i just got the oddest, spam email ever dont normally boter with them, but it had a .zip inside the zip is an sqlite flat, with a HUGE list of user/pass and IP addresses most of the IPs look like VPS/Dedi space on Amazon/OVH/Demonware etc and alas, the senders email isn't valid meh, it's only the FBI. It's not like the NSA is watching. haha my bot is called FBI too :o tbh though, anyone who has downloaded tor is already on the NSA watchlist aight, emailed some of these hosting companies about this email i got and one has already got back to me sounding VERY worried The channel bot at work is "NSA_Monitoring_Station" :D (It replaced "FBI_Surveillance_Van") heh, NSA Monitoring Station used to be the SSID on my open guest AP Hey everyone, I was thinking of getting 2 VPS's from arpnetworks and was curious if bandwidth is counted when they talk to each other since they are on the same network? gooddesignusa: Nope that would not count against bandwidth. Bandwidth is measured at the upstream router, so only traffic to/from the Internet would count. great, thanks for the quick response I was thinking of settig up a VPS to run pfsense grody: i tihnk everyone is on the NSA watchlist they watch everyone :) Only people within four hops of a suspected terrorist, as I understand it. ping/traceroute hops? Because that would be a pretty wide net ;p rather NSA watching everyone even if you want to or not. :) are there any internal networking issues that you all know of? I seem to be getting lots of failures between 2 servers (comm failures) between nginx (proxy) and uwsgi (app server) and I've never really had this happen in the past comms failures? Sorry, like dropped connections It could be app issues but it's across many apps so it's odd you could put a ticket in but not aware of anything breaking connections or such how do folks deal with rotating backups? For instance, I hav a cronjob that backs up all databases off to a remote server. It does this every week. I usually dont care to keep backups older than 15 weeks if I have not needed them for so long - chances are I am never going to need them. At this point I find myself deleting old backups manually every couple of months. mnathani_, I use this https://bitbucket.org/petersanchez/webutils/src/22c1314f5206cc309e191007d84f86199bf9f278/webutils/cleanup/?at=default basically I create db backups every 4 hours (usually), store them on local disk and on S3.. I run that cronjob nightly to remove backups (locally and in S3) older than 7 days.. it's not a gorgeous piece of code but I wrote it years ago and it still works just fine so... *shrugs* and I use tarsnap for system backups.. that manages everything for me thanks pjs, had heard about tarsnap before but looking into it now again. The deduplication feature sounds really handy what benefit would someone get by running pfsense in a VPS? I thought it was primarily a firewall when you tarsnap say a directory with a bunch of files in it, can you retrieve say a single file or a bunch of files, or do you have to retreive the entire tarball ?