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OVH is also nice. They're French I believe. And you're right, they're mostly like old school VPS providers. In US there is https://phoenixnap.com/ In UK there is https://www.heficed.com/ I am sure there are more.

Performance: - PhoenixNap SecuredCloud http://www.phoenixnap.com/ (US-West, US-East, Amsterdam) [VMWare based, spinup time is about 45 seconds, offers every imaginable feature for large production environments, enterprise firewall, f5 load balancing, 100% uptime SLA] Value: - Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/ (US-East, Amsterdam) [KVM/QEMU based, spinup time is under a minute, decent 'basic' API] As a current customer of both companies, we use Digital Ocean to host our company VPN and development nodes, and PhoenixNAP to host our production sites. (Bandwidth at PhoenixNAP is billed @.05- per gb, very competitive compared to EC2 especially considering they use exclusively premium bandwidth)

`rm -rf /` will refuse to delete the root folder. You can see an example of it doing that here. https://phoenixnap.com/kb/sudo-rm-rf

you would see an unusual number of TXT requests pointed at a domain, and each set of subdomains requested would likely be repeated. https://phoenixnap.com/kb/dns-record-types#TXT_Record

PhoenixNAP has them by the hour or month https://phoenixnap.com/bare-metal-cloud/instances#arm

> Interesting, thank you. Glad to help out. Here[0] is more information regarding Linux swap space as it relates to processes and the VMM subsystem. > I stand by my original point, downvotes be damned. :-D 0 - https://phoenixnap.com/kb/swap-space

You are asking on HN which means you might want to look at M5Hosting, which hosts HN itself. Otherwise, https://www.liquidweb.com/dedicated-server-hosting/ https://www.hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/ https://phoenixnap.com/servers/dedicated

Another write up: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/unikernel-vs-container

for linux, try the scp command. It works wonders! Also, rsync is very useful https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-rsync-over-ssh

Before RPKI, any network on the internet could announce any prefix (e.g. 2001:630::/32) to any neighbour, whether they had the right to or not. With RPKI, the owner of the prefix has to authorize a network to announce the route, so this helps to prevent networks from hijacking prefixes. One caveat is that it depends upon networks checking the RPKI database when receiving prefixes from neighbours, but pretty much all the major networks do this now. For more information, there is a good article here: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/rpki

> Ah, I see! We are using the phrase “googling” differently here. I explicitly mean googling as a verb that involves reading and parsing information, not the act of avoiding reading or parsing information. In order to make things friendlier towards search, nigh any answer you find will be drowned in a sea of junk. Eg, Googling sends me to: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-zip-a-file-in-linux It does have an answer, around the middle of the page. https://i.imgur.com/jVEyCZe.png (useful answer on the bottom) Here's what I actually want: https://i.imgur.com/tXOEIIX.png What I actually want most of the time is the closest equivalent to "Hey Bob, what's the command to zip up a folder on Linux?"

https://hackernoon.com/tips-to-reduce-docker-image-sizes-876095da3b34 https://rollout.io/blog/reduce-docker-image-size/ https://phoenixnap.com/kb/docker-image-size https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1133826/tips-to-reduce-Docker-ima…

I am :) but there's no doubt that cryptocurrency has made ransomware easier to write/execute, makes it harder to catch people responsible, and availability thereof has led to massive worldwide spike in ransomware. [1] Seriously, what options did you have to obtain the value before? A wire transfer? [1] https://phoenixnap.com/blog/ransomware-statistics-facts

> Maybe at one point, but at this point the general audience > B) Knows enough to do things right Reality check: https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/34822/the-state-of-ransomware-in-the-us-r… Note that not all these incidents resulted from drive-by-downloads or elaborate hacks: > Riviera Beach: In June, Riviera Beach, Florida, was hit with ransomware when a police department employee opened a malicious email attachment. In 2019, people still click every e-mail attachment unchecked, even though e-mail attachments have been a primary vector for attacks for decades at this point. Putting faith in the abilities of the average user is the first step towards disaster. The average user is not more aware or capable in 2020 than they were in 1995. People still carelessly put random USB drives into their machines, still open dodgy e-mail attachments and still download and execute installers and other executables from random websites. Some sobering stats for mobile [1]: > Less than 20% of mobile malware is delivered via a browser — the remainder of the payloads come through an app. (Source: RSA Current State of Cybercrime) Last but unfortunately not least, unpatched systems are still presenting a completely avoidable attack vector for malware and ransomware, because users (both private and industrial/institutional) fail to update their systems [2]. So no, the harsh reality is that the average user is neither aware, nor capable of "doing things right". [1]…