Machine Retirement

HcKy

Was wondering if anyone actually knew how HTB retires a machine? I thought they were retired oldest first but Tentacle is replacing Compromised on Saturday so now I'm not sure.

TazWake

It is generally the oldest but not always - Rope2 was active for about 6 months while other boxes got retired.

As far as I can see, it is down to the balance of boxes between OSes etc. It is nearly always one of the four oldest boxes to go.

If you check https://www.hackthebox.eu/home/machines/submissions you can see which ones have been accepted so you can at least ball-park guess the next box to retire.

The accepted list has an easy, insane and medium box as accepted, so at a guess, I'd go for Worker being the next to retire.

However - and this is a huge caveat - it is also driven by a range of operational reasons within HTB, so it really is guess work and a magic-8 ball is probably as accurate as anything I'd suggest.

HcKy

Makes sense. I assume they want to keep the difficulty of machines somewhat wide since having mostly hard/insane machines would most likely put new-free users off from the whole thing due to frustration.

I do like the idea of them just asking a magic 8 ball important questions though.

TazWake

I feel like my entire life revolves around magic 8 ball decisions...

acidbat

I sent Shaun a message and its based on the following metrics:

Machine Retirement:

• Age of the Machine
• Difficulty
• Ratings
• Balance between Linux and Windows

A mixture of all the above

TazWake

So magic 8 ball then

acidbat

Type your comment> @TazWake said:

So magic 8 ball then

lol yup

HcKy

"Signs point to yes"