[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

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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Allen Beddingfield
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