If anyone has any information, please let me know!

I’d also like to ask the official team to address this matter @Cloudcone

The non-profit is not sending a high quantity of emails per day (5-10 per day on average, in total), with around 7 email accounts. The disk space is not a problem (they usually download the emails and store locally, while keeping their accounts with only important data). The only requirement is to allow the use of mail clients (such as the mail client on android, or thunderbird) with the specific protocols. I am unable to find a service like this.

They used the free plan of Zoho, but it doesn't allow external mail clients.

Any advice is really appreciated! Thanks!

need to use whatsapp and looking for a throw away phone number helps me activate the app.

does anyone know of such service or if there is an alternative would be nice to know,

thanks for any help in advance
ehab

As for now HostDare.com and some other companies I tried ( forgot name) also do not offer it thus why I am asking the question here if anybody knows.

Best Regards.

I'm open to something else but don't want online version or anything bloated and complicated.
I have tried AWStats, its requires too many perl modules and looks cheesy.

Thanks

Usage:
720p OBS Live Streaming

Looking for the cheapest possible offer.
Please inbox me with pricing and available plans.

I am looking for genuine UK static residential proxies (Dedicated ISP) for e-commerce operations. Real local home broadband (e.g., Virgin Media, BT, Sky, TalkTalk) is absolutely critical for my use case.

Strict Requirements:

Type: UK Dedicated ISP / Static Residential IPv4.

ASN: Must be recognized as a genuine ISP, not Datacenter or Hosting.

rDNS: Valid Reverse DNS (PTR record) must be configured or configurable.

Cleanliness: Must pass Scamalytics (score < 10) and MXToolbox without blacklists.

Volume: I am looking to purchase multiple lines/IPs for long-term use.

Budget: Maximum $10 per IP per month.

Payment: I can pay via Cryptocurrency (Zcash/USDT).

I will need to verify the ASN and rDNS before purchasing in bulk. Datacenter IPs disguised as residential will be detected and rejected immediately.

Please PM me your offers or reply below if you can provide this specific setup. Thank you.

I am not criticising in anyway but just want to get some help. Apologies if I have misunderstood anything or done anything wrong, please point out.

So I started off wanting to transfer the service by changing my email address. I thought it is easier in this way so they can just go ahead and change the email but they rejected with good reasons related to security issues, fairs and I agreed.

Did some research and here https://pulsedmedia.com/clients/index.php/knowledgebase/76/Can-i-move-a-service-to-another-client.html and realised that stated it is fine to transfer a service to another client. Should have seen this in the first place.

So I went and closed the old ticket, opened a new one to request the service transfer.

Here is the screenshot of the ticket https://ibb.co/zhDWz6G0

Love the service, but please help. @PulsedMedia Thank you.

Current setup:

• Hetzner CCX13
• 2 dedicated vCPU / 8GB RAM
• around $22/month with backups

I'm looking for something cheaper and preferably in:

• France
• Spain
• Netherlands

Traffic is currently low, but I want a reliable long-term provider with very good uptime and stable performance.

I prefer Ryzen CPUs because WooCommerce benefits from strong single-core performance, but overall node quality and low overselling matter more to me.

Requirements:

• KVM virtualization
• NVMe storage
• good network latency to Morocco

Would appreciate recommendations from people with real experience.

Theres a lot of "weebs" and "furries" that are trying to convert me

please help me

if you post weeb stuff here i will report you to jon biloh the owner of the site and maybe colocrossing i sent him a dm once so we are pretty close

I’ve found many piracy sites use Cloudflare as a CDN, which by extension ‘masks’ the real origin IP.

Reading Cloudflare’s website, I’ve found that they forward DMCA takedown requests rather than act on it.

Does this mean that if the origin server is DMCA ignored, there is a certain level of ‘immunity’ to DMCA takedowns? I haven’t found this anywhere in Cloudflare terms, but does Cloudflare reveal your contact information to anyone who files a DMCA takedown, or will they only do this under court order?

Is it known that Cloudflare will deactivate your account due to DMCA complaints?

I have a bit of paranoia as I am currently hosting a small amount of document archives offshore and would like to ideally keep anonymity as well as ensure the operation of the site.

Is it a better idea to skip Cloudflare and just go straight to offshore server?

Cheers.

Do you have any programs like this? Open source / free / self-hosted only, please

A few days ago, my server suddenly became inaccessible via SSH, and Cloudflare also started returning 503 errors. I opened a support ticket, and after about a day they fixed it.

However, only two days later, the exact same problem happened again.

I checked the VPS itself:

sshd is running normally
port 22 is listening on 0.0.0.0
UFW allows 22, 80, and 443
from inside the VPS, it can connect to its own public IP on port 22 successfully
So this really does not look like a simple issue inside the VPS. It seems much more likely to be something on the provider side, such as networking, ACL, routing, host node, or public IP mapping.

What makes me even more uncomfortable is that support asked me for the root password in order to fix the issue. I’m not comfortable sharing the root password, especially when this appears to be a provider-side infrastructure problem rather than a basic guest OS issue.

Has anyone else experienced similar issues with DediRock recently?
And is it considered normal or acceptable for a VPS provider to ask for the root password in this kind of situation?

At this point I’m seriously considering moving to another provider, because I can’t keep dealing with the same issue every few days.

This document is based on a WireGuard intranet environment. All communications are restricted to the intranet, with no public ports exposed.
Operations are idempotent and can be executed repeatedly.

Network Architecture

Access Path: Local Browser → v2rayN(XHTTP) → CF CDN → cf/cf2 XRay → WG Intranet → task:8008

I. Master Installation (task server)

1.1 Install Docker (Skip if already installed)

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo sh
sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker

1.2 Deploy Komari Container

# Idempotent: Clean up old containers first
docker stop komari 2>/dev/null; docker rm komari 2>/dev/null

mkdir -p /opt/komari/data

docker run -d \
  -p 127.0.0.1:25774:25774 \
  -v /opt/komari/data:/app/data \
  --name komari \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/komari-monitor/komari:latest

1.3 View Initial Password (Generated only during initial DB creation)

docker logs komari 2>&1 | grep "Password"

⚠️ The password is only displayed during the first startup. To reset, delete /opt/komari/data/komari.db and recreate the container.

1.4 Reset Password (If forgotten)

docker stop komari && docker rm komari
rm -f /opt/komari/data/komari.db

docker run -d \
  -p 127.0.0.1:25774:25774 \
  -v /opt/komari/data:/app/data \
  --name komari \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/komari-monitor/komari:latest

# View new password
docker logs komari 2>&1 | grep "Password"

II. Nginx HTTPS Reverse Proxy (task server)

2.1 Install Nginx

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y nginx

2.2 Apply for Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificate (DNS Verification)

# Install acme.sh (Idempotent)
curl https://get.acme.sh | sh -s email=admin@xxxx.xxx
source ~/.bashrc

# CF API Token
export CF_Token="YOUR_CF_API_TOKEN"

# Apply for certificate
~/.acme.sh/acme.sh --issue --dns dns_cf \
  -d "*.xxxx.xxx" \
  -d "xxxx.xxx" \
  --keylength 2048

# Install certificate
~/.acme.sh/acme.sh --install-cert -d "*.xxxx.xxx" \
  --key-file /etc/nginx/komari.key \
  --fullchain-file /etc/nginx/komari.crt \
  --reloadcmd "systemctl reload nginx"

2.3 Configure Nginx

cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/nginx/sites-available/komari
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    '' close;
}

proxy_cache_path /tmp/komari_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=komari:10m max_size=100m inactive=60m;

# HTTPS - For browser access (Port 8008)
server {
    listen 10.10.0.1:8008 ssl;
    server_name jk.xxxx.xxx;

    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/komari.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/komari.key;

    # Static asset caching (Solves chunked transfer truncation issues under CF CDN)
    location /assets/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:25774;
        proxy_cache komari;
        proxy_cache_valid 200 1d;
        proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout;
        proxy_buffering on;
        proxy_buffer_size 128k;
        proxy_buffers 8 256k;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:25774;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
    }
}

# HTTP - For Agent intranet communication (Port 25774)
# Agents connect via WG intranet; no TLS needed to avoid cert validation issues
server {
    listen 10.10.0.1:25774;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:25774;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
    }
}
EOF

# Enable site and remove default
sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-available/komari /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/komari
sudo rm -f /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

III. DNS and Routing Configuration

3.1 Cloudflare DNS

Add A record: jk.xxxx.xxx → 10.10.0.1, Proxy status: Off (Grey cloud/DNS Only).

3.2 XRay Server Routing Rules (cf / cf2)

Add the following at the very beginning of the routing.rules array:

{
  "type": "field",
  "domain": ["domain:jk.xxxx.xxx"],
  "outboundTag": "direct-out"
}

⚠️ This must precede the geoip:private block rule; otherwise, intranet IPs will be blackholed.

Restart XRay:

sudo systemctl restart xray

3.3 v2rayN Client Routing

Ensure the routing rules in v2rayN route .xxxx.xxx or jk.xxxx.xxx through the proxy instead of a direct connection.

IV. Agent Installation (Monitored Nodes)

4.1 Panel Settings

Log in to [https://jk.xxxx.xxx:8008](https://jk.xxxx.xxx:8008), go to Settings, and set the Dashboard Address to:

http://10.10.0.1:25774

Note: Agents communicate via HTTP port 25774 to avoid certificate issues. Browser access remains via [https://jk.xxxx.xxx:8008](https://jk.xxxx.xxx:8008).

4.2 Add Nodes

1. Go to Servers → Add Node, add cf / cf2 / task / bwg.
2. Click the Download Icon next to the node to get the one-click installation command.
3. Recommended: Check Disable Remote Control (for security) and Ignore Unsafe Certificates (if using self-signed certs).

4.3 Execute Installation Command on Each Node

# Verify intranet connectivity first
curl http://10.10.0.1:25774

# Execute the installation command generated by the panel (URL should be http://10.10.0.1:25774)
# Example (Copy the actual command from your panel):
# wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/komari-monitor/komari-agent/refs/heads/main/install.sh \
#    | sudo bash -s -- -e http://10.10.0.1:25774 -t <TOKEN> --month-rotate 1

4.4 Uninstall Agent

sudo systemctl stop komari-agent
sudo systemctl disable komari-agent
sudo rm -f /etc/systemd/system/komari-agent.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo rm -rf /opt/komari/agent /var/log/komari

V. Security Hardening

5.1 Port Exposure Check

# Confirm public IP cannot access these ports
curl -I http://PUBLIC_IP:8008     # Should return Connection Refused
curl -I http://PUBLIC_IP:25774    # Should return Connection Refused

5.2 Architectural Security Points

• Docker binds only to 127.0.0.1:25774, not exposed to the public.
• Nginx HTTPS listens on 10.10.0.1:8008 (for browser access).
• Nginx HTTP listens on 10.10.0.1:25774 (for agent communication).
• Both ports are bound to the WG intranet interface; unreachable from the public internet.
• Agents communicate via WG intranet [http://10.10.0.1:25774](http://10.10.0.1:25774) (no certificate required).
• Users access via XRay proxy chain to HTTPS:8008; no direct external path.
• XRay routing still blocks geoip:private except for the explicitly allowed 10.10.0.0/24.

VI. Common Operations

# View Master status
docker ps | grep komari
docker logs komari --tail 20

# Restart Master
docker restart komari

# Update Master
docker pull ghcr.io/komari-monitor/komari:latest
docker stop komari && docker rm komari
docker run -d \
  -p 127.0.0.1:25774:25774 \
  -v /opt/komari/data:/app/data \
  --name komari \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/komari-monitor/komari:latest

# Backup Data
cp -r /opt/komari/data /opt/komari/data.bak.$(date +%Y%m%d)

# View Nginx status
sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo tail -20 /var/log/nginx/error.log

# Certificate Renewal (acme.sh renews automatically; manual trigger below)
~/.acme.sh/acme.sh --renew -d "*.xxxx.xxx" --force

VII. Troubleshooting

I’ll be streaming daily for around 10–12 hours, so I need something stable and reliable.

Requirements:

• Windows option available (I will use my own license)
• Good performance for OBS streaming
• Budget-friendly preferred
• Any region is fine

Please let me know if you have something suitable to offer. Thank you!

I would like to ask for advice regarding an unresolved issue with BuyVM.

Timeline:

• My original VPS service was cancelled.
• Since the payment was made through Alipay, the balance was converted into account credit instead of being refunded.
• Support later manually provisioned a replacement VPS for me.
• However, the replacement VPS was removed again shortly afterward.
• The account credit has already been deducted, but there is currently no active VPS service available in my account.
• I followed up through the support ticket, but I have not received a response for more than 72 hours.

I understand that smaller providers may sometimes experience delays, and I am not trying to create drama. I would simply appreciate clarification regarding the deducted balance and the missing VPS service.

Support Ticket ID: #117619

Thank you.

I have reach out to you all in a hope of getting some help after getting no response from Dartnode.

I am a student and love self hosting stuffs and I am a customer since August Iast year. Besides an issue with their ipv6 routing few months ago I never had any problem.

But this month I stumbled upon a very strange payment bug and I feel no one is listening. I pay my invoice every month between 1-3, 1st is due date but they give a generous grace period of 3 days. And due to my tight budget I am always able to pay btw 1 to 3, i never defaulted and always paid in time. **This month too i paid on May 3rd but instead of it getting applied to invoice as usual, it got diverted to credits. **I didn't thought much and selcted pay with credits, but out of my $2.80 only $1.80 got paid and I was unable to use the remaining $1 saying its mandatory to have that much and contact support. I never had this issue ever before. I raised a ticket and it automatically got diverted to accounting with 7 days TAT. I was relaxed thinking that it will be automatically applied at end of grace period. But next day I got an email that they suspended by VM due to no payment. I replied to it explaining everything with ticket # i created. It created a new ticket and it sat there for whole day with no response. After 24 hours i created a third ticket for no response on above two and a rep stated that a specialist team rep will contact me for response shortly. After some time my $1 was applied to invoice but my VPS was still suspended. Its been now more than 24 hours and no response on it yet and the other two.

I am afraid that before they would even respond, their automated system would delete my vps and all my data will be gone. I would be grateful if yall could help this to get their attention so it could be resolved asap. I dont have any other problem, they are a great host, its just a bug in their payment system creating this issue.

My ticket #s 24369, 24413 and 24442

Thanks!

• Bero
• Nexo

I like their mid-tier offers. On paper they seem pretty similar. But they could be more explicit.

• Since its omitted, and based on pricing, should I assume those are shared and not dedicated vCPUs?
• If you're a client, what your experience been like? (steal time?, overprovisioning?) I've seen a couple of YABS here and there.
• If you know any other provider with similar/better specs, please share them

I am looking for a low-cost VPS or dedicated server in Europe for a very specific use case:

🎮 Main use case:
Running PCSX2 (PlayStation 2 emulator)
Occasional light retro gaming
Remote access via Moonlight / Parsec / Sunshine
No AI / no rendering / no heavy compute workloads
⚙️ Minimum requirements:
CPU
Strong single-core performance is important
Modern CPU preferred (Intel 10th gen+ / Ryzen 3000+ or newer)
4–8 cores are fine (emulation does not scale well)
GPU (IMPORTANT)

I am NOT looking for high-end GPUs.

I only need:

Entry-level GPU or APU iGPU with:
Vulkan support
OpenGL support
Hardware video encoding (NVENC / AMF / QuickSync)

Examples that would be fine:

GTX 1050 / 1060 / T400 / T600
RTX A2000 (even better)
AMD Vega / RDNA iGPU (6800H / 7840HS class if exposed)
RAM / Storage
16 GB RAM minimum
SSD / NVMe preferred
Location
Europe only (preferably DE / NL / PL)

The cheaper the better.

Some users or programs provide a custom interface that you can connect to via SSH. I've looked into this and found a simple way to set it up like this:

Match User guest
    ForceCommand /home/guest/welcome.sh
    PermitEmptyPasswords yes
    PasswordAuthentication yes
    AllowTcpForwarding no
    X11Forwarding no

But what are the security implications? Could a user potentially escape the script execution and gain shell access to the system?

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I want to share my recent experience with a DediRock VPS and ask whether anyone else has seen similar issues.

I have been using this VPS for about two months. The server is hosted on ColoCrossing infrastructure as far as I know. I have also purchased similar ColoCrossing-based servers directly before, and the same type of configuration usually costs around $10. With DediRock, I saved about $3, so I understood there might be some trade-off.

The VPS had been stable for roughly two months, but today it suddenly became inaccessible.

What I observed:

• SSH on my custom port still accepted TCP connections, but closed before key exchange.
• HTTP/HTTPS and my control panel ports did not respond normally.
• In the DediRock client area, reboot and shutdown actions redirected to a 404 page, so I could not power-cycle the VPS myself.
• My Cloudflare Access page was still reachable, but the origin server could not be confirmed as healthy.

I opened a ticket and described the issue in detail. Support replied fairly quickly, which I appreciate. However, they did not explain what actually went wrong. They only said that reinstalling the operating system was the most effective solution and warned that it would wipe all existing data.

I understand that small providers and startups may have limited support resources, so I agreed to the reinstall in order to restore access as quickly as possible. However, after confirming that they could wipe the data, the handling and follow-up have not been as timely as I hoped. At the moment, I am still waiting for the final result.

My personal feeling is that this does not look like a normal guest OS issue. Since the client area power controls also returned 404, and SSH closed before key exchange, it feels more like something related to the provider side, such as the node, network, public IP mapping, or control panel backend.

I am not posting this to attack anyone. I just want to document the experience and ask:

• Has anyone else had similar recent issues with DediRock?
• Is reinstalling the OS a common first solution from them?
• Would it be more reasonable to ask for migration to another VPS with the same specs if the issue might be node/network related?

I will update this thread once I get the final result.

I went on their chat and they redirected me to their GPU server offering, which doesn't make sense to me as I'm looking at a ks-3 server, definitely not the same price tag!

So what's the concensus here ?

I'm a student looking to expand my TikTok automation project and I’m on a tight budget. I am currently looking for affordable VPS options in the following regions:

USA

Japan (JP)

Netherlands (NL)

My specific requirements:

IP Quality: Must have high-quality IP addresses. Ideally, they should be identified as Residential/ISP or have excellent fraud scores (clean enough to pass TikTok's region detection).

Network: Stable connection for video uploads. 100Mbps port is sufficient.

Budget: Since I am a student managing a small matrix, I am looking for the most cost-effective "direct from provider" deals.

Quantity: I might start with 3-6 instances and scale up if the IP quality is consistent.

If you are a provider or have a recommendation for a source with native/residential IP ranges (not generic data center IPs that are flagged), please drop a comment or PM me.

Thanks in advance for the help!

I’m currently looking into self-hosteed email marketing tools and trying to decide between Sendy, MailWizz, and MailRivo.

I mainly care about automation, unlimited sending/lists, and having a modern UI. I’ll probably use Amazon SES with whichever one I choose.

Sendy and MailWizz seem to be the most established options, but I recently came across MailRivo. It looks more modern and feature-rich than the others, although it’s still pretty new I think.

Did you use any self hosted email makreting tool? If yes, which one and why? How many sending identity can you use?

Would love to hear opinions from people who’ve used any of these platforms.

I recently learned about VPS i have been using linux for a few years now, and i kinda wanna learn about the internet hosting and hosting and stuff like that,

i read online that instead of messing up my base linux install that i use daily i can rent servers (vps) on the internet for cheap so that i can do all the hosting and stuff like that,

i'd like to host:
a simple website maybe,
an IRC server / client ??
some other side projects,
slightly exploring other things (putting out things to download on my website to distribute files,
not high traffic etc)

what kind of things should i be knowing before going headfirst into this journey ? what kind of VPS should i be getting ?

i also want to like maybe hard reset the vps also at times,

nothing too crazy i don't care a lot about the perfomance only the cost (i'm a brokie student) or the ping location i just don't wanna have to choose want i am running, i want to like uk running multiple software so as to get an idea on how to manage them as well,

so my question is:

what kind of VPS should i get ? i want to get it as cheap as possible
can y'all provide some links to providers or offers ? (i did see the 1 dolla offer on the lowendbox if something more cheap is available i'd like that)
how do i go about finding more cheap providers if i need alternatives , (aka where do you find these cheap providers)

thank you in advance for your help.

I’m currently exploring self-hosted email marketing solutions and have narrowed my options down to three popular choices: Sendy, Acelle Mail, and MailWizz. I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences with these platforms to help me make an informed decision.

Here’s what I’m looking for in a solution:

Ease of use: How beginner-friendly is the platform?
Features: Does it support advanced features like automation, segmentation, and analytics?
Performance: How well does it handle large email lists?
Cost-effectiveness: Is it worth the price compared to other options?
Integration: Does it work well with SMTP services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or others?

If you’ve used any of these tools (or even alternatives I might have missed), I’d appreciate it if you could share your experience. Which one do you think offers the best value for a self-hosted setup?

Thanks in advance for your input!

The question is: What is the easiest way to use both servers, and if the main server is down, to automatically show the contents from the secondary server based on your experience?

As a non-profit, we are trying to find an inexpensive way to do this.

Thank you!

As a client myself, I always preferred the truth and transparency of my provider.

What do you personally prefer?

Let's forget money, the initial outlay versus paying monthly as that doesn't matter to me. But time does. If you were in my shoes, what would you do and why? And, any good resources for a non-coder, baseline Linux command line guy, to increase my AI learning? And, anything else I should buy? I have subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude (max), Perplexity, MidJourney, Leonardo and SuperGrok. For middleware, I also have Adspirer too.

Any/all advice/help/counsel gratefully received.

Thanks in advance!

I currently have a dedicated server at Hetzner (AMD Ryzen 5 3600 [6c / 12t] (3.6 GHz) / 64 GB DDR4 RAM / 2x 500 GB NVMe), which costs me about $60 per month.

On it, I run a web server (Nginx) alongside MySQL and FFmpeg. The FFmpeg part is used heavily because it’s needed to encode ~10mb videos every couple of minutes. The videos are short, but CPU performance still plays an important role.

Due to some cost-cutting, I’m looking for suggestions.

Since I like Hetzner, I was thinking about switching to their cloud servers instead, specifically the CCX23 plan for $36.

Has anyone used their cloud servers? Do they use old CPUs?

Or if anyone has better alternatives, feel free to let me know. It must be located in the EU. Thanks

I’m currently developing a free hosting platform designed to let users quickly create and manage their own hosting accounts with minimal friction. The goal is to make something genuinely useful for beginners, developers, and small projects—without the usual barriers.

Before I take this any further, I’d really like to get real feedback from people who understand hosting and real-world usage.

A few things I’d love your input on:

What would make you actually use a platform like this?
What limits would feel fair for a free plan? (storage, bandwidth, etc.)
What features are absolutely essential?
What would immediately turn you away from using it?
Any ideas on how this could evolve into something sustainable long-term?
One important note: this platform will have a strict zero-tolerance policy for abuse (spam, phishing, illegal content, etc.). The goal is to build something clean, stable, and actually usable—not another platform that gets flooded with garbage.

I’m still in the development phase, so your feedback can directly shape how this turns out.

Appreciate any honest thoughts

I’m working on an explanatory video designed to help the general public prepare for potential internet censorship. The goal is to provide a "survival guide" that is accessible to the average person but still technically effective.

I plan to cover VPN usage heavily and am currently leaning toward recommending the Shadowsocks protocol. Do you think this is the right balance of accessibility and security for this audience?
Note that i will absolutely avoid kape technology and other big names as i do not trust them one second against a government level censorship.

I’m looking for your recommendations o what other tools or advice you would prioritize for a "zero-knowledge" user.

Any input on keeping this user-friendly without compromising on utility would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Only 20% will have general traffic remaining are just hobby sites and mostly dead

Kindly recommend what specs should I proceed with, also should I go with vps or dedi

I’m currently experiencing a critical issue with my VPS on HostHatch and would really appreciate any help.

I cannot access the server via SSH or terminal
I attempted to reboot the VPS, but it failed
The console status shows “disconnected”
I submitted a support ticket over 60 minutes ago, but haven’t received any response yet

This VPS is important for my work, so the downtime is quite urgent.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue before?

Could this be a node or network problem on their side?
Is there anything I can try from my end while waiting for support?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 🙏

I’m looking for a VPS provider that can ignore dmca complaints. I will buy for 1 Year at least..

Preferred specs:

• 1-2 vCPU
• 1-2 GB RAM
• 20-40 GB SSD
• 1-2 TB bandwidth minimum
• Ubuntu 22.04/24.04
• Good uptime (i pay extra for zero downtime)
• Allow using the VPS as an Nginx reverse proxy/front server for my other private vps,,
• DMCA Ignored

Location:

• Asia, Europe, or US is okay

Please recommend providers or offers suitable for this setup.

Thanks.

Since dedirock doesn't offer backup options.... I am looking for a free backup solution for the entire VPS, to like a storage box or S3 endpoint or even just ftp.

Also that means I can resolve any domain for you. Love from nameserver.

Thanks.

More to the point, any benchmarks?

I'm considering using one my of my 64GB RAM KS's, for local API access and rewriting primarily, so performance isnt too important as long as it gets the job done.

I'll be picking up an AMD APU with 128GB RAM later in the year, but until then I'm limited to 16GB machines at home, although the memory bandwidth is probably much higher than most KS's.

and when I try to run fsck

e2fsck 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
ext2fs_open2: Superblock checksum does not match superblock
fsck.ext4: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext4: Superblock checksum does not match superblock while trying to open /dev/pve/vm-103-disk-0

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 or
    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

Tried finding backup block and e2fsck but no success.

Is there any chance that I can repair the disk and get the data inside the LXC? Thank you so much

I have a hybrid drive with one unit in a European data center and another in a Canadian data center. I want to replace one of them with a 2x1920 NVMe or a 4x4TB HDD.

This, alongside me having grown more comfortable using Linux to host a game server, means I am now ready to move to a VPS.

I originally tried Hetzner due to it earlier having hosted a sourcemod for me, the CPX21 package to my recollection, but either they block Russia or Russia blocks them. Or both.

Desirable specs otherwise:
2 vCPU or one really fast vCPU
4GB RAM
40-50GB of storage (Enough for TF2 server itself and custom maps)
Enough bandwidth to handle a sprays enabled TF2 server with LateDL for 24 players
A Linux OS that does not fight me installing 32-bit binaries SteamCMD wants

Location: Somewhere in Europe so the otherwise European playerbase can get decent ping. Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Baltics... Somewhere around that belt.

Budget: Somewhere along the lines of 20-25 Euro a month

A managed TF2 host is a no-go for me. My current managed host has really good and quick support, which gave me privilege escalation to install .dll and .so files for the anticheat I put in, which is far from guaranteed elsewhere.
However, since I would be SSH-ing into the new VPS, all I need is decent reliability and maintenance to happen outside of the evening playtime.

I pre-emptively thank you for your time and information, and if there are any specific questions you wish me to answer then you need only to ask.

Yours truly
Konagoat

I want to build a project similar to PikaPods. I'll be hosting apps like 'Uptime Kuma' and 'Ghost Blog' for potential clients, but I'm not sure how to architect the workflow.

I’m thinking of getting a high-resource VDS and deploying the apps via Dokploy or Coolify. Alternatively, I could spin up a separate VDS for each individual user.

Would VDS providers be bothered by high traffic or heavy CPU & RAM usage? Honestly, rather than incurring the heavy overhead of a bare metal server from the start, I think it makes more sense to begin with 64 GB of RAM and upgrade my resources based on the situation.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this approach.
Thanks.

It's been a month since I first withdrew to PayPal, and there's still no progress. Is this normal?

What should I do?
Thanks!

Wonder if anyone know why.

Thanks.

I have an IPv4 /24 and IPv6 /48 from ARIN, along with multiple Hetzner VPS instances in Ashburn VA, Hillsboro OR, Frankfurt and Singapore.

I'm looking to announce my ARIN blocks through a provider and have incoming traffic geo-routed to the nearest VPS — without building my own BGP infrastructure or dealing with colocation.

The provider would handle the announcement and forward traffic to my Hetzner backends, ideally for both IPv4 and IPv6.

I'm aware I could spin up VPS nodes with BGP session support (Vultr, BuyVM, etc.) and DIY it, but I'm specifically looking for a managed solution — think Cloudflare Magic Transit, but not enterprise-priced.

Hetzner unfortunately doesn't offer BGP sessions on their VPS/dedicated products — only on colocation, which isn't an option for me.

Any recommendations?

p.s. production-ready only — not looking for a hobbyist setup or a one-man operation.

I use Gemeni free and ChatGPT(Go) for Idea generation and etc. but I never used them to generate article/blog. What I want is to use simple prompts, give some points and the ai generates good quality content, the I customize them according to my needs also might humanise them using quillbot or any other tools. I don't get enough time after working and studying. That's why I want the ai to do heavy lifting for me.

As I am starting the site, I am not considering buying premium ai tools at the moment. In future I will consider buying premium tools if needed.

So, I am seeking suggestions on generating content, how can I make it seo optimized and any other suggestions to run the website without major issues. I have installed rankmath, connected google search console and bing.

I have done some research before posting here on this topic, the things I found were not very helpful to me. Any suggestions from the user here will be very valuable for me.

English is not my first language, please pardon any mistakes.

Thank you!

We have all the valid documents but we need a valid home/office lease agreement in the US to open it. Can anyone help me?

Already tried

• Updating root Certificates

• Testing the connection to geekbench, looked fine:

  curl -4Iv https://browser.geekbench.com/
  curl -6Iv https://browser.geekbench.com/
  
  openssl s_client -connect browser.geekbench.com:443 -servername browser.geekbench.com </dev/null
  

• Manually pulling and running Geekbench versions 6.7, 6.5, 6.4

The actual benchmarking runs, but uploading the results fails with:

Uploading results to the Geekbench Browser. This could take a minute or two
depending on the speed of your internet connection.

 unknown error (internal code 35)

• I ran YABS/Geekbench on another server from a different host, exact same issue

Anyone has also encountered this issue?

system: Ubuntu 24.04 x86-64

The connection to the central registry is busy. Please try again later

Contacted support, support says it's nothing to do with them and they don't know how I can check status for a registry.

Wondering if someone have the same problem or know how to check.

Thanks. Love from nameserver.

We are long time customer of @vsys_host @vsys almost more than 3 years. Since we are an image host we receive DMCA and CSAM request to our storage provider to remove the content and we keep taking down in less than 5 minutes to be in comply.

But few authorities, send request to the provider where we host our main website and now they did and @vsys_host suspends the server and not even allowing us to take the backup of many thing we have on our server.

They keep saying they have to suspend the server since the received complaint. And we said that is fine, we need backup and so we can move on.

Please let us know your suggestions to get our backup from them.

I have also DMed @vsys_host and no reply to messages even after being active here.

Thanks

On Wednesday, I selected an upgrade option to increase my vCPU from 6 to 8. Shortly after, support reached out saying my VPS needed to be recreated on a new node due to resource limits. I explicitly asked if my existing data could be migrated rather than wiped, and was told they would "coordinate with our team regarding the migration process."

Since then, the server has been completely inaccessible

• The old node has disappeared from my panel and it's offline

• The new node shows up in the panel but can't be connected to. Can't ssh or even ping it.

• The web VNC console opens a login prompt but it does not accept my password.

Support acknowledged that it is a network issue on their end, but the ticket was basically parked over 24 hours ago with a "please give us some time" message and no updates since.

I have been completely locked out for almost two days. Support hasn't fixed the network so I can ssh in and more importantly, nobody has confirmed if my data was actually migrated or if a fresh OS was accidentally installed.

Can an admin please take a look at Ticket #886618, fix the network routing, and confirm the status of the virtual disk?

@servarica_hani

Before yesterday, by setting up cname flattening in Bunny DNS, I can add the domain as a custom hostname, for example test.com, cname flattening to test.origin.com. But I tried to do it today it says:

custom hostname does not CNAME to this zone.

The hostname is using Cloudflare and cannot be activated with an TXT or HTTP validation token. To activate the custom hostname, the DNS target needs to point to the SaaS zone

I've done this a lot of times and nothing was different today. Maybe CloudFlare might have set strict rules on these today, so it is only available on enterprise plan.

I’m looking for a dedicated server with the following specifications. Preferred location: Netherlands.

I was using Calibour but unfortunately they have discontinued all dedicated servers.

I had this config on calibour for 250$ per month

EPYC 7551P (32C/64T)
64GB DDR4 RAM
256 GB NVMe M.2
2x 20 TB HDD
2Gbit/s Unmetered

I have two servers there. Looking for another one for my PostgreSQL DB.

Specs minimum:

2 vCPU AMD EPYC Turin
10 GB+ DDR5 RAM
100 GB+ NVME
5gbps+ port
us/eu

If possible, yearly/quarterly

I’m looking for a VPS or dedicated server with the following minimum specifications:

• CPU: 2 vCores (AMD)
• RAM: 4GB
• Storage: 40GB NVMe
• Network: 1Gbps uplink

Location preference: Netherlands / Europe

Requirements:

• Strong privacy policies
• DMCA-ignored
• High reliability and uptime (downtime is not acceptable)

Infrastructure plan:
I plan to deploy multiple servers (at least 2 or more) behind a load balancer to avoid any single point of failure and ensure service continuity.

Use case:
The server will be used to host and distribute torrent files (primarily anime-related content), similar in nature to public torrent indexing sites.

Please let me know your available options, network quality, and pricing.

The requirements are:

At least 16 CPU cores (high-frequency preferred)
32 GB RAM or more
NVMe storage
1 Gbps port with unmetered bandwidth

Must support very high concurrent TCP connections

mybe 60w tcp connect

I get that you don't offer DDoS protection and I'm not complaining about the null route itself, that's fair. But if you tell a customer 4 hours, it should be 4 hours, or at least send an update when it's going to be longer. Running a business on this server and I've had no communication since the first email.

Anyone else experienced extended null routes here? How long did yours actually take to lift? Trying to figure out if I should just keep waiting or escalate.

Ticket/email was signed by Justin L if any staff here can check on it.
@Terabix

DAVx5 says cannot find CalDAV service, etc.

Anyone got a solution to this, before I just give it up as a bad job?

Would anyone have suggestions for a low-cost Linux VPS from a provider that does not enforce a bandwidth cap? Preferably DMCA resistant as well.

I'm hoping to use it to proxy data from a bucket.

If anyone has suggestions, would love to hear them.

Thanks in advance

I am opening this thread to warn everyone about HostSlick. I have been a victim of their stalling tactics regarding a refund for a TRC20 (USDT) payment. Despite multiple tickets and days of waiting, they have stopped responding and are withholding my funds.

I have attached 6 screenshots below documenting the entire process:

Proof of Payment: Successful TRC20 transaction from my wallet.

Blockchain Confirmation: Tronscan record showing the funds reached their wallet.

Initial Refund Request: My first ticket asking for a refund (Date shown).

Stalling Replies: Their generic responses designed to waste time.

Ignored Tickets: Proof that my recent inquiries have been left unanswered for days.

Final Notice: The last warning I sent before coming here.

Provider: HostSlick (HostSlick Ltd)
Payment Method: Crypto (TRC20)
Issue: Intentional stalling and refusal to refund.

I am also in the process of filing a formal complaint with the German Prosecutor's Office (Staatsanwaltschaft) since they have operations and footprints in the Berngau/Germany region.

BEWARE: Do not send any crypto payments to this provider unless you are willing to lose your money with zero support.

I will update this thread if (and only if) they process my refund.

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Requirements:

RAM: 2-4 GB
Storage: 30-50 GB SSD
Processor: Sufficient for stable operation of a game server with a small online user base
Good uptime and a stable network (important for latency)

Budget:

$5-6 per month

Location: Europe

Goal:
Need a stable and affordable solution for developing and testing a game server

I can find cheap OVH vps or eco series in EU, which would be ideal for EU <-> EU peer to peer video call. But I need US East, preferably Florida for US <-> EU calls.

OVH has some options in Canada but that's not a good option for this purpose. I can't rely on 1TB / X TB VPS - it needs to be unmetered for real, and I have no idea how much BW I might use.

My app will be free, and I'll bear the cost of Infra.

Any advice?

*This article has been translated from Japanese to English using Google Translate.

Update: We are also considering a server in Thailand.

My intent is to offer rented cpanel containers (or other similar panel), so my service is hosted on a personal server on personal network, i have been trying to implement VPN/proxy for the entire containers (so that all server requests users pages makes will not leak my public IP) i have been trying with HestiaCP and OpenPanel but without luck, on openpanel i could get PHP itself to use VPN/proxy network but my problem with this is i would like for the future clients to be able to change server enviroment freely (eg flask, node.js etc).

so my question here is... has anybody worked with something similar, or has the knowledge to maybe point me in the right direction? - if anybody can help me to find a solution i would gladly send some $ your way.

I’m trying to install Windows Server on a dedicated OVH server, and no matter what I do, I just can’t get it to work. In the past, I’ve installed Windows using rescue mode on other OVH servers. I’ve followed at least three guides I found on the forum that seemed promising, but none of them worked.

All my services depend on Windows, and I don’t have the time to start converting everything to a Linux-based system. It’s extremely frustrating because I have another server with Windows installed through OVH’s control panel, and I don’t understand how a more powerful server from the same range doesn’t have access to Windows licenses it’s really exasperating.

Using Proxmox or Unix-based virtualization isn’t an option for me either, since I don’t want to add more layers in between.

I managed to install Windows using QEMU in rescue mode, but when I switch to the HDD, Windows doesn’t boot. At first, I thought it was a network driver issue, but I set up a startup script that writes to a .txt file to check whether Windows was actually booting, and there are no signs of life. So I’m assuming it’s a boot-related issue.

I’ve also been looking into how to use the BYOI feature that OVH provides in its control panel, but the documentation is practically nonexistent. I assume it should be possible to install Windows using that method, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to create my own Windows image in the required format for this type of installation.

I don’t have KVM access, so I can’t properly check what’s going on... I’m basically shooting in the dark here.

The server will be used to host movies and such so strong privacy and DMCA ignore is a must

Would it be a good idea to open a support ticket and ask them first?