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Behind Carrier Grade NAT or a firewall? Want to host servers? Try Static IP Tunneling.
Historically, broadband connections gave a public IPv4 address which made hosting servers relatively easy with a dynamic DNS service. Increasingly, newer ISPs such as Starlink, T-Mobile and fast-growing Asian ISPs like Jio use Carrier Grade NAT to conserve their public IPv4 address pool. In addition, some users use university and mobile networks where port forwarding…
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The bottom-up approach to growing enterprise technology
New technology products are being introduced every day. With that, a variety of development and marketing strategies are employed by different firms, from incumbent IT vendors like Microsoft to cutting-edge startups. In fact, competing companies often use opposing strategies for their products. When building technology products reaching corporate users, there are two development and marketing…
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How to run a Tor Relay on a VPS for under $3.50/month (step-by-step guide)
How to run a Tor Relay on a VPS for under $3.50/month: A step-by-step guide. I have been running Tor relays for over a decade and ran middle, and bridge, relays located across the world. I currently run Tor exit relays on Fourplex. Unlike other privacy solutions like commercial VPNs, Tor depends on volunteers running…
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The Hard Drive Shortage Hurts Small Cloud Hosts Too
Western Digital announced they sold out their entire manufacturing capacity for 2026, due to the AI boom. AI-caused shortages aren’t new; it also happened to memory. Hard Drive manufacturers’ focus on datacenters isn’t new: the rise of flash memory in consumer systems coincided with the rise of Big Data. With this movement, it’s no secret…
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We are a VPS host. We allow Tor exit relays. Here’s why.
It’s no secret that most VPS hosts disallow Tor exit relays and many prohibit any Tor traffic whatsoever. Yes, a few hosts allow these, but conditionally. For instance, RamNode permits only non-exit relays, while others, like OVH and Gigahost, allow exit relays, but only if you purchase a dedicated server. However, a select group of…
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Designing a Modern VPS Server: The Hardware Blueprint
It’s no secret that our flagship VPS range uses AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Ryzen CPUs are also popular with other competitive VPS hosts. What’s lesser known is the full configuration of our servers and why we chose our components. Barebones Unlike custom-built desktop PCs where parts are separate, custom-built servers are built on barebone rackmount…