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  • What does the 95% rule mean?

    The bandwidth of stepping stone AG will be calculated with the 95%-rule.The 95%-rule is a common standard.

    Calculation of the 95%-rule

    When you have ordered a bandwidth of 1 Megabit/s and are connected to a 100 Megabit/s line, the Committed Data Rate (CDR) is 1 Megabit/s with a burst rate of 100 Megabit/s. The Committed Data Rate will be invoiced independently of the usage, as this bandwidth is fixed reserved for you. The burst rate of 100 Megabit/s is “best effort” and will be invoiced according to the 95%-rule, which is calculated as follows:

    Die Bandbreite wird alle 5 Minuten gemessen. Damit finden monatlich 8640 Messungen statt.

    Damit dürfen Sie ohne Kostenfolge die vereinbarte Bandbreite 432 Mal pro Monat überschreiten. Mit anderen Worten ausgedrückt: Sie dürfen während 36 Stunden pro Monat die abonnierte Bandbreite ohne Kostenfolge überschreiten.

  • What does "out of range pointer" or "unaligned pointer" mean when booting Debian or Ubuntu guests?

    The option GRUB_TERMINAL=console is missing in the Grub configuration. Please read the manual on repairing Grub in order to eliminate this fault.

  • Can I access my virtual machine through SPICE-Protocol?

    Please follow the manuals for Windows or Linux in the support section on our home page.

  • Which operation systems are supported?

    • Windows 2000/XP/Vista
    • Mac OS X
    • Linux
    • BSDs
    • Solaris
  • How do I create an ed25519 SSH public/private key pair?

    To create ed25519 SSH public/private key pair, you need OpenSSH 6.5 or newer.

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "name.surname@example.com"

    Die Ausgabe von ssh-keygen sieht in etwa wie folgt aus:

    Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
    Enter file in which to save the key (/home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519):
    Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
    Enter same passphrase again:
    Your identification has been saved in /home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519.
    Your public key has been saved in /home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.
    The key fingerprint is:
    SHA256:DpS2gFLsSAfCuoBjgf7UEsQY3lKrDbEpnOn+rIlg+6k name.surname@example.com
    The key's randomart image is:
    +--[ED25519 256]--+
    |+=Bo |
    |=*X=. . |
    |B%+o+ + |
    |O+*o = . |
    |o=o.. o S |
    |o . o |
    |.o . |
    |+ = . |
    |.E+= |
    +----[SHA256]-----+
    RC=0 steppingstone@lale1202:~$ cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub
    ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAID5DuOj3fhVqQpeXTRa2Tf8OXm1OO9AmCKs312770odA name.surname@example.com

  • Which Domain Registrar is recommended by stepping stone Ltd.?

    We recommend amenic ag.

    To let us administer your Domain at amenic ag, please use the following information for the technical contact:
    Amenic ID: 3XKY92, stepping stone Ltd., Michael Eichenberger

  • What is the difference between GB (Gigabyte) and GiB (Gibibyte)?

    The first one mentioned uses decimal (SI) and the second one binary (IEC) unit prefixes. The actual sizes are shown in the table beneath.

    DecimalBinary
    SI unitMeaningIEC unitMeaning
    Kilobyte (KB)1 000 ByteKibibyte (KiB)1 024 Byte
    Megabyte 1 000 000 ByteMebibyte (MiB)1 048 576 Byte
    Gigabyte (GB)1 000 000 000 ByteGibibyte (GiB)1 073 741 824 Byte
    Terabyte (TB)1 000 000 000 000 ByteTebibyte (TiB)1 099 511 627 776 Byte
    Petabyte (PB)1 000 000 000 000 000 BytePebibyte (PiB)1 125 899 906 842 624 Byte
    Exabyte (EB)1 000 000 000 000 000 000 ByteExbibyte (EiB)1 152 921 504 606 846 976 Byte

     

    More information can be found on Wikipedia.

     

     

  • What are the stepping stone Ltd. DNS servers called?

    The stepping stone Ltd. authoritative DNS servers are:

    ns-01.stepping-stone.ch --> 194.176.109.201
    ns-02.stepping-stone.ch --> 194.176.109.252
    ns-03.stepping-stone.ch --> 185.85.124.78
    ns-04.stepping-stone.ch --> 185.85.124.113