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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:41AM (#12364639)
I believe Vultr offers FreeBSD (and custom ISO) hosting at about the same price and offers storage servers too. Their documentation and remote console tools leave a lot to be desired though (I wanted to install openSUSE and ended up resorting to manually entering the iPXE commands at a console to get the damn thing installed).
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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by nicolas_t on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:03AM (#12364718)
Their support also leaves a lot to be desired. Had a persistent network problem due to a misconfiguration of their system and it took two weeks of back and forth before they really looked into it.
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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by po1nter on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:22AM (#12364767)
Are Vuktr and DigitalOcean related in any way? their websites look really similar down to the animation that shows you how to create a new droplet/server.
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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by nik736 on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:48AM (#12364853)
No, Vultr is a spin off of choopa. DO and them have nothing to do with each other.
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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by dumbsecreport on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:33AM (#12366074)
No, but they've always ripped off the site like that, either on purpose or not. It was worse when the company just came out.
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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by pilsetnieks on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:03AM (#12366740)
Looking at their DNS setup workflow[1] and API functions[2] I don't see any step where you would have to verify domain ownership - which is this whole thing is about, isn't it?

[1] https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-configure-d...

[2] https://www.vultr.com/api/#dns

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Re:Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import ... by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:36AM (#12366958)
I was providing an example of a host that provides FreeBSD support. To be clear, I don't think Vultr is a good host so I'm not really sure why I mentioned them to be honest...
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