New .tech domain thanks to @anon86539743 as usual
With that, hereâs all @anon38816646 's domain in my control
New .tech domain thanks to @anon86539743 as usual
With that, hereâs all @anon38816646 's domain in my control
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The Internet has changed a lot since the forum era â one of them being the increasing number of devices conflicting with a fixed number of IP addresses.
So itâs pretty common these days that multiple people share a same IP â like here in China itâs pretty common for a single IP to serve like thousands of legitimate, individual visitors.
And thus IP isnât as powerful as it once was back in the old days.
Even if thereâs IPv6, it isnât as widely used as IPv4, and most ISPs prefer to connect you to the Internet with IPv4 taking precedence.
So it shouldnât be a mystery. What ChrisPAR said back then was a possible scenario and probably was the truth â those are two different accounts sharing the same IP.
He should take this as a lesson to not mess with close dudes in order to avoid such misunderstandings and trolls, though.
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The first example that comes to mind is a student dormitory
where many people use the Internet, and the forum sees an âexternalâ IP.
It was a long time ago when the forum was vanilla
so I canât see any important data (IP, email, etc.), except to kill that acc and see what appeared in the block list.
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At least it isnât codoforum. That forum software is dead these days.
Several days ago their main website is not even loading up at all. These days itâs back up, and Iâm only seeing spam all over their site. 
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Usually, if both are available, IPv6 tends to be preferred over IPv4. If you have a dualstack network connection and you try to access a website that has both AAAA and A records, your device will try IPv6 first. And there is nothing your ISP can do about that.
Also, there is a strong incentive for ISPs that use CGNAT (where multiple customers share an IP address) to prefer IPv6: the NAT handling requires some very powerful and very expensive routers (or rather firewalls) to work, which is much more costly than just forwarding network traffic. So the more traffic goes over IPv6, the lower the operational costs for the carrier.
Which is a good thing, because it incentivizes ISPs to offer IPv6, which helps breaks the catch-22 of IPv6 implementation.
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He didnât take personal data from users via PM pretending to be byet.
When I was teenager I shot with ak-47 and from a 9mm pistol
and disassembled the ammo from the anti-aircraft gun which had detonators inside
The pipe is used like a lever and move it until I separate it from the shells
and then lit the gunpowder I collected because it was fun (I could have died every time)âŚ
I also had a collection of 2 bombs and 120 different bullets,
I believe that the same is the case with teenagers in Ukraine who live near the front lines.
Pictures taken from the net
So this âhisâ joke (if it was him) on some forum is perfectly ok.
Sometimes you need to break the monotony a little and joke in a moderate and responsible way.
I mentioned that topic more because until then there was no chit-chat topic (there was no informal category like now) and it was the first time that we all talked a little more casually in a topic.
Later we had another chit chat topic, but we were always somewhat careful that we would anger the admin because officially there was no âchatâ category, so the conversations lasted a short time (1-2 days with a 10-20 posts).
Oh yes, and there were no personal messages
and many who didnât know opened messages that ended in public in some category in some narrow place and required a lot of scrolling
Then I also put an avatar with a hot woman
and sent kisses to ChrisPAR through it, and others commented that I was a hot chick and believed that I was female
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I know iFastNet changed their plan specs, but man, I donât know they changed so dramatically like this:
I still remembered when I checked it back in the 2023, the resource limits are
- Starter 50% Speed / 512 MB RAM
- Super 100% Speed / 1 GB RAM
- Ultimate 150% Speed / 1 GB RAM
Sadly, I still have no money 
Even though with this kind of resources iFastNet is definitely cheaper than most hosts 
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If iFastNet Staffâs taking notes here, writing 100% on CPU speed means nothing from customer view, we only trust GHz. You can have 1GHz on 5000% while having the actual figures down to some other unknown value.
And yes, not all customers know the GHz thing so they should put more references.
At least, they would prefer long staying technical customers more than short-lived mini websites regardless of PR considerations.
At this pricing btw, itâs not the best offer but decent. Pricing is a major consideration factor but also server performance and support SLAs. Take note from other popular hosts and compare.
Cheers!
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The iFastNet plan is very good under this price except IOPS. Even Hostinger (infamous for all the fake & paid reviews all over the Internet) have 1024 IOPS for the cheapest plan, while iFastNet gives you 800 at most. I would rather increase IOPS more rather than CPU & RAM more lol
As for the GHz thing, if you are considering this very only host it matters less. (I donât feel it practical for a hosting provider to mix up many different kinds of servers in a single cluster, so all those CPUs would run on a same frequency.) It was indeed useful if you are seeking for different hosts, so you can compare the server power precisely.
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I normally deprioritize hosting with IOPS limits as that is a huge bottleneck for high-frequency applications, which I have to deal with most of the time.
Hostinger is very cheap in terms of price but Iâm not entirely comfortable with their market expansion decisions to certain locations. Also they do not have white-labelling or robust reseller features that are on-par with options that I have access to.
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My feeling about web hosting reviews these days is that thereâre two types of them:
- Genuine reviews.
- Hostinger ADs.
And yes, a lot of their limits isnât very preferrable. So I eventually noped out of Hostinger. (Their free hosting service 000webhost is also a piece of junk.)
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Iâm gonna add âServer performance and securityâ to my list.
In fact most hosting limits are not preferrable due to them being âlimitsâ, and as a webmaster you wonât know when you need that stretch beyond the fixed meter. And if your hosting does not allow some flexibility or let you pay beyond your plan usage as add-ons, then your websiteâs doomed and you cannot grow until you upgrade.
Any hosting with free tiers has to be subsidized in some way, either through ads or paying customers. With Hostinger having very cheap prices (and so does the quality), they donât have as much margin as IF<->IFN has, which explains why things are in proportion.
However if you have to strictly speak for customers, they will have second thoughts if they know they are paying not just for the costs of their own hosting, but also sponsoring for free tiers. In that case, itâs either a economical decision or moral value alignment. IF only works if their values are uphold correctly - which is pretty easy as IF enables everyone with an online presence - that also is what web hosting does.
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Even GHz is meaningless. Here is a comparison of a 2.2 GHz and a 2.3 GHz server processor:
The 2.3 GHz processor is over 2.5 times as fast on a single core. That cannot be explained by a 100 MHz difference. But it can be explained by the 2.3 GHz processor being almost 12 years newer. So youâd actually need to know the CPU model to be able to accurately compare performance.
And then you still have to consider things like overselling. I donât think that iFastNet will have 2 CPU cores reserved at all times for every single Starter account. And the higher loaded the server it, the worse it will perform.
This is why things like server power are typically not advertised: the numbers are meaningless. For comparing plans within one provider it might make sense (if the provider uses a single generation of hardware, which is often not the case), but definitely not for comparing different providers.
Is ~500 IOPS not enough for most sites? Most IO operations for most websites are done in a MySQL database, and Iâm pretty sure those are not counted. I think those IOPS are only for PHP code, and thatâs not that IO intensive.
I disagree with you there. Itâs pretty common to start with a few servers, and expand capacity later on with newer hardware. And eventually replace only the oldest hardware, not the newer stuff. Financially, itâs more convenient to just buy smaller amounts of hardware every year than replace everything all at once.
I know that free hosting has different server generations in the cluster, and I expect the same for the premium hosting.
As long as you keep this in mind when distributing account, the performance should be similar enough across the board.
Apologies in advance for what Iâm about to say. Bashing competitors is not OK, but calling Hostinger cheap is just objectively not true.
A Hostinger Premium plan is more expensive than an iFastNet Super Premium plan: $7.99 for Hostinger and $4.44 for iFastNet. And thatâs optimistic, because youâd need to pay for 2 years at Hostinger and only 1 year at iFastNet.
Thatâs comparing the âno free domainâ pricing from iFastNet. Because I donât feel that buying a two year hosting plan and only getting a domain name for one year included qualifies as a âfree domainâ.
Itâs still cheaper than EIG/Newfold brands (who also do this âfree domain for one yearâ thing now), but I still wouldnât call their hosting cheap.
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Yes, thatâs true, that is why hosting across the board have to disclose more on this information rather than a % figure that we as customers see based on nothing.
Typical business practice there. The best $-printing machine is to keep the machine busy.
Well, weâre just talking about in general to get a hosting started. Sure, different plans with all the details enumerated will for sure have some competition going on there, but since my concern is already not about the money so basically I didnât look into that as much. If you do not want us mentioning it being âcheapâ then I get your point, itâs not.
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one old war chest that I keep
I donât remember what it was for⌠by weight it is something 
Thanks AI - itâs very useful
blah blahâŚ
Christmas decorations are inside 
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I just tried uploading .htaccess to a post and got this
it says that htaccess is a valid extension but it doesnt like it , possibly because there is no file name ?
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Nah, itâs a security thing, you can always paste the code block instead.
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well if its blocked from uploading then htaccess should be removed from the pop-up list of valid file extensions, I thought the error might have been because a .htaccess file is unusual as it has no filename
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instead of the name .htaccess
upload something like dummyname.htaccess
and then tell the user to remove the first part and leave the dot
and let me know if it passed
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Oh boyâŚ
First it was the webp, then the xz utilsâŚ
Now PHP.
Weâre getting a lot of bigger vulnerabilities here lol.
To be fair though, this new vulnerability would be pretty hard for a remote attacker to exploit
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