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🎃 RackWorks Halloween Special 🎃 25% OFF RECURRING on ALL Plans KVM VPS • LXC Containers • Windows RDP VPS Hosted in Southfield, Michigan (Detroit Metro) with Detroit-IX connected routing Hello HostingDiscussion! We're RackWorks, an independent VPS provider running our own Dell enterprise...

Welcome to the HD, Mauwin! Glad to have you here.

RackWorks (rackworks.net) is a VPS host running out of 123Net's DC1 facility in Southfield, Michigan, connected to Detroit-IX. We run KVM, LXC and Windows RDP on enterprise Intel Xeon Gold hardware that we own and operate, and we keep resource allocation conservative instead of overselling...

Welcome to HD, FireVM. Good to have you here.

Depends on the workload. EPYC wins on density, more cores, more memory channels, more PCIe lanes per socket, so it's the usual pick for VPS/virtualization at scale. Xeon still clocks higher per-core though, which matters for latency-sensitive stuff, and per-core licensed software (Windows...

Welcome, Franco! Glad to have you here. Looking forward to seeing you around the forum!

This is pretty much what we're seeing as a newer provider. We haven't been able to post in the offers sections yet, so most of our activity has just been participating in discussions and sharing our own experience and opinions. Even without really trying to sell anything, we've noticed an uptick...

The ones gone too soon.

Im partial to xenforo myself.

WireGuard is top of my list. Bind SSH, and anything else management-related, to the WG LAN IP instead of leaving it public facing. Cuts attack surface way more than any hardening you do on the public side.

Yes, we accept BTC through Blockonomics. Works well, no custody of funds on our end which is a plus.

Hi Marco! Welcome to Hosting Discussion!

One sneaky mistake is providers shipping dedicated servers with aggressive power-saving profiles enabled in the BIOS to cut their electricity bills. It introduces clock jitter and latency spikes that throttle your performance, meaning you don't always get the raw compute you're paying for...

That'll run 3-4 KVM guests without breaking a sweat, but it really comes down to what's going on inside them. Idle web and mail boxes? You could put a lot more than 4 on there. Databases or game servers? 12 threads goes quick. Only thing I'd change is the OS. Alma 8 is supported to 2029 so...

Routing matters more than distance in my opinion. A well peered box 800 miles away often beats a badly routed one 100 miles out. Check who a provider peers with and test their looking glass before buying. Latency only matters above a threshold. 20ms vs 40ms is invisible for a website, critical...