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au: hello! are there any vps slots available?
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: yes
<br> but i have pre-orders to do
<br> new server is almost ready
<br> the pre-orders go first
au: ah, a friend of mine is after vps for an ssh tunnel for wow (less latency) which requires a vps in la. just checking if you had any slots at the moment
<br> thanks for letting me know :)
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: yeah shouldn't be a problem
<br> <u>au</u>: how does the ssh tunnel reduce latency though? i mean he's still playing from his localhost...
au: ah we're located in Australia and the server is in la, it's much less latency from home -> arp -> wow. in tracert, there's much more hops+latency
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: ah OK
au: would you be able to do a tracert for me and pastebin it?
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: sure
<br> <u>au</u>: i also want to see your traceroute to me :)
au: okay, one moment
up_the_irons: i'm envisioning a whole new market... "Reduce WoW latency, get a VPS!" ;)
au: 12.129.225.103 is the wow server ip
<br> uh sec my wireless modem has tracert blocked
<br> have to hop onto main network, brb
up_the_irons: ok
au: http://pastebin.com/jb3cYbZV
up_the_irons: telstra and reach, interesting
<br> <u>au</u>: you want me to traceroute back to you?
au: for wow server and back, please :)
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: http://pastebin.com/dU18CR6s
au: can you please ping mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net a few times for me?
<br> sorry for this heh
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: no problem -- http://pastebin.com/081a82ac
au: very good!
<br> thanks very much :)
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: np!
<br> i'm rockin' the < 3ms pings
au: when could I expect for a vps to be provisioned?
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: within 24 hours
au: okay great, I will order after dinner
up_the_irons: <u>au</u>: great!
au: done
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woremacx: hih
<br> hi
<br> is it possible to change hostname? such as foo-bar.cust.arpnetworks.com.
au: you'd have to ask up_the_irons
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woremacx: ah, thanks
<br> <u>up_the_irons</u>: hi
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aem: hello
<br> are vps available or is their a waiting queue at the moment?
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amdprophet: <u>aem</u>: i think there's a bit of a waiting queue but i don't think it's that long
<br> tyour best bet is to ask up_the_irons
<br> your *
aem: thanks
amdprophet: np
<br> <u>aem</u>: if there is a wait, it's worth it
bob^^: yeah, definitely worth the wait :)
amdprophet: my company is renting two right now and they're both great, we came from vpslink which was a pretty bad experience from the start
<br> faster servers, better pricing, better support, more customization
<br> much more redundant too, we had so many outages with vpslink because their network would go down or power would go out
-: fink loves his zfs freebsd vps
bob^^: oooh, zfs on vps is a good idea
<br> whenever i've played with zfs on freebsd i've ended up killing hardware ;/
amdprophet: i'm using zfs on one of our freebsd vps too
<br> bob^^: weird, although the psu did go in my freebsd zfs fileserver... but that was due to the moisture in the air
bob^^: i'm sure it was just co-incidence :)
amdprophet: yea
bob^^: first time i applied it on top of a hardware raid card (raidz) and i lost/killed two disks
<br> the controller wouldn't talk to them anymore
fink: bob^^: cosmic rays??
bob^^: hah :D
<br> you never know :)
amdprophet: wait, you can do hardware raid z?
bob^^: no - was using a dell 2850 with perc controller
<br> had to set it up with each disk as it's own 'array'
<br> and then applied raidz over the top of that
<br> pull out a disk, push it back in, disk gets rejected forevermore :)
amdprophet: ouch
bob^^: tbh i think it's more to do with the perc controller
<br> they can be, um, 'sensitive' :)
<br> shame they can't export each drive natively to the OS :(
amdprophet: :(
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mike-burns: <u>ARPNetworks</u>: more reliable than Freenode.
epid_: heh
bob^^: hah :D
<br> my vps has been great btw, had it two months now, no issues at all :D
RandalSchwartz: ditto
<br> 4 months for me
<br> 2 months for insightcruises
fink: i've sent out over 2billion spam emails in the past 2 weeks, with no slowdown
<br> arpnetworks rocks!
mike-burns: Ha.
bob^^: :D
coil_: no issues in 9 months here
RandalSchwartz: don't be tainting my address spaces!
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up_the_irons: <u>woremacx</u>: your hostname is a setting within your VPS. change it as you please.
<br> <u>aem</u>: if there is no big yellow "NOTICE" box on the order page, then there is no waiting queue besides the normal 24 hours
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