[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Simba]

> They ignore my emails telling them of the problems.

No they don't.

More bullshit. Show us proof. I have seen them investigate reports of
malicious activity.

You're not going to get  status reports on your abuse reports to any
hosting provider, because you aren't entitled to them.

Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
https://keybase.io/simbalion

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

On 12/17/18 11:26 AM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> 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?
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