[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Alex Carver]

I had to block Digital Ocean at my firewall.  Once a week a random VM in
their collection scans me at a rate approaching a DOS  and at least
three times a week other VMs attempt to relay spam through my mail
server with 20-30 attempts/second for tens of minutes at a time.  They
ignore my emails telling them of the problems.

On 2018-12-17 07:20, Simba via Ale 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?