Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
On 25/06/05 22:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: encrypting the information we rsync Not just over the wire, according by your webpage, but even backup server can't decrypt it. Excellent. But how can you do that with a secure (hence chained) encryption mode while maintaining the communication

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
On 29/06/05 12:37, Eran Tromer wrote: secure (hence chained) encryption mode Or more generally, a mode with an IV that changes between encryptions. Eran = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Eran Tromer wrote: On 25/06/05 22:26, Shachar Shemesh wrote: encrypting the information we rsync Not just over the wire, according by your webpage, but even backup server can't decrypt it. Excellent. Otherwise we gain nothing. But how can you do that with a secure (hence

rsyncrypto (was: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-29 Thread Eran Tromer
Ahoy, On 29/06/05 13:50, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Not just over the wire, according by your webpage, but even backup server can't decrypt it. Excellent. Otherwise we gain nothing. You'd gain protection from a 3rd-party adversary listening in on the traffic (if you didn't a secure channel like

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This sounds like a good deal, although they don't specify in their web page: * number of servers they are already hosting * detailed info about their incoming/outgoing lines (their pipe) * availability of remote console - whats the cost * reboot service (if needed) - whats the cost * detailed

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-28 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Ok.. 1. genuian are only providing shared host solutions, for someone who only host a small web sites and want to put his video/pictures, some mail accounts, small stuff like that. Their biggest offering is 1.2GB space. tell me again what can I really do with it? host my /tmp? :) I did the

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-28 Thread shtirlitz
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This sounds like a good deal, although they don't specify in their web page: * number of servers they are already hosting Have no idea. * detailed info about their incoming/outgoing lines (their pipe) Same here, for states their lines are ok. *

EV1 and SCO (was: Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-26 Thread Omer Zak
I remember EV1, and have googled them to confirm that they are the ISP, which purchased from SCO a license to use Linux. The license terms (unless they got a deal with terms not publicly disclosed) allow them and their customers to run only specific binary kernel versions and forbid them and

Re: EV1 and SCO (was: Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS)

2005-06-26 Thread Omer Zak
Do not tell SCO about your experience. They desperately need your money to finance their lawsuits against IBM, Novell and RedHat. On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 08:35 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Well, I read the TOS already 2 times, and I signed for a machine, and compiled/booted 4 different kernels

offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
This is a story about renting a Linux Virtual Private server that I rented. There was a company called ExecutiveASP that sold VPS at a very competitve price. For $39 you would get: * Xeon 3 Ghz machine (well, not the entire processor, but it was very fast) * 256MB RAM * 10 GB hard drive * 2 IP's

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Fri, 24 Jun: Lesson to be learned - check really really well before signing up! it always worth paying a bit more and to find that you can have a serious company behind the offer... I doubt there are any checks you can make about legal status of the

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: But the number 1 lesson - backup daily. I have a very active server, the main site on it is a photographers' forum and on a good weekend some 150 megs of pictures might be uploaded, about a gig of JPEGs are uploaded each month, and still with a smart usage of the disk space,

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
While we're on this topic: EV1servers.net are offerring a really cool offer: * Celeron 1.7 Ghz * 512MB RAM * 1000GB Transfer (soft) limit * 60GB hard drive (IDE) No virtualization, no nothing - simply a machine (Intel 845 chipset it seems, at least from the lspci output), for $99 a month with

Re: offtopic: a sad story about VPS

2005-06-25 Thread shtirlitz
Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While we're on this topic: EV1servers.net are offerring a really cool offer: * Celeron 1.7 Ghz * 512MB RAM * 1000GB Transfer (soft) limit * 60GB hard drive (IDE) It is a bit expensive deal. I have a dedicated server in zanadoo.com Their support