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ivansalloum

gmakhs Hetzner and no DDoS protection? 👀

tecreasey

I'm UK based and I tend to use Katapult (Krystal) although I believe they only have data centres in UK and USA at the moment. They are a little more pricey than some providers but I align with their ethos as a company so I do use them a lot.

enhost

tecreasey I like Krystal, I just wish their dedicated offering was a little more competitive

JohnB

twest When you have 3 servers completely die in a single year because "they needed more thermal paste" it gets old.

Wtf. Do they think thermal paste is like oil in an old oil burning car? Or do they just use such garbage thermal paste that it dries up quickly.

Or maybe they don't stress test newly built servers....

twest

JohnB it was way too sus. You know they like to brag about how they keep costs down by designing and manufacturing their own custom mobos/servers, well I think they actually keep costs down by using the lowest quality materials possible. The failure rate was just insane. This was on their higher end rigs too! Thank god for having a great backups strategy, or ovh would have put me out of business.

cosmoshosting

JohnB
I'm yet to see bad thermal paste kill or thermal throttle a CPU to the point it was noticeably unusable. Certainly not since speedstep and turbo boost became a thing.
I'd probably put it down to the cooler becoming unseated, no redundancy in cooling or if it was one of their watercooled machines a hose becoming kinked.

Zoinkies My brother in Christ, the network was one of their biggest pit-falls, they don't have any internal firewall or security, or even a edge firewall that works yet.

At-least in Aus/SG it was pretty decent from external threats and performed well within our small island. Maybe it's different in other regions.
The issue was people DDoS'ing us from within OVH's network that caused real problems.

Kosta

JohnB applying thermal paste is art. I got laptop I had to apply thermal paste 5-6 times until I get it right. Other systems I put thermal paste from first time but that laptop needed it somehow on diff way…
Diff cpu diff cooler. However I strongly recommend Arctic for thermal paste !

JohnB

Kosta it's tricky if you lack experience. I grew up building computers and then later did it professionally. I will say, many heatsink brands just straight up lie about their cooling capacity.

Most people's issue is they put on too much or use a brand that's sensitive to air bubbles. Or they don't COMPLETELY clean the CPU and heatsink.

Artic or better is great. But cheapskates like ovh will be using that garbage white toothpaste stuff.

tecreasey

enhost I agree, they could be better and I hope that as they grow, hopefully this will happen.

bluelinq-computers

Zoinkies LMAO FR THO! OVH is literal garbage as an infrastructure provider.

twest

JohnB I always go in wanting to do it the "right way", and then end up just squirting it on my finger and rubbing it on LOL

Never had a problem with thermal paste 💪😆

JohnB

twest Yeah these days if you are using a high quality brand that won't be causing air bubbles. Supposedly it used to be an issue back when the white crap was used commonly. Any spatula type applicator will waste far more paste than a finger.

I know Intel and AMD all claim to just use a dot in center or x pattern etc but when I tested, I got no difference. I like knowing every bit is covered. Youtubers say I'm wrong but they also recommend NordVPN and Shadow Legends so...

Fun fact Artic silver doesn't taste as bad as you'd think

twest

JohnB Bwaha, I'm the same way! I just scoff at the thought of placing a dot and calling it good. Maybe that's good enough for an OVH engineer ♿♿♿

rdbf

twest Maybe that's good enough for an OVH engineer ♿♿♿

They call 'em ungineer

JohnB

Sadly I bet they start out there as good engineers. Then eventually having pride in their work gets beat out of them and they just do their shitty job.

Doing something correctly is always more time consuming and a lot of companies punish you for being "slow". Eventually, employees that are capable of very good work just stop caring.

They stop showing up each day wanting to do good work they can be proud of. They show up and put a dot on a CPU that still has plastic on it while thinking about getting paid on Friday.

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