Find housing for humanity based organizations, they might be able to assist getting you housed. If you don’t understand of any, try asking around to understanding HOW to get such assistance in your area.

Please don’t squat, you might “win” in the short run but you will get charges sooner or later.

Instead seek local organizations and churches who might be able to point you in the right directions and/or provide you assistance.

And in place of panhandling for cash (if it allowed), you might get better luck if you simply ask for donation(s) for what you are needing (i.e. food instead of money to get said food). To me it’s more understanding if a person on the streets ask for some bread than if they looking for $3 to get a loaf.

Awww you are very welcome! Thanks for your appreciation in me as well. :)

LunaNode might be cheap to run them. I am not sure on their demands but they have general and memory intensive instances.

It’s honestly USUALLY not that difficult to dedicate sufficient time to prune a community here as needed within reasons. Beside a well moderated community is less likely to be spammed in the long run considering it will be less efforts than it’s worth.

Problems USUALLY arises because there’s a lack of moderation, not because new users should be pulled back or from being signed up. This is more evident in game servers and believe me I can tell them apart what’s a well oiled game server from one that isn’t. Same goes for online communities.

I disagrees with that, “throttling” postings is dumb. Just moderate your communities more closely if you don’t likes’ the contents.

That’s understandable to me now, thank you very much for explaining all of this to me so I am able to becomes aware and able to understand everything now. :)

Your really funny LOL! :)

I am sorry but I am lost on what you means. I gotten a $30 5.25" Dual Hot Swappable 2.5" bays which each of the drives connected through the SATA interface (you plug the respected SATA cables in each bays’ end and the drives connections are literally “clicks into place”).

So I thought if the drives are on standby “hence I assume are therefore not spinning up/down” then I thought it safe to pulls them out. Since I thought they would not be doing anything if they are simply on standby.

Interesting so that could be ran after the failing device been removed? Additionally interesting cause I always yanked the drives out when Linux Mint says they are put on standby (sleeping). Or I do that manually then I would pull them out.

I can’t find anything that says LVM Mirroring (RAID1) will do this as automatically or whatever.

Logically I would take out the drive on the way out, redo the LVM on the new disk and then add it to the VG. BUT I am not quite sure if I am missing some steps to avoid “a bricked array”.

But that is WHY they are filtering VPNs to be honest. Because as I been saying it just not worth it to keep VPN users online when the BULK of the spammers are using the same.

Even when you go out and buy something you probably gonna be asked to turn off your VPN or your order won’t be processed/requires additional steps. I know majority of hosting providers do at least.

Precisely I don’t think (as of now anyways) there a mean to “filters” VPN users effectively or otherwise general spam and such than to “cut the entire line off”.

Take the Wasp and Hornet spray that we had to apply on our porch. It is depressing that a bee had to die? Absolutely but we had to spray or else we would be “spammed” by wasps and hornets that could damage our rental.

Sometimes you have to take the “nuclear option” until more targeted solutions can be developed.

You still need to considers the costs of accepting said users though, even if you don’t likes it being done in such manners.

Just think of anti-fraud measures which denying VPNs are apart of. If you are a small firm and you need to protect your business aren’t you inclined to do the same exact measures and tell your FraudLabsPro to ignore/caution against VPN orders?

Whens it comes to VPNs, there is just TOO MUCH risks involved with VPN users to allow openly for larger applications and businesses. Compared to “ordinary users” due to the privacy nature of VPNs.

As I said before, if it would take 10x the amount of resources to let a legitimate user “in” compared to a “normal” user then why shall a business expel 10x the resources to let that happen for the FEW legitimate VPN users in comparison?

This isn’t news, any major platforms and even commercialized businesses will block/limits VPNs. They just not worth the risks associated with them. And as businesses there are not worth the “risks” to “capture leads from” which I agrees in a business sense.

After all if you gotta deal with say 1,000 spammers why let that 1 “legit guy” be allowed? If the usual loads is non VPNed spammers 100 per legit non VPN user 1 for instance?

Thanks you for the confirmation on that, well as soon as PCLiqulidations hopefully get back to me to the inquiry I sent. I might be able to get one of their refurbs. Hopefully before it actually does dies. But I sent them the email so I can confirm they can indeed do somethign for me and what they charge for shipping.

ServerMonkey for example was out of their minds for charging $14.95 shipping on a $20 2.5" disk. Since they charge shipping by the flipping LB, not by the actual item’s weight.

I am very glad to see and no worries, thanks for bringing this to my attention so I was able to provide this additional information in case somebody can more possibly inform me if this something to continue worrying about or not.

As for data backup, this array is to holds them from my cloud Backup VM and anything else that is too large for me keep on my 60GB SSD for proper backing up to my external USB HDD for my personal data. So the “bulky” data are backed up at least twice (Backup VM and the HDD array) WHILE the REALLY important stuffs (like updateish password manager data and such) are backed up to the external in addition to the HDD array (personal data doesn’t goes to the Cloud Backup VM).

Thank you very much, I ran the tool and it gave me Pass completed, 9 bad blocks found. (9/0/0 errors) It’s updated SMART now says OK, 16 Bad Sectors and it’s detailed output is as follows…

I wouldn’t even let me run the long test so I am scrambling for options ideally before the LVM array degrades and if nothing else before the array dies completely. But I am not sure who to buy refubs from if PCLiquations doesn’t get back to me on them and ships them at a reasonable shipping fee for ~$20 devices.

Microcenter doesn’t even have any 7200RPM refub drives in stock even…

I didn’t even let me check even running the long test twice so yea I am considering where I can get a refurb unit for around 20 bucks or less (around 25 bucks total I am hoping to reach after shipping fees).

Microcenter doesn’t carries any (only 5700RPM units which I don’t trust the 5kRPM devices), flipping ServerMonkey charges shipping by the absolute LBs so it’s $14.95 or what not even to get a 20 dollars drive…

I am trying to see if PCLiquidations can help me and if that doesn’t goes far I might need to look on E-Bay.

Panda products are also worth a look. Be sure you watch prices though, some of their models are EXCESSIVELY overpriced. I had to return one of these “higher end” products as their lower end model gave me better experiences.

I sure had! I was attempting to “pulling some wires” on the “less than ideal” Original Minetest Pterodactyl Egg and came up with… https://github.com/parkervcp/eggs/pull/1248

To this day I am still using it in it’s PR’ed form that I PR’ed to them. :)

I know this is for domains and not their hosting services but man they got work to do if they wanna be “truly” green. The fundamentals principles of ANY green endeavors is to reduce waste as much as possible, forcing you to buy more RAM for more CPU vCores and being capped at 200GB of disk space isn’t the way to go green.

I rather still use LunaNode and make my impacts there as they actually focus on reducing wastes and your bill in the process. Don’t need a VM but wanna save the IP and contents? Shelve it. Don’t need it anymore? Delete it. Need some CPU here and there or even on a regular basis? You can use your “CPU Points” and even buy yourself out of any throttling if you like.

Thus I feels like LunaNode is the way to go IF you know how to take full advantage of their systems through their panel and/or API. Than just calling VMs green because they are ran off of turbines.

Beside If you book it through Toronto, you can be reasonably assured a good hunk of power will be green to boot. :)

Indeed any backdoors is literally a sign that says “come hack me!” and having a target on your back while your at it. XD

This isn’t news, NaH (Molten Salts) reactors are a thing too. Requiring no water either to keep things cooled (however they can be combined in order to turn traditional steam turbines making it a more “drop in” replacement for coal powered plants).

And there’s absolutely NOTHING for “drop and run” single node management. Both Portainer and Rancher are ocherators. Not “hey I need something to manage containers from from this VPS I have”.

Google is hot garbage for small businesses anyways. It’s overheads for SEO, GoogleAds, etc are way saturated that it just not worth it apart from medium/large businesses just for the marketing.

Maybe it’s worth checking the DATA CABLE before I tried removing the array. XD Well it was just used for backups that were driven irrelevant anyways. Now to make a new RAID1 array to take its place.

Good luck getting an ISP to let you push your pipe though. We have 200Mbps on Spectrum but man even downloading 1.2xGB backups to my PC is a pain in the rear.

No home user ever needs this much. UNLESS we are talking about the ocessional requirements of backing/restoring things.

Even DUAL PROCs dedicated unit rentals are rarely defaulting to 10Gbps options.

Interesting I thank you for looking into all of that of me so yea I don’t think Portainer is gonna work then. As I assumed it was similar to Pterodactyl but for general containers. Like file manager, editor, etc.

As for minetesthosting.com I tried contacting them a year ago but haven’t seen anything from them. Though I suppose it may be worth reaching out to them once more now it been awhile? If so I gonna see what another guy is willing to do as they wanted me to file a ticket as they reached me on the forums. I wonder if they “fix me up” instead.

Still thanks for doing everything in regards to Portainer even though it wasn’t as “point and click” as I thought it would be.

Awesome seems good, thanks for the additional feedbacks so I am able to be made aware. :)

That is also interesting but I am still confused on how would either Let’s Encrypt/this would be used so that Portainer can use these. Since it gotta be in a certain place right?

Indeed now of days I don’t think certbot is that hard to run as you can tell it to do it as a temporary web server. So you can skip some steps. However I don’t know what to do with the cert once it been provisioned by Let’s Encrypt so that Portainer “can use it”.

Indeed, still when I need to edit that one mod or whatever it can be complicated as is already to set this up. Thanks for sharing this interesting approach though.

Indeed, it does seems complicated to get a SSL going. As it doesn’t even seems like it will do a self sign by default?

Interesting, the docs are confusing though even in https://documentation.portainer.io/v2.0/deploy/ceinstalldocker/ it doesn’t seems to explains standalones clearly. I am confused if I would need both a “standalone” host or if I would need to also install the agent? If I do does the agent needs to installed on yet another VPS?

I am just looking for GUI based so I can be considerably more productive than Tmux, nano and all of that jazz. It’s considerably easier for me to open a web page and see the console, power controls, file manager, edit on the fly, etc.

For instance i find it a bit frustrating that I gotta…

1. Login the VPS
2. Change to user
3. run systemctl

Just to cut the power or to start it back up…

Editing a file?

1. Log into VPS
2. change to user
3. cd your way to file
4. nano into file
5. enter into desired line
6. keep on pushing backspace until what’s there is gone
7. Finally be able to input your changes

On a GUI I can do the above with a number of reduced steps.

And it does matter since I am usually making changes to the game server often (once or twice daily usually). I can also switch to console, game’s server resources, etc in a few mouse clicks. Instead of figuring out what’s linux commands I gotta do to get there, what’s packages I need, etc etc etc.

Awww thanks you very much and you are most certainly welcome. Indeed it seems like generally people cares “more” than say Reddit or other forums/platforms. Also if it helps, my isn’t either. I am natively American SIgn Language (ASL).