JohnTheRipper

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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   William has a long history on LET, he runs a hosting company and is among the most well-known users on the site.
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   I think OVH had a similar issue back when they were giving away test servers. I wasn't on the list, but I heard from several people that the official question/reply address would send emails to everyone on the list. Needless to say, with se
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   I have a BuyVM VPS, even with the filtered IP addon it's still under 1/2 the cost of a Linode with inferior allocations of disk and bandwidth. According to ServerBear, it has a (much) higher overall score, slightly worse average network/uni
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   And why would they get a Linode when they can get a VPS from another provider for much, much cheaper? They don't bring much to the table for the price that a cheaper provider can't offer.
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   There's quite a bit that you're missing. Let's start with point #1. You're paying $1000 upfront. With a VPS, you can pay a few bucks per month to get very decent performance (assuming you go with a LEB instead of a overpriced Linode). You a
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   Well, you could say the same of any forum. I volunteer as a moderator on a rather large forum, it's not quite as large as 4chan but it's among the largest on the internet... It's a lot of work, but we're not the ones running the site itself
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   by JohnTheRipper 14y ago

   IIRC the janitors have very few powers, similar to forum moderators on most forums. I suppose you could claim the admins are helping, but personally, I'd only consider people who directly work on the site's backend/frontend management and d