Topic: FENNEC: Virtual & dedicated servers, SSL certificates & domain registration (Read 6783 times)

LOL I can be an AUR package maintainer, like 3 people use Arch linux, let me know when get gentoo running from source then you will be a linux person I will even trust

I have a raid 2 - 0 disk looking me in the face so explain that

yes there is raid 2-0 and the "+" meant greater

Thanks Largo, look forward to hearing your feedback.

If you have any problems, let us know via the e-mail and we'll do anything we can to sort them out.

I just rented a server from him + domain and SSL Cert.

Total was 88 BTC because i paid in advance for 6 month.

The whole setup procedure only took 3 days and he was always quick with answering my questions (it was the first time i installed a SSL Certificate).

I will give some more feedback in a few month, so far im happy with my purchase.

Thanks Luceo

Hopefully got an ad on the forum coming up!

If any established members of the community want to try the service out and offer an honest opinion, let me know and I'll hook you up with a free trial.

So far we're doing well, got a number of signups and a couple of domains registered, so if anyone wants to check us out join the IRC or e-mail [email protected].

It's easy to explain, you're a clueless troll.

Does a stage3 install count? I ran gentoo for a while on my Macbook Air because no other distros wanted to run and the #gentoo IRC room was one of the most helpful with setting up a MBA friendly kernel and helped me find a patch for the screen backlight (by default, you can't turn it down).

Problem I found with gentoo was an upgrade just straight-up took too long because everything was source-based. Hence moving to Arch Linux because it maintains the rolling release (no huge block releases with big likelihood of issues like Debian or Fedora) but allows you to install from binaries -OR- source, which is far more practical than compiling everything (openoffice, xulrunner, firefox etc take a *long* time).

Having said that, gentoo IRC and forums are very knowledgeable and I'd recommend them even to users of other distros, because you can learn a lot just by monitoring. I also love the ebuilds and overlays, very intuitive, yet powerful, package management.

1. I'm not sure how my ability to script affects whether I could swap out a hotswap drive (yes, I can).
2. I don't need to swap out a hotswap drive, I have remote hands at the datacenter who can do that for me.
3. I'm not sure how you could read 'RAID data redundancy' as 'no raid disks'. It's RAID-1 on 2 HDD arrays and RAID-10 on 4 HDD arrays though, since you asked.

I think I've proven, by running Arch Linux for several years and being an AUR package maintainer, as well as operating Fennec Internet Services that I know plenty about Linux & hosting. I'm not naive enough to think I can't learn more, though scripting isn't the top of my list of priorities, but I know more than enough to ensure a quality service for my customers.

If you can do better, by all means buy some servers and compete, and we'll let the market decide. For as long as you keep failing to address my points, I'll just have to assume you're just harassing another of my threads.

There is no 2-0. Or raid 2 - its one of those raids that never got used......

There is no such thing as raid as 2-0+. Hell even RAID 2 doesn't exists..... Only in spec docs.

Just going to clarify a few more of gweedo's inaccuracies.

1. Not being able to write extensive scripts != not being able to use Linux commands. I'm more than proficient in Linux.
2. It's rsync. Nice to know you don't even know what you're talking about.
3. The opening post addresses this: "All of our servers are Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron-based machines, with RAID data redundancy."

Also, just for your information, no serious computer enthusiast, let alone an IT professional, would refer to RAID as a backup. It's not a backup, it's just a fail-safe against disk failure. It does nothing to protect data against far more common issues like user error, physical damage or data corruption. If FIS hardware fails, it will be replaced in place within 24 hours.

So, to clarify:
a) You judge other people based on their post count, not the merits of their arguments.
b) You claim to be a programmer, yet you see no gap between programming and sysadmin work.
c) You can't read, and/or don't bother to read the text in front of you
d) You make a bunch of accusations that you (of course, because they're untrue) can't back up.

Don't mind gweedo, he is just being himself, he has a record on trying to find scammers in the community. With Rugatu earlier this year https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/rugatu-qa-support-thread-94879


Luceo is an outstanding member of the community, and I'm planning to use the hosting services he provides in the future. I've been recommending him with confidence to allot of my friends too. A while ago he organized a contest for the creation of his company logo on Rugatu http://www.rugatu.com/questions/2327/logo-design-contest-fennec-internet-services, and didn't have any issues paying the rewards and tips to community members who participated.

Wow, did you really just judge someone's post on his post count...?

Yes, I read the thread in its entirety in fact.  There still is no evidence of any scamming having occurred and it is still uncool to try to smear someone because their logic doesn't exactly coincide with your own.  You are more than welcome to have any opinion you like of anyone here, Luceo and myself included, but to be purposefully derailing topics and throwing around accusations with nothing behind them is just rude.

@gweedo: Luceo has publicly asked for someone to step up and tell everyone that they were scammed by him.  The lack of this happening seems to indicate either that a) he hasn't scammed anyone, b) the person he scammed is no longer active or hasn't seen this request, or c) is for some reason scared to do so.  The fact that you are trying to label him a scammer but not giving any details of any actual scamming that has occurred indicates to me that it is neither b nor c, therefore the most likely scenario is a.  Either back up what you claim or stop harassing people - just going around saying that everyone that isn't extremely well known in the community is a scammer if they can't prove that they didn't scam anyone (which is impossible to prove) isn't cool; it doesn't help the community unless there is evidence that something illegitimate has happened.

Back to topic: I talked with Luceo about ordering a server about a month, month and a half ago (not sure exactly when) and he was very friendly and answered all of my questions professionally.  He also didn't pressure me into ordering anything; when I said I wasn't ready yet he accepted that and let me take the time I needed to make the decision and to prepare for the transfer from my previous VPS.  I ordered a server from him a little over a week ago and have had no significant issues.  He has been helpful and reasonable in all transactions (I also bought a couple of anonymous domains and upgraded the server since initial purchase) and has been willing to help with anything I requested.  FIS has so far been a very nice and usable service that I'm happy to be doing business with, with better support and cheaper prices than many of the other VPS hosts I have used in the past (including ScopeHosts, HostAVPS, Softsys Hosting, and NQhost).

You may be wondering about the phrase "no significant issues" I used above.  Nothing is perfect, but so far the only issues I've had at all with this service is some non-urgent communication lags (playing IRC PM tag) as we are in very different timezones, etc, and one downtime of the VPS yesterday for a short time which was out of Luceo's control and he has made significant efforts to make up for it (crediting everyone that was affected extra time for their services, etc).  None of these "issues" come close to overcoming the positive things FIS has to offer.

I know enough scripting to run these processes and have run UNIX-based web servers since 2006. Backups are not within our remit but they'd be done with rsync on cron if they were; we migrate VPS's by mounting the old logical volume and the new logical volume and copying across with permissions preserved. Neither of these operations require me to be a master programmer (which is not something I've ever claimed to be).

Those things which need to be automated have been. Amongst these:
- Bringing up all VPS's on a reboot
- The setup processes for new VPS's
- Downtime detection & traffic monitoring

I don't believe in automation for the sake of automation, and if the scripting wouldn't save any time (as in the case of vanity generation) compared to the time it takes to automate and doesn't offer any other benefits, it doesn't get automated.

I'm glad we can now have a clear and open discussion without hysterical accusations and hope that this reply satisfies your curiosities.

dam, stop being an ass!!

Luceo or FIS isn't a scam, i've been using it for over 2 months, and its the best i ever have used..

just because you didnøt like what he did, or wtf you are trying to say ( nothing makes sense of what you write ) doesn't mean he a scammer, he need to scam first, i as far i know, he haven't..


so i'll like to see some prof from you, else.. fuck off..

You keep bringing this back, about this vanity generation service which I offered in my fledgeling days on the forum. Whether or not I scripted a pipe into a script was irrelevant, as either way the user would submit a request ('1something') and get a response by e-mail, IM or whatever.

If I were a scammer, I could have said I put the pipe into the script, not actually done so, and sent them an e-mail.
If I were not a scammer, the pipe would have achieved nothing because I would never have planned to use the private key myself anyway.

The pipe did not remove trust from the equation, so I elected not to do it as it was an investment of time for no gain.

Where I come from, to be a scammer, you have to scam somebody and I have not ever done that despite having had numerous times where I've been in control of other peoples' money and in no small amount. Could whoever Gweedo alleges I have scammed please step forward and say something?

I have never planned to scam anybody.
I have never scammed anybody.
I will never scam anybody.

Please either substantiate your claims or stop harrassing me. It doesn't do your reputation any good for you to go around hysterically finger-pointing with no evidence whatsoever.

Thanks.