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I know this isn't related to the "free virtual mining servers", but who on earth would trust this company with their paid virtual crypto mining services. I remember purchasing a "pay once and never again" cloud server from them back in 2014, and they quickly added an "annual maintenance fee". If it's too good to be true, that's because it is.

Link to an older post on this sub for context.

Also, check out their Trustpilot ratings.

This move to "free virtual mining servers" seems to be a way to convince people to help market their paid services while they prepare for their inevitable exit scam.

lol, I'm just about to hit the minimum amount for the minergate's monero to go from unconfirmed to confirmed. Whether or not that means I can get that into a wallet probably is another story. And whether or not that tiny amount is even enough to cover any transaction fee to go from the monero to bitcoin is also another story. Here's something I found that might be of interest to you if you're remotely thinking about turning whatever you're mining into another currency: https://changelly.com/blog/network-fees-suggested-minimum-amounts/

Later today I should have enough to see whether or not I can get whatever I mined into a wallet of the thing I mined. But at this point, I don't see any feasible way to get those pennies turned into another currency.

I was watching some youtube videos talking about some sites that lets you do mundane activities to "earn" bitcoins, and others that lets you mine (off the browser) for monero, but at the end pays out in bitcoin. If this minergate doesn't work out, I'll go seek out whether there's a pool that'll do that instead.

download https://www.mcmyadmin.com/ its a free web interface that will help you with this, also i recommend running your minecraft server on a ramdisk like imdisk http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk and have the backup for the world run to the c:\ via the built in backup in mcmyadmin.

Also make a copy of the whole ramdisk and save it to your desktop on the server incase you ever need to set the ramdisk backup you can just copy the contents to the ramdisk when you rerun it as if you restart or the server crashes the data in the ramdisk will be gone. You can do all this in ubuntu as well but the ramdisk part is harder. I just do it with server 2012 as i own a licence from school.

Disk io is slow on the dev servers so minecraft suffers, but i run mine in a ramdisk and 30 min backups and it runs flawlessly.

a quick google search suggests that MacOS doesn't support nbd - the guys at irc://irc.freenode.net/ 's #macdev suggests it might be possible to use osxfuse instead of nbd, and the guys at #mac said i might be able to use iSCSI instead of nbd

a iSCSI port sounds easier to me than a fuse port, but either way, it seems that porting this to OSX will be non-trivial :( (because OSX doesn't support nbd, which is the main component i'm using to implement the virtual harddrive on linux)

I was able to get email working using nginx and postfix. Just took some investigation. Some good digitalocean articles like https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-postfix-on-ubuntu-14-04

Howie

I just created this one-liner and used it successfully on CaC v1 and v3 Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Debian. You have to do a few extras to get it working in CentOS.

One of my older servers had "Port 22" instead of "#Port 22" so I had to add the 'echo Change is good so exit' to let me know change went through. Once you exit ssh session you can log back in with 'ssh -p 54321 <code>[email protected]</code>'

Just paste this into your ssh terminal session for each server you want to take of port 22.

cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.factory-defaults && sed -ie 's/#Port.*[0-9]$/Port '54321'/gI' /etc/ssh/sshd_config && service sshd restart; cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep Port && echo Change good so exit; cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep Port#

I don't have any firewalls setup on Ubuntu or Debian. You don't have to reboot and you can used the CAC Panel if anything goes wrong. Check out Snowflake ssh session manager if you have enough servers.

If you find that Nano isn't as user friendly as you like and you're running Windows. Then you could always use WinSCP to edit files and it also integrates with Putty. https://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction

> Do you worry about your dedicated server's out of band management page being exposed to the internet?

not really, not nearly as much as i should. that said, CAC support gives the iDRAC/iLO root account when asked for it, and i have secured the idrac root password for all of them (their default idrac root password is sometimes horrible, like "Passw0rd1"), and i have a windows XP VM specifically for using those old iDRAC systems using "Java Applets" that dont' work with modern versions of Java/OS's....

one of them doens't have iDRAC though (it's a 2018 Lenovo ThinkCentre M93P, a special-purpose server, i specifically needed a server with Intel Integrated Graphics, which the vast majority of Xeon's don't have, this server has a single dual-core Core i5-3470T CPU and 8GB ram, but it still works great for what it was intended :) )