I will probably need a larger VPS for my @cloudron instance shortly. Have been happy with Netcup and have no real plans to move elsewhere. But this is a good time to ask for suggestions.
Right, I’m back to focussing on Domain* now that another round of dev is complete on Kitten** and, two years after I originally asked the question: does anyone know of a comparable service to Hetzner Cloud (API, affordable, very quick server setup, VPS) that supports CoreOS?
I still can’t find any. And my attempts to get Hetzner to support it have failed (mostly due to lack of interest on Fedora’s side) 🤷♂️
Setting up a server and then installing CoreOS is out of the question. Small Web sites have to be set up in under a minute.
Must be affordable. We need to be sustainable while not charging more than €10/mo.)
EU-based.
Right now, it seems I’ll have to go with Ubuntu although I really don’t want to as I want the rpm-ostree auto-updates in CoreOS to make the sites zero admin as possible.)
Looks like Vultr has it but it’s too expensive. We’d have to charge at least €25/mo instead of ~€10/mo for a Small Web site with Hetzner to make the same ~€5/mo to try and make Small Technology Foundation sustainable.
And I really want Small Web sites to be affordable so folks can experiment and play with them.
A capable colleague passed on a request from their client. They want to know if the VM disks are encrypted at rest, if the keys are rotated periodically, and if there's a key retention procedure in place. Ironically, the client's VPS runs on Ubuntu 18.04, which has been out of updates for a year, and despite numerous notifications to upgrade, they believe it can wait. 😄
Uploading images is killing my #mastodon self-hosted instance at the moment. Looks like it's because whenever an image is uploaded, thousands of servers then come to request it. I don't have any edge caching, so that's tons of requests to my origin.
My origin is a server in my office, exposed to the internet via a TCP reverse proxy on a #vps and a #Tailscale#VPN connection. And it looks like Tailscale is falling back to #DERP.
I've been thinking for a long time on setting up a VPS to self host some services but lack of time and energy to do it properly (as this post describes) is blocking me.
Yet, I'm also more inclined to share the load in a coop fashion so I may never do it, or do it just for learning and never go to "production".
Da ich mich schon länger nicht mehr mit dem Thema befasst habe, frage ich einfach mal das #Fediverse: Wenn man auf der Suche nach einem wirklich günstigen, kleinen #VPS ist, welchen Anbieter möchte man denn da aktuell empfehlen?
Man, it's crazy how much less I/O is my new Mastodon instance VPS doing than the old one was 😲 I think it was choking in that 2 GB of RAM, with Elastic also eating too much and everything else was swapping… now with 8 GB it has space for everything.
I moved the Mastodon instance to Netcup as a test, I'll see how it behaves - if it's slower, I'll move it back, but if it's fast enough then I'll keep it and it will be half the price of the current one (~€6 vs €12) 💶
It might actually be faster - the CPU is slower at single-core, but there are 6 cores, there's way more RAM (8 vs 2) and a faster SSD. It does feel noticeably snappier, I think - I guess it suffocating in that 2 GB with an Elastic service…
[3/3] I haven't really been expecting this, I planned to just move to Ubuntu 22.04 now on the old VPS and maybe experiment with Netcup later, but given that there's such a massive difference in speed (esp. disk) vs. CoinHost/Solarcom, plus more cores and RAM and way more disk space for less money… I've decided to move at least my Bluesky stuff there ASAP, and maybe everything else a bit later.
Hi Schwarmintelligenz, ich bräuchte mal euer geballtes Fachwissen.
Folgendes ist gegeben:
Domain ist bei Anbieter A
VPS ist bei selben Anbieter A gemietet und die Domain zeigt auf diesen VPS
Folgendes "Problem" soll gelöst werden: Auf dem VPS soll kein Mailserver installiert werden, trotzdem sollen aber für bzw. über die Domain Mails verschickt werden. Zum Bleistift für Registrierungsmails im Forum, Mails bei vorliegenden Antworten u.s.w.
Mein erster Gedanke war, für die Mails und der Domain mailbox.org verwenden. Allerdings funktioniert so ja nur der Empfang, allerdings kein Versand, da ja kein nutzbarer SMTP für die Domain verfügbar ist.
Zweiter Gedanke ist, bei demselben Anbieter ein kleines Webhosting Paket, das Mails beinhaltet, mieten und darüber dann die Mails verschicken.
Habt ihr andere/bessere Ideen oder Gedanken? Immer raus damit. 😉
Ponad 3 lata to może nie jest jakiś wielki wynik, ale jednak utrzymanie takiej maszyny bez jednego włamania, bez restartu, to chyba można uznać za drobny sukces? 4 aplikacje ERP firmy RC-SOFT, działające ciągle dla kilkunastu użytkowników, i serwer nawet się nie zająknął. W przyszłym tygodniu przenoszę dane na inną maszynę, aby kolejne 5 lat działało bez awarii. #Linux#VPS#Python#Adminstracja#DevOPS
I've taken out a VPS from Ionos (formerly 1and1). It has 1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 10GB SSD, unlimited traffic, root access, and a choice of distros, including Debian, Ubuntu & CentOS. Plesk is also offered free, but, I've not used it.
All for the ridiculously cheap price of £1 (£1.20 incl. VAT) per month. At this price it would be rude not to test it, which is what I'm doing.
The spec is limited, but, I can think of hundreds of uses at this price point.
@fitheach Given the #vps hashtag, I assume you are running on the cloud? How is your home internet? Would an SBC be feasible to self-host? Something with 4 cores and ~4GB of RAM could be less than a $75 USD one-time investment and might give you better performance.