Well, let's start this funny discussion about 3D printing.

Right now there are 2 types of 3D printer:

• 3D printer based on PLA-ABS-OtherStuff, where an extruder melt and place the material
  
• 3D printer based on resin, where a LCD screen uses its light to make the resin react on specific zones and so on
  

Both these types uses a special process called "Slicing" that takes as input a 3D model and outputs a set of instruction to "print" your model layer per layer for the extruder/LCD monitor.

You can 3D print almost everything: mechanical parts (using a polycarbonate), figures, cooking tools, furnitures and so on, there isn't a real limit, just your imagination.

There are a lot of chinese rip-off printers, there is the original Prusa, there are small and large printer. We can say that you can find for sure something suited for your needs.

So, are you going to own a 3D printer?
Do you have any sort of artistic skill to create your own models or are you going to use £D gallery such as Thingverse?

For example, I am only able to create CAD models: I can create mechanical parts or something similar because I have used CAD for some time now. Creating figures is almost impossible for me.

Hello All!

So over the past week I have been working on an app for my business and I finally have it to a point where I can show off the interface mockups. With this project, I really wanted to create a project that showed off my ability with UI/UX design, so I could better market this set of my skillset. This project started off as wireframes and has now progressed to this point of mockups using Adobe Prior to moving this project to Xcode to begin taking this from design to SwiftUI.

The goal of this project is integrate the app into my website powered by Wordpress, where using RestAPI, GraphQL and other technologies to integrate posts, user accounts, eCommerce and remote notifications. As this project progresses, I hope to start a fork to integrate TBCMS into this app where when my CMS is completed I can use that system to continue to power and feed data into my app. I would love to hear feedback on this UI design, I tried to use elements from my current web design, so hopefully there is continuity and things translate!

Hello there, Hope everyone is doing good! 

So, I noticed that forum has been a little inactive for a while and even i was inactive for a month, So decided to post this threads. 

If you are hosting or have hosted game servers in past what is or what was the biggest issue you have faced till now.

I would give my side of the story as well

I used to used CSGO Servers in 2018-2019 one was 5v5 and one was Deathmatch, My servers ran really smoothly and had no performance issues at all and i had really strict rules so people always liked my server. Even though after restarting my server usually went full in few seconds. In competition many players opened up their servers and started DDOSING my server like every minute, but it didn't affected my player count at all. I used many measures to block off many attacks but could not do anything for the paid booters they used. I received almost like 15GB/s DDOS every 10 minutes. (Thats what my ISP recorded not sure if thats true) but it could be after looking what booter they were using.) So eventually had to close it down my servers due to DDOS because  it was affecting the ISP alot. 

Did you have face any issues in past i would love to hear your story

Regards,
sAmI

Hello all, a while ago we all got onto the topic of forum software and I fell down a rabbit hole trying to learn more about forum softwares that are free and easily accessible to users within the Post4VPS community. I started down the path of FlaskBB, but some of the dependencies are out of date and no longer working, so I found Flarum. Flarum is an easy to install open source forum software installed through Composer. This is thread is going to be a review and overview of the software, while highlighting some of the features found through extensions. Flarum is a beta software, so there are a few bugs that need to be worked out, but I think for what it is, the software is solid and could be a future platform for Post4VPS or those of you with forums of your own.

The interface:
The interface for Flarum is very sleek and minimalistic, while allowing some great extensions to further customize your forum. The main forum page functions much like a timeline and instead of having individual sub-forums, threads are separated out by tags. Allowing for users to subscribe to specific tags and the back end allows for administrators to easily create new tags and set the rules and restrictions of such tags to have moderator and administrator level permissions. This could be used for "Solved, Closed, or Giveaway" tags.




This screenshot is of the default forum interface, with free easy to install extensions you will be able to break this page up into forums and sub-forums. Some other extensions I have found that would give us some of the great features we have come to know on Post4VPS would allow an admin to 1) set up a currency per post and 2) create private discussions, but also some extensions would add support for SSO between Flarum and Wordpress.

Admin Panel:
The admin panel is very intuitive and I learned how to use it quickly. With this software still in beta, there are items that still could be worked on, such as the theme customization and some of the admin tools like creating tags (categories) and some of the moderation tools could be implemented in the backend, but it is not horrible all in all. Extensions are installed in SSH using composer so that takes out some of the guess work and everything is neatly organized into categories such as features, themes and other extensions. With this being built on Composer and Laravel everything is minimized and super speedy which is a great feature.

Final thoughts:
Out of the box, this is not a total replacement for MyBB and some of the other forum software, as you need to add in quite a bit of the extensions to get things to a manageable state, but it took me about 4 hours to full get the forum setup in a development state where I could play and test the software. As this platform continues to be developed, I could see it being a big contender in the forum software market especially as more and more developers begin creating for Flarum. I am going to continue to play with this as I am taking about making my CMS in Composer, so this is a great test to see how something like this could work if I change my development path, as my goal is to create something lightweight and easily deployable.

If you are interested in learning more please feel free to comment and I will make sure to answer what questions I can.

Short Introduction

I got VPS 13 at 61st giveaway in October. This VPS provider is Limitless Hosting (https://limitlesshost.net) that's why I give it a try to grab a VPS from Limitless Hosting. And I got it! I have used the VPS for 4 months and it's going pretty well. This VPS located in Finland, Europe. While using it I never get any kind of really massive lag, all perfectly runs well.

Specifications and Benchmark

Benchmark below is using @sohamb03 script.
Specs

Quote:System Info
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Processor       : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
CPU Cores       : 2 @ 3593.248 MHz
Memory          : 1987 MiB
Swap            : 1987 MiB
Uptime          : 20 days, 18:37
OS              : Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Arch            : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel          : 5.4.0-60-generic
Hostname        : Censored

This VPS uses AMD Ryzen processor. I really don't see providers use AMD Ryzen in their VPS. They usually use Intel Xeon instead. This is new and pretty interesting to see how it works.

Internet Speed

Quote:Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is hehe

Location                Provider        Speed
--------                --------        -----
CDN                     Cachefly        108MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US          @sohamb03      14.3MB/s
Dallas, TX, US          Softlayer       5.13MB/s
San Jose, CA, US        Softlayer       5.13MB/s
Washington, DC, US      Leaseweb        4.51MB/s
Sao Paulo, Brazil       Softlayer       4.38MB/s
Singapore               Softlayer       4.68MB/s
Taiwan                  Hinet           2.57MB/s
Tokyo, Japan            Linode          2.05MB/s
Nuremberg, Germany      Hetzner         12.8MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands  id3.net         10.3MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands    Leaseweb        10.6MB/s
Milan, Italy            Softlayer       15.9MB/s
Sydney, AU              Future Hosting  228KB/s

Well, I cannot complain about their internet speed. Not so fantastic but enough for me. For the one from Future Hosting, it probably their server instead of this VPS connection. When using this VPS, I, which located near Singapore, can quickly load my website without Cloudflare at ~1 second on the first time visit.

Disk Speed

Quote:Buffered Sequential Write Speed 
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I/O (1st run)   : 604 MB/s
I/O (2nd run)   : 866 MB/s
I/O (3rd run)   : 868 MB/s
Average I/O     : 779.333 MB/s

Disk speed is beyond expectation. I cannot complain this kind of speed. Based on Limitless Hosting's VPS plan, the VPS is equipped with NVME SSD which is the fastest disk drive (AFAIK).

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Benchmark below is using bench.monster script (thanks to @Lampard for providing this script).

Specs

Quote:---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 OS           : Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 5.4.0-65-generic
 CPU Model    : AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
 CPU Cores    : 2 @ 3593.248 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.08, 0.02, 0.00
 Total Space  : 21G (12G ~57% used)
 Total RAM    : 1987 MB (355 MB + 1050 MB Buff in use)
 Total SWAP   : 1987 MB (146 MB in use)
 Uptime       : 5 days 10:32 (benchmark taken at different time to previous benchmark)
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 ASN & ISP    : AS24940, Hetzner Online GmbH
 Organization : 
 Location     : Helsinki, Finland / FI
 Region       : Uusimaa
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CPU Benchmark

Quote:Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 5490  (EXCELLENT)
   Multi Core : 9567

I'm not a computer geek that know what score is high but since it says excellent then it's excellent .

IO Speed

Quote: IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     : 135 MB/s
   sha256     : 266 MB/s
   md5sum     : 600 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 3140.3 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 8021.3 MB/s

 Disk Speed:
   1st run    : 377 MB/s
   2nd run    : 868 MB/s
   3rd run    : 881 MB/s
   -----------------------
   Average    : 708.7 MB/s

RAM speed is very awesome! Disk speed somehow at 1st run it always run "slow" then on 2nd and 3rd run it's in its maximum speed. Probably need to "start the machine" first?

Another Speedtest!

Quote: Global Speedtest.net

 Location                       Upload           Download         Ping   
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Nearby                         876.36 Mbit/s    84.80 Mbit/s     5.274 ms
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 USA, New York (Optimum)        10.36 Mbit/s     46.66 Mbit/s     98.700 ms
 USA, Chicago (Windstream)      165.94 Mbit/s    47.90 Mbit/s    110.675 ms
 USA, Dallas (Frontier)         133.45 Mbit/s    36.04 Mbit/s    144.566 ms
 USA, Miami (Frontier)          22.45 Mbit/s     22.61 Mbit/s    141.490 ms
 USA, Los Angeles (Windstream)  121.94 Mbit/s    38.89 Mbit/s    162.196 ms
 UK, London (toob Ltd)          103.48 Mbit/s    130.53 Mbit/s    34.563 ms
 France, Lyon (SFR)             315.96 Mbit/s    122.23 Mbit/s    45.006 ms
 Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET)      431.33 Mbit/s    153.04 Mbit/s    30.837 ms
 Spain, Madrid (MasMovil)       322.56 Mbit/s    137.84 Mbit/s    46.633 ms
 Italy, Rome (Unidata)          152.58 Mbit/s    105.28 Mbit/s    65.124 ms
 Russia, Moscow (Rostelecom)    138.27 Mbit/s    175.21 Mbit/s    28.289 ms
 Israel, Haifa (013Netvision)   234.98 Mbit/s    103.36 Mbit/s    74.785 ms
 India, New Delhi (GIGATEL)     130.77 Mbit/s    28.71 Mbit/s    150.037 ms
 Singapore (FirstMedia)         38.54 Mbit/s     20.66 Mbit/s    204.278 ms
 Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther)     41.55 Mbit/s     22.35 Mbit/s    245.728 ms
 Australia, Sydney (Optus)      3.22 Mbit/s      24.43 Mbit/s    312.531 ms
 RSA, Randburg (Cool Ideas)     90.89 Mbit/s     119.95 Mbit/s   193.019 ms
 Brazil, Sao Paulo (Criare)     66.82 Mbit/s     18.58 Mbit/s    208.472 ms
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Upload speed is awesome in many location but download speed is a little bit questionable. I prefer faster upload speed than download since it's a server tho. We're serving not consuming data. Therefore will need more speed in upload instead.

Checkout another benchmark (that I don't know what it is) here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16044438

My Experience with VPS 13

In short, it's an awesome VPS.

I got this VPS back in October 2020. Four months have passed with more than 80 posts posted to keep this VPS alive. When I decide to get this VPS, my plan is to have a working website and can run my Discord bot. So then I think, "Hmm ..., VPS with 2GB RAM should be enough. This VPS 13 met that requirement and have a control panel."

Turns out, I also need a mail server. Yandex Mail doesn't work as expected that all of my email marked as spam by their system. That's sucks.
I really need a working mail server since my website should send mail to the user daily. Well some sort like a notification if they have miss something.

When I got the VPS, I reinstalled the OS because I want to start from scratch. The panel is intuitive, just like another Virtualizator panel. It's easy to use for a person with SolusVM experience before. The reinstalling phase is also easier but doesn't give so much room for configuration during installation since Virtualizator control all of them, and it's a KVM not a Xen HVM. Not a big deal! I can leave the VPS for another work while it's working on it.

After installation done, I decide to try for VestaCP alternative but all of them are suck (or I am the one that don't understand? HAHA). So then I reinstall the OS again and install Cyberpanel instead. All work very smoothly without error. I haven't reinstall the OS since that time.

Remember about the mail server I talked before? I installed them with help of Cyberpanel. The panel install it without issue when I request the panel to do so. Then I configured my DNS to match the record by Cyberpanel and now it's working.
One thing to done about this mail server is none of the receivers' mail server complain the mail received is a spam (not like Yandex before). AFAIK this only can happen if the sender's server IP address is green and high reputation. It's like from D+7 I got this VPS and the IP is already have high reputation.

What does this high reputation means then?
It means that Limitless Hosting really take care their business carefully and keep their IP address and business clear from hacker or something like that. I highly recommend this company.

What's next?
Limitless Hosting currently only have VPS that is located in the Europe. If they have one in Singapore or Australia, I might pick one and move to them as a paid user instead.

I hope someday Limitless Hosting will cover more location and be bigger than what they're right now. We also know that the owner of Limitless Hosting is the expert in this field (probably that's why it's already have high reputation when I got this VPS).

Conclusion

Well, I think I need to conclude anything here. As you read the review, you already know that the VPS is fast and the provider is fantastic. It's worth it to be paid users of Limitless Hosting. I may be one when they start provide Singapore or Australia location.

If you're interested to grab one, checkout their plan here. You can start now

Hello all beloved members. 
I am starting this tread because it's really need of this generation. These two brands are captured big market in Asia. Also include Realme series and Reno series in our discussion. 
Both phones are looks like fight each other to take over market. 
Prices are almost same with same specs.
Product launching is also subsequent and no one like to stand behind in launching new product. 
Capture market of Xiaomi and Huawei in price tags and spare parts. 

We do like to see your personal experience and comparison with other brands except  Samsung/Sony/1+/Infinix.

Hello everyone i have a question about the network shared folders.
so there is an option on any windows to make a shared folder on local network but the thing is i want to make a several shared folders and lock them with different passwords.
for example the shared folders on my local network is
folder 1
folder 2
folder 3
folder 4
and i want each of them to have a different password. i was able to make the 4 folders with the same password with creating a user and accessing it with username and password but i want a different password to every folder. does anyone knows if it is possible or there is a way to do it? i have looked everywhere in tutorials but none of them gave me the answer i  wanted...
every help would be appreciated

It's with great regret that we have to inform the Holders of VPS 5 and members of Post4VPS that the sponsorship of VPS 5 has come to an end. The two VPSs need to be vacated by 20 February.

We wish to thank @Manal for the very long duration of the sponsorship, and hope that we will still be seeing him around at the Forum.  His quality contributions to discussions as well as excellent support of VPS 5 will always be much appreciated.

Wishing you everything of the best for Shadowhosting's future Manal.

As the title says. How does SARS-CoV-2 affect your current job situation? Or how did it affect your previous job situation?


I'll start with my experience.

I work for a state authority. I still have my job that I have since 2016. We didn't have any short-time work periods. Nobody was laid off so far. Just the usual stuff like work contracts that expired or people that retired due to age.

In terms of work... for me and for the whole IT depatment it has increased. A lot of stress due to all the home office users and lack of devices and other resources to make everything possible as quick as possible. Although our educational branch has been basically shutdown during the first lockdown (March 2020 - August 2020) the work load has no really decreased. It feels like even more. Sometimes goes from 0 t 100 in a few hours and suddenly everyone acts super crazy about going into home office and etc. TL;DR: we have more than enough work to stay employed for a long time. Same stuff in the current lockdown that is supposed to end on the 14th Feb but most likely will be extended again.

In all the time so far I only had a single home office day in which I spent working even more than I would usually when I would be at my office... I won't get started with overtime. Have enough hours left to take off a week. Already did take days of to reduce it as I had to much overtime and that gets your issues with HR. I ended the year 2020 with 13 free vacation days left which I have planned into Jan 2021 and March 2021.

However I'm happy I'm able to keep my position and receive my full pay. Actually we even got a small bonus last year for our outstanding work during the first lockdown.

When starting your small business, portfolio, or forum web traffic is vital to get your name and services out into the world on the digital front. Search Engine Optimization or SEO will help make your website, content and products friendlier for search engines to parse and feature on their result pages. In this Tips from a SBO, we will be focusing on how to optimize your website for search engines to allow for you to drive more traffic organically.

What is SEO?
SEO allows for clearer navigation of your website, so when Search Engines crawl the web for results your website is optimized for the engine to easily pull content and presents it for users to visit. The search engines typically check your site for relevancy, cross device support, quality content, user experience, speed, linking and meta tags just to name a few. These items when used correctly will boost your SEO Score making your listing much easier to find when doing your Google Search.

1. Relevancy – Having your content being relevant to your industry or the queries you are trying to get hits on build your relevancy. With my business as an example, when you search for Graphic Design in Lawrence, Kansas you will see all of the design agencies in the market, however mine is towards the bottom of the list due to the maturity and relevancy of my content, amongst other factors.
   
2. Cross Device Compatibility – Today, you need to have your website optimized for a wide range of devices. Most consumers will view your website on their mobile device or tablet and if the site does not function well they will have a hard time returning for future business. Many content management systems like WordPress feature and come pre-stocked with responsive themes that will appeal on any device.
   
3. Quality Content – Quality content is gauged on how well you are writing for your audience. Most quality content is judged based on if you are writing for people vs. search engines and the more quality content you produce for your audience, the higher your SEO score will rank!
   
4. Authority – This can easily be summed up on the credibility of your content with your users and the field you are publishing content in. For example, Tyler Bell Design Co has more authority when it comes to small business tips, eCommerce, and Graphic Design while we have no business talking about how to repair your ’97 Toyota Camry.
   
5. User Experience – This section tracks with how easy your site is to navigate for a user. Sites with a high user experience score have easy to navigate sites with minimal clutter that distracts the user from your primary purpose.
   
6. Speed – Browsing speed is a huge deal when trying to serve content to your audience. Having a slow website will drive traffic away from your site and your audience will begin looking for content in other authorities. Keep plugins, css, images, and fonts minified and use a backup CDN service such as CloudFlare to cache your site keeping things as speedy as possible!
   
7. Linking – Having a clear and easy site is important, but it’s also very important to continue keeping your audience in your site, with providing links to more articles which keep them on your site longer. Having your audience interact with your site for longer periods of time helps sell products on the eCommerce front, but can also help with generating more revenue from advertisers.
   
8. Meta Tags – Clear and concise meta information helps your user’s weed out information in a search query. They don’t have any major effects on your SEO score, but they help keep your site and content clean while on the search engine. Most CMS including WordPress provide meta tagging information natively!
   
9. Tagging Images – Tagging your images is of vital importance! Search Engines cannot see your images, but they can parse the data of your alt text making it more likely for them to pop your site and business with properly attributed and tagged images. Note: Many people over look this item when curating content for their website, so stand out with a quality image description!
   

Other great suggestions
The tips above will help you build a SEO-friendly brand, but also doing small things like allowing commenting on your posts and having ‘Evergreen Content’ (content that will stand the test of time and can be used as a reference) help build meaningful and engaging communities that will build your audience and website traffic.
Social Media is also a great tool when use as a tool! It can be fun to scroll through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but these platform can also help you to build your brand and push new audiences to your website which will drive up your traffic, eCommerce and ad revenue!

SEO Faux Pas
There are some items that will not help you build your SEO. These items often deter new audience members from wanting to join your community. These items include annoying ads littered over your site, farming links that have little to no authority to just get clicks on your site and abusing tags to fluff up your content. Make your content meaningful and easy to engage with!

Hopefully this guide is helpful for those who read it! There are a lot of great tools on the web that can help you optimize your website to boost your SEO score especially for CMSs like Wordpress and some forum softwares. I am not very versed in MyBB, but I do know that vBulletin has some great plugins for those that use that platform.