Their procurement policy is basically “has it been recommended? Is anyone else using it? Is it cheap?”

I work in public sector.

Market to tax funded institutions. If you can market “self hosted” as cheaper and easier than mother solutions you’ll have guaranteed clients for a long time.

Yeah the Thall style is an interesting subgenre. Think djent but spooky instead of angry? Lol that’s the best I got.

Nah, who am I kidding: similar to djent with a kind of one-liner-comedian delivery of a dynamic range of riffs, interspersed with rhythmic candy, the thing that makes THALL stand out to me is a lot more playing with microtonal bends (which create a spooky aura). I would say a band like Veil Of Maya kind of represents the beginning of a shift into the existence of the genre… Vildjharta made the subtle variation that VoM brought sometimes, their whole thing.

Others followed but I’m old so idk much beyond them.

And if I am not describing HLB and Vildjharta right now, I don’t know what I’m doing 😁

This is the way.

What do you mean by biggest? And what do you mean by metal?

Gojira just played the fuckin Olympics… They’re probably the biggest metal band of all time by some metric at the moment. Like a higher percentage of households have now heard Gojiras music than Metallicas music. Wild.

Last year Sleep Token and Lorna Shore was all anyone was talking about.

Tim Henson is the first guitar god we’ve had since…idk Tosin Abasi? Alexi Laiho? But his band Polyphia is not exactly heavy.

Djent and Thall have kinda came and went, but there was Vildhjarta and Humanity’s last breath for Thall, and Animals As Leaders and Periphery for Djent.

I’m sure Spotify has a different opinion than Billboard or record sales, etc.

Check out Peeping Tom. That was a fun project, and more recent than the rest afaik.

I actually got to see Patton and Bungle perform My Ass Is On Fire very recently. They e been touring again if you weren’t aware!

California isn’t! Lol. I mean there’s heavy parts of air conditioned night are and goodbye sober day but all in all, it’s a pretty bright album.

At the gates and not slaughter of the soul? 😲

1. Between The Buried and Me - Colors

2. Mr. Bungle - California

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5. The Dear Hunter - Act III

6. The Dear Hunter - Act II

7. Eyedea & Abilities - First Born

8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

9. The Ocean - Pelagial

10. Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb

Edit: I didn’t realize this was a metal community post. I just responded for my all time top 10.

If I am focusing on metal, I remove dear hunter, porcupine tree, bungle, and sleep token.

I add both Necrophagist albums, Nobembre’s ‘Everasia’, Animals as leaders self-titled, Opeth’s Still Life, and At The Gates slaughter of the soul…

1. Between The Buried and Me - Colors (2007) [Progressive Metalcore]

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) [Progressive Death Metal]

3. Necrophagist - Epitaph (2004) [Technical Death Metal]

4. Novembre - Everasia (2002) [Progressive Death/Doom Metal]

5. Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (1999) [Technical Death Metal]

6. The Ocean - Pelagial (2013) [Progressive Metal]

7. Animals as Leaders - Self-titled (2009) [Progressive Metal/Djent]

8. Opeth - Still Life (1999) [Progressive Death Metal]

9. At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) [Melodic Death Metal]

10. Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (2007) [Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore]

Hahaha. I purposely got a jibberish .xyz domain. If they ever ask for more than the $9.99 a year they can pound sand.

It is absolutely a dangerous life lol.

I keep everything backed up. It was a temporary purchase that I fully did not expect to last 5 years.

It’s literally been a clicker since day 1 lol.

No failures. No slow reads. Just a zombie beast.

I’m using a western digital refurb HDD. 14TB.

running 24/7 pretty much since the pandemic. It’s basically my media server.

They’ve been my go-to rec for like 6 years 😢

Their support is top tier, which is important when it’s important. But this complicates things. I’ll have to take a close look at the competition these days.

Damn. I always though they were one of the good ones.

Don’t get me started 😂

I worked for a company that had over 300 clients with sites with them. They don’t give a fuck. We literally moved over 300 accounts to another provider over their shit support/sales teams. Domain, hosting everything.

They. Don’t. Care.

They took down services by trying things that aren’t possible on their platform (DMARC for subdomain). Totally unacceptable. How tf do they not know that they can’t accommodate my request without damaging my infrastructure?! Other providers can do DMARC for subdimains?!? WTF?!?!

If they’re your provider and you’re in trouble, contact Newfold Digital support first. That’s their parents company. They tend to route you better than Bluehost does. Shit Bluehost chat support has been broken for like 3 months lmao.

Setup a VPN on a VPS. Use traefik and authelia. Authelia will be your authentication portal and traefik will tunnel the traffic from the auth portal to configd locations within the VPN. Get your home network on that VPN.

Choose VPS provider based on geographic location.

Sucuri?

Akamai?

Kinda depends on what’s going on, price point, etc. is this for DDOS purposes?

You do not need a CDN, but you have users. So, is this for like, a Plex server, serving friends in a similar geographic region?

What’s the use case? That will greatly help us answer.

Photopea

You trust Microsoft?

It will depend on “how duplicate” they are.

I’d use a file renamer that uses id3 tags, which will help find duplicates. It’ll ask you to rename/skip/delete dupes.

There are probably better methods tho 🤷‍♂️