[ale] Phew!!!

[Matty]

I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.

- Ryan
https://prefetch.net

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
> They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
> June.  The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and occasionally
> resource-starved enough to throw error messages like this:
>
> /home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
> interpreter: No such file or directory
> /home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
> /home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
> off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
> have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
> the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
>
> I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
> under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon.  Looks like my next
> step is to reserve an  Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
> "public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it.  After that, I
> believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
> ("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
> ("tomshiro.org").  Anyone else been through this?  Am I Missing a Step?  Is
> there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
>
> -- CHS
>
>
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