On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:48:16AM +0800, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > sabagay, i didn't consider that it might have been someone who > legitimately bought hosting, and then is using that hosting to attack > other hosts, in which case the provider isn't necessarily rooted, they > just gave access to someone unscrupulous. > > the or worse was to consider the possibility that it was the hosting > provider itself (owners or sys-ads) who were doing the probing > themselves. but that's probably unlikely and now my theory reduces to > one of their clients probing other hosts instead of the provider being > rooted or trying to root other boxes.
As I'm on the lookout for affordable dedicated self-managed hosting providers (previously had ServerBeach on the top of my list), I checked SagoNet out after reading Andy's post. On the features list of their bargain servers (http://www.sagonet.net/servers/bargains.php), one bit explicitly says "No Restriction on legal content." This is contrast to ServerBeach's AUP that restricts such things as IRC, Peer-to-Peer File Transfer (BitTorrent, et al), illegal and adult content. Must be attracting a certain group of people. I wanna check them out, though. ServerBeach is already very affordable. Their starting Debian package, Power2200 starts at $119/month for an AMD Athlon 2200, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, and 2GB bandwidth per month. SagoNet is even cheaper, though. Their starting Celeron bargain package starts at $65/month for an Intel Celeron 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, and 1.25GB bandwidth per month. I don't know how good SagoNet's physical security is, though. I'm not as worried about "Internet security." Being a self-managed hosting service, I intend to be responsible for that. But I can't do anything about local admins physically toying with my box, so bits about that will be more interesting. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
