Recent content by Merrok

Ello, it is a me, the annoying guy whenever anyone suggests OVH only. Today: More arguments on why not to use OVH. Thanks to a huge screw up they did. I was actually hoping for more people asking just to bring that incident up :) Actually just gonna copy paste my last answer about this topic and...

That would be great. Thank you a lot. Yeah, there will always be issues like this. It has always been a tradeoff between usability and security. But at some point, it is irresponsible not to switch in my opinion. Seen as TFS is an unfinanced open-source project (to my knowledge, correct me if...

Where did you get that information from? A simple comparison of a few providers will show you the exact opposite. I just did, sadly I couldn't find the exact CPU model OVH uses in their vServers. But other than that, I get the same RAM, amount of cores and a better network connection for half...

What? I gave you a good reason why I won't ^^ You have to understand that making specific claims and not backing them up with references is stupid in general and on a website with the same owner... yeah... So I don't go into specifics in public. You are right, I shouldn't make any claims at all...

Ugh, I was really hoping not having to start this again. But here we go... Yes, many of the servers are routing to huge companies (a lot more than the ones you mentioned) due to reselling. That does not matter! First, you need to understand that different services target different groups. That's...

I will not elaborate on the OTLand hosting service as this is an entire thread on its own. Going through the threads and support section will give you a general idea already though. For the rest some basic knowledge and a little research is all that is needed. Maybe I will get around to making...

Actually didn't know that. I just remembered years ago there being attempts and options to use SHA2. So I just assumed it was possible for a long time already. My fault for not looking into that. Thank you for pointing it out. Sadly that doesn't make it any better since it actually is an...

Two years since and I still don't see any development. Basically all OTservers are still using sha1. Outdated, not supported, and easy to brute force. Might as well not hash at all then. At least a bigger amount of servers now use SSL (TLS) and encrypt their website traffic. But it is still not...

Firstly to the resources you need. Yeah a bit more RAM than 2GB would be good. The webserver will basically not need any, so don't worry about that. But you will grow and you don't want to move every 2 months. That's just a pain. You will want to look for a provider with cheap second options as...

Antiviruses often flag unknown services and websites they can't associate as PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application). Which isn't exactly wrong with OTservers. Those are false positives in many cases. As Gesior said, you can contact antivirus "authors" to take care of this. Most of them have...

Well, there is a reason for separate options of database-IP and game-IP. They don't need to be the same. In fact, they should not be the same. So just set the database IP to localhost and the game IP to your domain. Same with the website. The webserver and of the webserver should be set to your...

Well, you got scammed and hopefully learned from it. I see it as very positive behavior to share your story. This can only be dealt with by educating blind people and share those kinds of stories. Sharing his name/discord tag is something I see as questionable though. But that's a topic for...

So where is the problem now exactly? You said yourself it works using localhost. I assume you are running the database on the same machine the server is running on. So it SHOULD be localhost (or a private subnet ip like 192.168.x.x). So just set it to localhost or 127.0.0.1 There is no reason to...

I'm actually not sure about that. Microsoft has been looking to do steps in this direction for years. Even attempting to buy Ubuntu at one time. Big surprise, the linux community wasn't happy about that, so they backed out. And since the linux community has been taking alot of steps lately to...

The number actually already gives you a hint what the bug might be and implies a direction. 2147483647 is exactly 2^31 -1 and thereby known as a double Mersenne prime. This was the largest known prime for a long time and is the largest positive number a 32-bit integer can be declared as. I love...