Introduction
I'm not a VPS 1 Holder, however thought to check it out and provide our members with a brief overview of the VPS.  In summary it is not a bad VPS at all.  Particulatly when one compares it with VPS 9 that I'm used to. From the moment I started to work with VPS 1 in its Virtualizor Panel, I realized that Host4Fun is keeping the panel up to date - the templates were up to date.  What is attractive about this VPS is of course the User Panel that the VPS Holder gets so one can reinstall the OS if one needs to do that.  One can also boot and reboot the VPS, check out disk and bandwidth use but not much more than that.  VPS 1 also comes with VNC access.  Location of the VPS is France.

VPS Sponsor
Post4vps is indebted to Host4Fun for the very long duration it has supported us.  It has been providing us with six VPSs with very generous specs and a great Admin Panel. Host4Fun offers cheap and budget web hosting and VPS services from 25+ Global Locations and 36+ Datacenters.

VPS 1 Plan Specifications
vCPU: 1
Disk Space: 100 GB
RAM: 1 GB RAM
IP Addresses: 1x IPv4
Virtualization: KVM
Monthly Traffic: 1 TB
Location:  Roubaix, France
Control Panel: Virtualizor
Connection: 1 GBit/s
Games servers: Allowed
Provided by: Host4Fun
Terms: TOS
Requirements: Backlinks to Host4Fun and Post4VPS are required when a Website is hosted. And a sig backlink

Network, Performance & Reliability
From feedback from previous VPS holders, performance and reliability of VPS 1 is very good.  We very rarely have needed to submit any tickets except in the case of using VPS 1 as a Games Server.  Although Host4Fun says it's OK to use VPS 1 for a Games Server, members have experienced repetitive Firewall issues that couldn't be solved by the sponsor.  So regrettably we have had to advise our members not to use VPS 1 as a Games Server.

One of our members also tried VPS 1 for Teamspeak.  And that was not entirely successful either.  So maybe the way Firewall works with Host4Fun it's not an ideal VPS for scripts that require Firewall to be set up to deal with it.

For regular use however, this VPS is great.  I loaded some WordPress sites on it.  And speed is completely acceptable.  Fast by normal standards, just a little less fast than VPS 9.  So I can recommend it for regular use.

System Information
The System Information below was generated by the the Benchmark Test script:


Processor       : Intel® Core™ i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
CPU Cores       : 1 @ 4199.996 MHz
Memory          : 991 MiB
Swap            : 0 MiB
Uptime          : 21:47,

OS              : CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
Hostname        : ******

Here are the speedtest results generated by the Benchmark Test:

Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is 164.***.**.220

Location                Provider        Speed
--------                --------        -----
CDN                     Cachefly        9.22MB/s

Atlanta, GA, US         @sohamb03       14.8MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       2.48MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       2.09MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        3.51MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil       Softlayer       1.86MB/s

Singapore               Softlayer       1.66MB/s
Taiwan                  Hinet           4.30MB/s
Tokyo, Japan            Linode          2.10MB/s

Nuremberg, Germany      Hetzner         6.40MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         12.9MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        10.7MB/s
Milan, Italy            Softlayer       8.81MB/s

Sydney, AU              Future Hosting  233KB/s


Buffered Sequential Write Speed
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I/O (1st run)   : 326 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 380 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 391 MB/s
Average I/O     : 365.667 MB/s

Here is a speed test that was taken yesterday:




Conclusion
As previously mentioned VPS 1 is a very good VPS.  Specs are great for regular straight up and down Websites or blogs.  However, as soon as it gets more involved where the Firewall ports need to be opened up, there may be issues.  So the VPS is not recommended for use as a Games Server or for Teamspeak or similar projects.

Note of Appreciation to Sponsor
We wish to extend a special note of appreciation to Host4Fun for providing our membership with years of continued sponsorship of VPS 1.

So I just get my hand back to Wordpress to redesign my client's website. They usually have a banner that celebrate holidays, so I think I'm going to put that up in a pop up instead. I used Popup Maker, it's awesome and free. I cannot afford to pay USD 35 for a popup maker that specialized in Divi, so I found this and it's free and I'm happy now.

So then, after getting my first popup on air, I get a new problem. This still related to that popup since I setup the popup to not reopen multiple times for the same user. We must have ask user if they agree for us to track them. I found a plugin that do that for us: https://wordpress.org/plugins/complianz-gdpr/

I'm going to have my hand in this plugin soon. What do you guys think? Do you have ever find this plugin or other plugin that does similar things?

• 6x VPS 1 - Host4Fun
  
• 4x VPS 7 - ReadyDedis [USA Locations: Atlanta, NY, Seattle, LA]
  
• 2x VPS 10 - Evolution Host
  
• 1x VPS 12 - HostDare
  

We're aiming at a date of 7th May for announcing the winners.  

For comparing the VPS Specifications, users can check https://post4vps.com/compare/#1,7,10,12

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• Users must read and agree to all terms of the SPONSOR (of the VPS which they want) when they apply.  These can be found on our Plans Page.  
  
• When you apply, please let us know your preferred OS and the Domain you will be using with the VPS.
  

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2. You should have met our minimum requirements to get VPS.
   
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Following members still have missing posts for April.  Gentle reminder.  April only has 30 days.  So tomorrow is the last day.  Looks like @sohamb03 will have to do his marathon run again with bulk quality posts. Since we are running short of quality VPSs his VPS would be much sought after.

VPS Holders with missing posts:
NONE!  Thanks to all the VPS Holders for completing their number of posts!  

As per usual and for those who aren't in the know.  The missing posts rule is strictly enforced by @Dynamo.  Posts have to be made before the end of the last day of the month GMT time.  Failing which the VPS will be powered down.  If you still want to keep the VPS you will have the opportunity to reapply during the Giveaway that immediately follows after the penalty.  Provided you have 100 credit points spare, your Forum account and VPS Holder eligibility are in good standing, and you have applied for the VPS, your VPS will be returned to you in the same condition as it was before it was powered down.  Please note that should you choose to "dump" the VPS (without prior notification) and then return in a few months or years time and apply for a VPS, this will still be remembered and the penalty will still apply.

I have been a long-time user of Google Chrome and I have noticed slowness and a bit of freezing for a while now. It has happened in Windows 7 and It still happens in Windows 10. It doesn't freeze anymore but slowness is still there. Now You get Mircosoft Edge long with Windows 10 and I noticed it's faster and works pretty well. It's definitely by miles improved over old Internet Explorer. Also, they have plugins and pretty must most of the stuff you have in the Chrome app store.

Anyone here uses MS Edge for a while? How's your experience?

Sad news indeed.  Our much treasured VPS 14 from Bladenode has been cancelled with effect of the end of April.  Bladenode is experiencing high demand and needs the space.  @phoenixwolfowever says that should an opportunity arise in future, that he may be able to provide us with a VPS again.  This is good news indeed.

We would like to extend our warm appreciation to Bladenode and to Phoenix for the excellent VPS we were able to use for a few months.  We also wish to thank him for his excellent support during that period of time.  

Wishing Bladenode everything of the best.  And a speedy return in future, if and when an opportunity presents itself again.  Hopefully we will still see you in the Forum Phoenix.  Your participation is always appreciated.

I just got to the forum and wanted to introduce myself. For a long time I have been looking for forums related to free web hosting, but the truth is that it is difficult to find any interesting one.

I found this forum in the search engine, and when I saw it I thought: "I think I could learn a lot here and maybe find a good web host as well".

I am very interested in learning, and I hope at some point I can contribute something to this community.

Many regards to everybody.

YEP... if you own a NVIDIA GPU and you use Virtual Machines it is very probably that you meet this error. If not, don't worry I will explain what it mean.

Do you know what is a virtual machine? No?
Well, you can think about as a sandbox, you can run a Operation System inside that sandbox and do whatever you want, like dangerous experiements without damaging your real Operation System. IT PROTECTS YOUR OPERATION SYSTEM, NOT YOU. IF YOU DO SOMETHING DANGEROUS/ILLEGAL INSIDE A VIRTUAL MACHINE... YOU ARE STILL TRACKABLE.

So let's immagine you are running a virtual machine, for this example you have a Linux Machine and you are running a Windows VM, and you want to do a GPU-intensive workload such as gaming (Linux Host that doesn't work well with wine) or video rendering (using specific software such as Premiere PRo).

You will soon discover that you can passthrough your GPU, while installing the NVIDIA drivers or on device manager you will see the "Error 43" and the gpu-device shutdown. What doesn't mean passthrough? Well, you are linking your GPU to the VM so it can use the video card full power.

NVIDIA on the past introduced a check on their CONSUMER products to block this features because they wanted it exclusively for their enterprise cards such as QUADRO.

BUT: Recently NVIDIA announced the enabling of this feature again on our consumer cards on the newest beta drivers!

NVIDIA BLESSING
Should we be happy? I mean this feature was already there and blocked at once on the past... so we are just receiving back what we had.

What do you think?

I know that this news is a bit old, 4 days ago, but I touches me at the core and I wanted to write about it.
If you didn't read it, don't worry I will provide a "offensive-less" summary of what the researchers of Minnesota tried to do.

On 21 April 2021 an email from Greg Kroah-Hartman announced his decision to ban University of Minnesota from the Linux development contributors and the revert their commits (= nullify all their code changes). The researchers tried to intentionally insert bugs in an unauthorised Penetration test to perform an experiement described on one of their scientific article... THEY COULD HAVE AFFECTED YOUR SECURITY. 

These ***** researcher just used the trust of the open source community to just to perform a dangerous experiment to boost their own paper-career. It is disgusting.
We should thanks the numerous reviewers who protect us by inspecting the code.

I will stop here my personal summary because I could use a offensive tone, so I would just append the "polite" email from Greg Kroah-Hartman:


What do you think about it?
The open source community is always friendly and open minded to new and senior contributor, but these reseachers just decided on their own to do something so dangerous that could have been affected our daily usage devices.

I need to change URL of a forum from www. Website to www. website/forum/.  I think I should do it by changing  'bburl'  file /inc/settings.php. But I don't remember if there anything else. Maybe something in Admin control panel too?