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      bnrstnr @wrx7m
      last edited by

      @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

      I got one a few months ago after checking several times a day, for months.

      This is how I got mine too, although it only took me like a week. I signed up for the notifications multiple times and never once got an email from them.

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      • wrx7mW
        wrx7m @scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

        @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

        Pi-Hole

        How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

        Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

        The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

        0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

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          bnrstnr
          last edited by

          PiHole really is great, definitely worth the $2.50/$5 a month.

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          • coliverC
            coliver @thwr
            last edited by

            @thwr said in Uses for VPS:

            Gaming community (everything but gameservers: Auth, Profile, Game content (mods), Mod management (auto update/patch database), gameserver management, ...)

            Was going to look at doing something like this when we were doing Arma3.

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            • wrx7mW
              wrx7m @scottalanmiller
              last edited by wrx7m

              @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

              @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

              @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

              Pi-Hole

              How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

              Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

              In the case where you are using Windows AD, would you just put your DNS servers' forwarders as the Pi-hole server?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @wrx7m
                last edited by

                @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                Pi-Hole

                How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @wrx7m
                  last edited by

                  @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                  @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                  Pi-Hole

                  How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                  Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                  In the case where you are using Windows AD, would you just put your DNS servers' forwarders as the Pi-hole server?

                  yep.

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                  • wrx7mW
                    wrx7m @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                    @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                    @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                    Pi-Hole

                    How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                    Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                    The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                    0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                    Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                    It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

                    That's really weird. I am surprised that it is not repairable.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @wrx7m
                      last edited by

                      @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                      @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                      @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                      Pi-Hole

                      How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                      Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                      The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                      0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                      Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                      It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

                      That's really weird. I am surprised that it is not repairable.

                      Probably is, only put so much time into it. But the forums had lots of people with the issue and no clear fixes.

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                      • wrx7mW
                        wrx7m @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                        @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                        @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                        @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                        Pi-Hole

                        How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                        Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                        The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                        0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                        Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                        It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

                        That's really weird. I am surprised that it is not repairable.

                        Probably is, only put so much time into it. But the forums had lots of people with the issue and no clear fixes.

                        Yeah, I guess I meant as a bug fix.

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                        • black3dynamiteB
                          black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                          @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                          @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                          @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                          Pi-Hole

                          How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                          Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                          The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                          0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                          Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                          It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

                          That's really weird. I am surprised that it is not repairable.

                          Probably is, only put so much time into it. But the forums had lots of people with the issue and no clear fixes.

                          Many of them using Fedora with SELinux enforced?

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
                            last edited by

                            @black3dynamite said in Uses for VPS:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                            @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                            @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                            @wrx7m said in Uses for VPS:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                            Pi-Hole

                            How is pi-hole working out for you? Seems interesting.

                            Love it, works GREAT. So easy to maintain.

                            The UI looks very similar to Snipe-IT

                            0_1516124492574_8957ab93-6dbc-457b-8822-ad63bc7243f4-image.png

                            Sadly for a lot of people, no web interface.

                            It broke and nothing seems to brnig it back. Works fine, just no interface.

                            That's really weird. I am surprised that it is not repairable.

                            Probably is, only put so much time into it. But the forums had lots of people with the issue and no clear fixes.

                            Many of them using Fedora with SELinux enforced?

                            Not sure, this is my ONE workload on Ubuntu.

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                            • PenguinWranglerP
                              PenguinWrangler @wrx7m
                              last edited by PenguinWrangler

                              @wrx7m My friend runs two piholes in his school district. Cuts down on so much crap for him.

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                              • bbigfordB
                                bbigford
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                                @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                                @bbigford They have a "Storage Instance" tab that is always sold out, I was lucky enough to grab one like 6 months ago. They've been sold out every time I've logged in since then.

                                They are SO popular.

                                I've been searching for their storage instance alert. Where did you even find that on their site?

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                                • brandon220B
                                  brandon220
                                  last edited by

                                  I love PiHole. I run it as a vm locally at home. It amazes me how much it blocks.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @bbigford
                                    last edited by

                                    @bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Uses for VPS:

                                    @bnrstnr said in Uses for VPS:

                                    @bbigford They have a "Storage Instance" tab that is always sold out, I was lucky enough to grab one like 6 months ago. They've been sold out every time I've logged in since then.

                                    They are SO popular.

                                    I've been searching for their storage instance alert. Where did you even find that on their site?

                                    You have to log in first. Most of the Vultr options are only visible to authenticated users. Once you are logged in, all your choices appear when you go to deploy something. You select a normal VM or a storage VM.

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                                      flaxking
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                                      I was really excited when I looked up Vultr after looking at this thread, because they have $2.50 instances and that is the price point I was looking for. The load I need a VPS for is very small (just checks some websites then it posts on facebook). I was event semi-effectively using CloudAtCost for it, but every 4 months or so my server would become unresponsive and would require to be rebuilt.

                                      However, now that I have signed up for Vultr, (and foolishly even added credit to my account) I see they don't actually have any $2.50 instances available. Does anyone know how frequently they come back up for sale?

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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1 @flaxking
                                        last edited by

                                        @flaxking said in Uses for VPS:

                                        I was really excited when I looked up Vultr after looking at this thread, because they have $2.50 instances and that is the price point I was looking for. The load I need a VPS for is very small (just checks some websites then it posts on facebook). I was event semi-effectively using CloudAtCost for it, but every 4 months or so my server would become unresponsive and would require to be rebuilt.

                                        However, now that I have signed up for Vultr, (and foolishly even added credit to my account) I see they don't actually have any $2.50 instances available. Does anyone know how frequently they come back up for sale?

                                        Get yourself on their email notification list. They do make more available at a good clip, but that instance is so popular they just can't rack equipment fast enough. If you catch the notification, you can normally grab one before they run out.

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                                        • dbeatoD
                                          dbeato @flaxking
                                          last edited by

                                          @flaxking said in Uses for VPS:

                                          I was really excited when I looked up Vultr after looking at this thread, because they have $2.50 instances and that is the price point I was looking for. The load I need a VPS for is very small (just checks some websites then it posts on facebook). I was event semi-effectively using CloudAtCost for it, but every 4 months or so my server would become unresponsive and would require to be rebuilt.

                                          However, now that I have signed up for Vultr, (and foolishly even added credit to my account) I see they don't actually have any $2.50 instances available. Does anyone know how frequently they come back up for sale?

                                          NJ Datacenter has them:
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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @flaxking
                                            last edited by

                                            @flaxking said in Uses for VPS:

                                            However, now that I have signed up for Vultr, (and foolishly even added credit to my account) I see they don't actually have any $2.50 instances available. Does anyone know how frequently they come back up for sale?

                                            They had them just a few days ago.

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