Be careful with compute intensive tasks. Some providers don't like when you actually utilize your rented hosts.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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Not a problem when self-hosting on own hardware. Especially in winter. Overly complicated spaceheater goes brrrr
Yep, BOINC has regularly warmed my home office over many a winter... until I shutdown that machine.
Maybe I should try again...
What would they do about it?
Find some loophole in their T&C to terminate your account I guess. Similar to how mobile providers don’t like people actually using a lot of bandwidth on their „unlimited“ plans.
Never heard of this so far but maybe. Would be interesting to try
Many providers have specific clauses for this. Ever since crypto mining became a thing providers have included in general terms you can't over use the service. And often specifically against using it for crypto mining.
Providers will normally warn users and only kick them off when no explanation is forthcoming.
Usually this applies to shared services, like a VPS. You pay a lower price because you share hardware. But that only works if the hardware is shared fairly. If another user hogs all the resources, the service is no good for anyone. But it can also apply to seemingly dedicated services, like your own server for example. In that case the server is free to be used for whatever, but things like cooling and power are still shared. A regular dedicated server service will be based on typical use and can kick users out who require too much cooling or power. In cases where the resources are legitimately required, they will offer contracts that allow you to use all of the resources all of the time. But in turn you will have to pay a premium for something like that.
On the surface it may seem like a bit of bullshit, but that's often what allows prices to be as low as they are. So I'm fine with it, as long as it's made clear beforehand (which in my experience it is)
There are often some "fair use" paragraphs in their respective ToS that they could enforce and either terminate your account or request you to uprade to a higher tier product. Usually (not always) VPSs are overprovisioned, so when people start to fully utilize their rented machines theit whole business model goes belly-up.
Made me learn about Archiveteam, thanks :D
Love the art.
I like this, thank you; saving to process further in the coming days...
What's the general thoughts on running a TOR node?
I think an exit node would probably get my (domestic) ISP asking some questions and / or my static IP getting blocklisted quickly
Going to Jail in Germany speedrun any%