So a VPN provieder has to check with the laws of all the countries in the world to be able to function ? does'nt make sense you cant create logs if you don't log anything ..
I deleted my proton account about a year ago when I saw that I could not login from tor anymore, kudos to tutanota for allowing to register/login without a cell phone it must be really challenging !
My solution - crappy china phone and the cheapest pre-paid sim card I can find. I turn it on, receive my SMS, then turn it off again. Doesn't track back to me because I paid cash, doesn't report my location because china phones don't have GPS, isn't on the VOIP or multiuser blacklist because its a "real" phone number.
It won't protect you against three letter agencies - it is more my double middle finger to everyone who thinks SMS verification has value, or somehow the gateway to marketing to me, or being able to harass me if they wanted. I have the telco turn off voice mail on the number so that nobody can produce phone records showing a completed call and say I was contacted.
Just FYI for anyone having this issue, Tor 2.0 is deprecated and has been hit or miss for roughly the past year. As long as you're using their Tor 3.0 onion address you should have few issues.
I mean this is just basic stuff, for me it just sounds like a developer putting a site in production, no auto-scaling, patching ... might as well outsource this to a CDN since there is no database/redis/varnish ...
In terms of CPU it is not totally overkill if you're using an IPS/IDS, bare in mind you'll also be disabling most of the network card offloading in a full fledged firewall and that will ultimately result in consuming slightly more CPU cycles.
Yes the transceivers recommended by Init7 (bidi-LR) do not support FEC and you'll be running in degraded mode (according to the controller datasheet), and I don't think this is something that can be achieved by coding of the transceivers.
The remote end is a Cisco C9500-48Y4C, on which one can turn off FEC.
On the Intel side, I found https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents..., which mentions that while No-FEC might result in “poor link quality” (sure, that’s why people use FEC), it does not say anything about degraded mode or limits to 10G.
I’m using the machine also as a server, so it replaces 2 existing devices. In terms of power consumption, it’s likely only a small increase, if at all.
My only rub with that is - shouldn't the router be only a router from a security perspective? Definitely combining servers for home use does make sense though.
Ideally yes. But with the resources needed for 25 Gbps, not using one machine for multiple purposes seems wasteful. The server only stores publically available data, though, so not a big deal from a security perspective.
Yeah running your nas-bittorrent/firewall-router on the same OS is clearly not something I would do, especially that now you can use somrthing like proxmox for example and virtualize your pfsense/opnsense instance.
I am using a home server with the same CPU and I am using it for SQL, storage server and virtualization. In order to do that I changed RAM to 32GB DIMMs, 64GB in total was not enough and the CPU works just fine with 32GB DIMMS. The platform is quite limited by the number of available PCIe lanes, but without moving up to Threadripper (a lot more expensive) there is no better option, Intel is in the same place or worse. The good thing with Intel is that you can use a CPU with integrated graphics and save the PCIe lanes for the graphics card.
My previous build (Ryzen 2700, 65W) had a great feature until it was gone with a BIOS update: after installing everything it worked with the graphics card removed. As I always connected only remotely, it was not a problem but a benefit. You can try and see what happens.
Also, the user can use his freedom to build and do whatever wished for. This tone of you shouldn't do this because some COTS is available sounds very commercially driven. People have the power to create another Google, we are not powerless.
Yeah, I have an overpowered router PC (mostly in the capabilites sense --its a low power passively-coolable Xeon), but it also acts as a flash NAS, and hosts a few other containerized services that I prefer are always-on, it's a wireguard endpoint, etc. I've got a separate sometimes-on box for other VMs and containers. That one hosts a windows VM with a VFIO-attached GPU which my living room tv plugs into. Altogether it's lots of computing power for home use but draws relatively little at the wall. I'm pretty happy where I landed in terms of overall utility versus TCO, using this sort of consolidated-hardware approach.
