Time  Nick          Message
16:05 TommyTreasure any recommendations for a VPS provider? perferrably in the USA. my current provider is ceasing their VPS operations at the end of july
16:10 TommyTreasure horror stories welcomed too. nothing worse than choosing a vps with problems.
16:11 VanessaE      well you sure as hell don't wanna go with whoever it is that's hosting the forums :P
16:11 TommyTreasure i totally agree on that one!
16:12 rubenwardy    liteservers hosts the forums
16:12 rubenwardy    too lite
16:12 TommyTreasure 150G storage suits my current needs
16:12 VanessaE      also, unless they've improved their DDOS handing, avoid Linode.
16:13 TommyTreasure current service was very affordable, and had almost flawless service for 2 years
16:14 VanessaE      you might consider a Kimsufi or SoYouStart dedicated server.  the former is a little slow but cheap af, while the the latter costs a bit more (but is still inexpensive) and is quite fast
16:14 VanessaE      and they're OVH subsidiaries, so good DDoS protection
16:14 TommyTreasure i'm paying 20/mo for the 150G storage, and can't remember the rest of the specs
16:15 TommyTreasure at least the current one gave a 4 month heads up
16:15 VanessaE      kimsufi's cheapest in-stock server is about $18/mo:  KS-7	Intel  i3-2130	2c/4t	3.4GHz	8GB DDR3 1333 MHz	  2TB 	100 Mbps	/128	$17.99
16:15 VanessaE      https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml
16:17 TommyTreasure 2TB? wow!
16:17 VanessaE      their disk speeds leaves a little bit to be desired, but for low-end uses, you can solve that with some aggressive cacheing.
16:18 VanessaE      I use a SoYouStart server to run my stuff on, so maybe I'm slightly biased ;)
16:18 TommyTreasure that could be an issue. 2 maps, and a small, low volume web server
16:18 VanessaE      nah, it isn't THAT slow
16:19 VanessaE      I just meant in my use-case (my servers really need the speed the SSDs in their current box provide)
16:19 TommyTreasure 'tis when you're near the limit for registered nodes  :)
16:19 VanessaE      heh
16:19 TommyTreasure neither one of my games are high volume
16:19 VanessaE      give Kimsufi a try then :)
16:20 VanessaE      it's paid monthly if you want, so you can quickly go elsewhere if it doesn't work out
16:20 TommyTreasure i usually do auto pay
16:20 VanessaE      (can you tell I'm biased against VPSs? :P )
16:21 TommyTreasure what's the diff with SoYouStart?
16:21 VanessaE      as I understand, SYS gets their servers from OVH when they're retired/decommissioned, then Kimsufi gets theirs from SYS under the same conditions.
16:22 VanessaE      so it's basically as you go from one to the next, the servers get faster and more expensive.
16:23 VanessaE      you know, different market segments.
16:23 TommyTreasure 42/month is out of my budget though.. :(
16:24 VanessaE      so go to the $18/mo one. :)
16:25 VanessaE      (no I don't get some kind of commission, I'm just a satisfied customer :) )
16:26 TommyTreasure the reason my current one gave was that their "OpenVZ 6" was at end of life, and they wouldn't be renewing
16:29 sfan5         OpenVZ 7 exists though, so sounds like unwillingness to continue
16:29 TommyTreasure i guess they make much more profit in their web hosting part of the business, than on their vps part
16:32 rubenwardy    I use the $18 kimsufi  it performs worse than a VPS
16:32 rubenwardy    Because it's a HDD
16:33 TommyTreasure i've had zero issues with ipxcore, exept for one of my own mistake
16:34 TommyTreasure in fact, i have 2 accounts with them
16:36 VanessaE      rubenwardy: spoiled by SSDs too, eh? ;)
16:40 TommyTreasure hmmm, seems my provider also offeres kvm services too.  now i'm totally confused on their notice to me
16:40 TommyTreasure so confused, i can't spell either except nor offers  :)
16:41 sfan5         sounds like they are only removing part of their vps offerings
16:41 sfan5         since KVM is an alternative technology to OpenVZ
16:41 TommyTreasure time to open a ticket with them and find out.  thanks for the input and info though
16:43 TommyTreasure maybe not so affordable though, i'd have to add additional disk space. would probably double my cost
17:33 rubenwardy    tags on CDB are now searchable -  https://content.minetest.net/packages/?tag=environment
17:36 Krock         Celebration!
17:49 rubenwardy    Minetest is currently featured on the snap store: https://snapcraft.io/store
17:51 Krock         cool
18:27 sfan5         it even has 5.2.0, how nice
18:28 Krock         faster than AUR
23:23 * Sokomine    expresses her dislike for aliases
23:30 rubenwardy    :'(
23:34 Sokomine      make that a severe dislike
23:35 Sokomine      i do like realtest, and i want to support wuzzys new version of it. but..somehow..the alias problem got more severe there for my mods
23:35 Sokomine      handle_schematics often works on content_ids...which is very bad if the node as such does not exist
23:38 Sokomine      well...at least there's some slow progress now....
23:44 rubenwardy    get_content_ids should work on aliases
23:48 Sokomine      doesn't seem to do it. had several crashes with that