[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

2-3 years ago, if I remember correctly.
The major selling factor for me with Vultr is the ability to load my own 
OS.  Digital Ocean doesn't support openSUSE (or didn't the last time I 
checked), and I can just load it from ISO on Vultr.

Allen B.

On 12/17/18 9:35 AM, Simba via Ale wrote:
> When was that? I've been using them since 2013 and I've never 
> experienced more professional treatment from a low cost tech service. I 
> run dozens of servers and have had zero issues. Performance is 
> consistent and fast.
> 
> And you dont pay more for less. That's what AWS and GCP are. Vultr and 
> D.O. are basically the same in terms of price.
> 
> On December 17, 2018 10:32:16 AM EST, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" 
> <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>     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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Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
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