[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

According to them, hardware failure.
I had backups, so no data lost.
Allen B.

On 12/17/18 9:46 AM, Simba via Ale wrote:
> Uh huh, and can you offer any more detail about how your VMs were lost?
> Was it user error?
> 
> Being able to load your own ISO is a nice feature, and one that Digital
> Ocean recently started to offer. Personally I don't find it extremely
> useful, since I only use Debian.
> 
> Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
> https://keybase.io/simbalion
> 
> "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
> 
> On 12/17/18 10:38 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
>> 2-3 years ago, if I remember correctly.
>> The major selling factor for me with Vultr is the ability to load my own
>> OS.  Digital Ocean doesn't support openSUSE (or didn't the last time I
>> checked), and I can just load it from ISO on Vultr.
>>
>> Allen B.
>>
>> On 12/17/18 9:35 AM, Simba via Ale wrote:
>>> When was that? I've been using them since 2013 and I've never
>>> experienced more professional treatment from a low cost tech service.
>>> I run dozens of servers and have had zero issues. Performance is
>>> consistent and fast.
>>>
>>> And you dont pay more for less. That's what AWS and GCP are. Vultr and
>>> D.O. are basically the same in terms of price.
>>>
>>> On December 17, 2018 10:32:16 AM EST, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale"
>>> <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>      After Digital Ocean lost two of my VMs, and all they could says was
>>>      "sorry, here's some account credits", I lost faith in them and
>>> moved to
>>>      Vultr.
>>>      Either way, I keep my own backups, because I don't trust anyone
>>> else to
>>>      do it.
>>>
>>>      Allen B.
>>>
>>>      On 12/17/18 9:20 AM, Simba wrote:
>>>
>>>          Vultr is fine for hobby stuff but they don't seem professional
>>>          and if
>>>          yer project is for business I would recommend Digital Ocean
>>> instead.
>>>
>>>
>>>          On December 17, 2018 9:18:03 AM EST, "Beddingfield, Allen via
>>> Ale"
>>>          <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>          I highly recommend Vultr. Never had an issue, and they are one
>>>          of the
>>>          few that will allow you to upload your own ISO and interactively
>>>          install
>>>          the OS. If you don't want to do that, you can use one of their
>>>          images.
>>>
>>>          I use Vultr for VM hosting, Enom for DNS, and I have a paid
>>>          account with
>>>          ProtonMail for e-mail (got tired of trying to run my own mail
>>>          server).
>>>
>>>          All have been good experiences.
>>>          Allen B.
>>>
>>>          On 12/17/18 6:53 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>>
>>>          Hey all, I need to move into this century. After almost 20 years
>>>          with
>>>          the same shared host, the tech support that has been farmed out
>>>          to keeps
>>>          making the service useless.
>>>
>>>          My needs are pretty simple, a few web pages. In theory I'll grow
>>>          to PHP
>>>          7 and MySQL in the back end, but right now I need to write web
>>>          pages and
>>>          scp them up to the host. I have some time to move things over,
>>>          thus time
>>>          to learn something if necessary. I do not want to run a the
>>>          server in my
>>>          house.
>>>
>>>          Is it time to move to something like Digital Ocean droplets, or
>>>          AWS?
>>>          Long term it looks like DO costs more and you get less, but I
>>>          just don't
>>>          know yet.
>>>
>>>          Thoughts and recommendations?
>>>
>>>          Leam
>>>         
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