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What do you use your lowend box for?

bcrlsnbcrlsn Member
edited May 2013 in General

What kind of servers or roles do you use your lowend box for?

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  • I use all mine for streaming video/streaming media.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran
    edited May 2013

    VPN, ownCloud, private wiki, Usenet indexer, backups of my music and comic collections, remote desktop access, and monitoring of all of the above.

  • fislefisle Member

    Squid proxy, web server, mumble server, uptime monitoring, email server.

    The most important for me is squid proxy which I've set foxyproxy to automatically use for youtube.com, my local ISP have had problems with YouTube for I think over a year now. Can't even watch 480p sometimes without buffering. Redirect YT to squid -> 720p works without any delay. Damn TeliaSonera.

  • ahmiqahmiq Member

    Webs , Mail server , Shoutcast , Irc clients , vpn , dns. i am on a 1gb plan

  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    mostly java stuff

  • Watching how low my load average is as I have nothing running on them, only exception is my UK VPN VPS.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    @fisle said: The most important for me is squid proxy which I've set foxyproxy to automatically use for youtube.com, my local ISP have had problems with YouTube for I think over a year now. Can't even watch 480p sometimes without buffering. Redirect YT to squid -> 720p works without any delay. Damn TeliaSonera.

    Absolutely the same here :D
    Not the most important use of a VPS for me, but indeed, YouTube loads much faster (even in 1080p) via proxy on a VPS, than directly.

  • Hide porn from my parents.

  • upfreakupfreak Member

    @herbyscrub Downloaded or?

  • mostly vpn, websites and dns

  • MycroftMycroft Member

    SSH tunnel., backups

  • @herbyscrub said: Hide porn from my parents.

    +1

    i have to use the VPS for something.

  • proxy

  • kbeeziekbeezie Member

    @herbyscrub said: Hide porn from my parents.

    +1
    Best usage I've seen yet...

    Thanked by 1Dormeo
  • RobertClarkeRobertClarke Member, Host Rep

    VPN, websites, private websites, owncloud, backups, monitoring, game servers, dns

  • Hosting development tools, wiki, website, vpn, backups, etc.

  • Development box, encoding , streaming storage , seed boxing :)

  • Minecraft server, BTSync, will be hosting websites soon, probably email at some point.

  • ShamliShamli Member

    squid proxy,dns,forward proxy(nginx)...

  • IRC BNC, VPN, backup,web server, SSH tunnel

  • irc/services, web server, ssh tunnel :>

  • dns, vpn, web server, development, and like 4 idle vpses.

  • vpn, mysql slaves and websites. My business stuff is still on a non-LEB box.

  • @rm_ said:

    @fisle said: The most important for me is squid proxy which I've set foxyproxy to automatically use for youtube.com, my local ISP have had problems with YouTube for I think over a year now. Can't even watch 480p sometimes without buffering. Redirect YT to squid -> 720p works without any delay. Damn TeliaSonera.

    Absolutely the same here :D
    Not the most important use of a VPS for me, but indeed, YouTube loads much faster (even in 1080p) via proxy on a VPS, than directly.

    How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

  • @cheapwebdev said:
    How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

    How does necroposting a thread from three years ago accomplish anything?

  • development machines and web apps that are used internally at work.

  • I use my vps to comment on old threads

    Thanked by 2zaecwxlp Pwner
  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited November 2016

    cheapwebdev said: How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

    Cuz your own ISP may have a screwed up Google Cache setup, or you could get directed to a wrong cache instance (e.g. to which the peering connections are overloaded). If at the same time you have no issues with download speeds from your VPS, you can benefit from a fast and robust Google Cache instance running in a proper DC with multi-100Gbit peerings somewhere in Europe (as in my case), instead of some small one operated as a side job by local village ISP near you.

    Pwner said: How does necroposting a thread from three years ago accomplish anything?

    By doing that and then simply getting the answer to your question, like he just did?

    Thanked by 1vimalware
  • cheapwebdev said: How does using a VPS enable YouTube to load faster?

    You get to see them 3 years earlier.

    Thanked by 1vimalware
  • I hate these threads.

    Stop reminding me I have a problem. :p

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