[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Leam Hall]

Let's get back to technical details, shall we?

Interesting that Vultr offers a discount for IPv6 only servers.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:51 AM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > Stop being a shill.
>
> Stop being a liar!! You think I'm kidding?
>
> Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
> https://keybase.io/simbalion
>
> "you take the death right out of me"
>
> On 12/17/18 11:31 AM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> > Stop being a shill.  I never said I get status reports, I just get
> > ignored.  Anywhere else sends me an automated reply to the abuse report.
> >  DO does not.  At minimum I *AM* entitled to the automated reply
> > indicating that my report made it into their system.
> >
> > On 2018-12-17 08:29, Simba via Ale wrote:
> >>> 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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