[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Leam Hall]

I use Hover for DNS and my main web stuff is pretty static. So the 
solution is now GitHub pages for things like the resume and a CNAME to 
blogspot for those times I muse in public. Cost and my support 
requirements are greatly reduced.

Thanks all!

Leam

On 12/17/18 8:39 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> When doing something for myself, I just use my home Comcast Business and my own hardware.
> 
> For more important, customers, business, etc., I use Linode or DO. If corporate work for a customer, I offer AWS, GCP, or Azure.
> 
> For my personal tech blog, it’s Octopress on GitHub pages.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 17, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> 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