[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Simba]

Uh huh, and can you offer any more detail about how your VMs were lost?
Was it user error?

Being able to load your own ISO is a nice feature, and one that Digital
Ocean recently started to offer. Personally I don't find it extremely
useful, since I only use Debian.

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On 12/17/18 10:38 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> 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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