On 09-08-2024 23:30, onefang wrote:
> G'day Devuaners.
>
> For those that don't know, I'm the Devuan package mirror herder, and I
> run the sledjhamr.org Devuan ISO and package mirror. Sledjhamr.org needs
> a new home, I can't afford the current home.
>
> Apart from Devuan mirrors I run virtual worlds on it. Or used to, now
> it's down to just one virtual world, coz the others I was running for a
> friend that was helping to pay for that server stopped paying. I suppose
> I could drop the mirror, but that's the least of the things that need
> server resources. OpenSim for virtual worlds is a resource hog.
>
> In this country there's a rental and cost of living crisis. I'm on a
> pension, and those two crisis have hit me hard since the beginning of
> last year. Right now I'm in a race; I'll switch to the age pension when
> I turn 67 in three and a half years (more income); I'll get social
> housing that I'm on the two to ten year wait list for (been approved at
> least, much less rent); or I run out of savings and have to move to a
> tent in a park (could happen later this year at the rate expensive crap
> keeps happening, 'fridge is currently failing). Pissed me off that the
> government kept extending the age pension age, otherwise I'd be on it
> now.
>
> So I'm trying very hard to reduce my costs.
>
> YISP is the server company that I have been with for a long time. They
> have been great. They where recently bought by NovoServe, not so great.
> They have been giving me the run around for fucking months, while I try
> to get my server downgraded to something cheaper. Which just ended up
> costing me more of my rapidly dwindling savings, since I'm still paying
> for the more expensive server.
>
> So right now I'm paying 131 Euros for my server.
>
> I need 32 GB of RAM, 700 GB to 1 TB of storage. Can't afford RAID.
> Currently it's an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6 @ 3.50GHz, something
> similar but preferably AMD I'd like to switch to, could work with
> something less, but not much less. Currently with 3 IPv4s and a IPv6/??.
> Bandwidth is nice and large, with great connectivity in central Europe.
>
> I gave NovoServe an ultimatum, if they don't get their shit together and
> actually answer the question I keep asking them by early next week, then
> I'm finding another company. Anyone know of a great cheap one?
>
> With my cost of living and rental crisis I have a very low tolerance for
> corporate bullshit. The local electricity company keeps guessing which
> of the metres is actually the one for my home, so far they are up to me
> paying for three of them, one of which they acknowledge is actually a
> community one the house owner should be paying for, which is not me. I
> keep telling them to stop guessing and send someone out to actually
> check. They got an ultimatum to.
>
> Which brings me to my email signature, which refers to the fact that this
> very talented computer programmer always had trouble finding work, coz
> apparently coders need to wear uncomfortable clothes and cut bits off
> themselves to be "professional". NO! Being professional is doing a good
> job, which means programming well, not looking good. Wearing
> uncomfortable clothes means you work LESS well. So with not that much
> work during my career, not much savings. Even worse, can't get work now
> coz of agism, haven't been able to since my late forties. Many decades
> of experience doesn't count, as apparently I'm too old to know how to
> work a computer. Pfffft
>
You could try Hetzner DE with their server auctions like their current
i7-6700 servers  for around € 40 incl 19% VAT per month. Another
interesting one is OVHcloud especially their Kimsufi range
https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/?display=list&range=kimsufi (ex VAT prices I
think and network speed limited to 100 Mbps but cheap)

Grtz.

Nick