Comment by π pista
Re: "Any tips? Iβm looking for a VPS to run a Gemini server...."
It's Germany. What do you expect?
Aug 28 Β· 7 weeks ago
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π stack Β· Aug 28 at 15:38:
Oracle actually sounds like good now, after dicking around with crazy no-name nonsense. But when I tried to open an account, I got:
This site is experiencing technical difficulty. We are aware of the issue and are working as quickly as possible to correct the issue. ...
Not very promising.
π norayr Β· Aug 28 at 20:30:
i am a big fan of hosting at home. the only thing you need that i don't know if you can get, is a real ip.
if your isp is able to get you static real ip, then use whatever you have around: old computer, or a cheap 4gb pine64 risc-v board.
then you don't have to pay monthly fee to the hosting provider.
you already pay for the internet, some would require negligeble increase it price.
when bbs was very new, someone wrote about $80 10tb hdds on ebay. you can have lots of space for personal drive. i would not even use next cloud etc, i would just mount a remote nfs share via wireguard ip.
the disadvantage is: if you have power outage your server won't work. that's fine.
if your ips won't provide you a real static ip: use yggdrasil. and perhaps normal mainstream internet dns.
that would give an incentive to those who don't have yggdrasil to use it.
π flipperzero Β· Aug 28 at 22:19:
@stack are you sure you're looking right? 'cause when I went to contabo's front page right now, I found this after selecting US region and keeping euro currency in place.
for futher info, when I clicked the lowest on the sales portal, this upsell page lists that lowest as being 4 euro.
π flipperzero Β· Aug 28 at 22:22:
@eko @mimas2AC if you can find a good domain maybe like at ddns or namecheap that's affordable for you, go for it, it's very easy to set up. NGL to y'all - when I started hashnix, i was a COMPLETE novice!! I didn't know WTF I was doing! Still trying to figure my way through ehehe. So far, I'm doing pretty okay, hmm? Trust yourself, study up, and navigate carefully and safely, keep on your toes with all this and learn from everything you run into keeping notes on all this. Ya got this!
π norayr Β· Aug 28 at 23:24:
aaand here is a muc about home hosting: xmpp:hbsc@muc.lurk.org?join
π stack Β· Aug 29 at 00:19:
That link shows 7.95 for me, +2.80 us east.
I'm done, signed up for AWS
It is free for a year an under $2.oo after for 2 cores 1gb ram and 20gb drive
Or something like it. I could spin up a couple more arm instances for free but eh lazy
π jsreed5 Β· Aug 29 at 00:58:
@stack If you're ever curious, I can share some information on how my services are set up in AWS. It's not the most efficient, and I'm sure I could do it for cheaper, but it works for me.
π norayr Β· Aug 29 at 01:30:
i think for gemini and smolnet it suits more to serve from
even very weak one.
π stack Β· Aug 29 at 03:54:
@jsreed5, yes, i would love to see whatever you are comfortable sharing. Thanks.
So far I got an instance up and can ssh and compule stuff. Trying to figure out which server is small, minimalist and has cgi.
If you want more privacy email me at ctrl-c.club
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Any tips? Iβm looking for a VPS to run a Gemini server. What kind of software requirements should a VPS have to make sure itβll actually work? And what are the usual keywords I should keep an eye out for? Some concrete suggestions for a VPS provider? Thanks a lot!
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