Subj : Re: Moving my boards to the cloud
To   : niter3
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Jan 03 2023 15:47:24

On 12/7/22 19:19, niter3 wrote:
> On 08 Dec 2022, apam said the following...
>>> Who are you guys hosting your bbs with?
>>
>> I used to use vultr for my BBS, but have since moved it to a PC at home.
>> I still use vultr for talismanbbs.com.
>>
>> In the past I've used digital ocean, and even longer ago linode. I prefer
>> vultr ...
> 
> Have you seen prices less then $5 a month? and more ?

I haven't seen pricing under $5/mo that I'd trust myself. I'm using 
DigitalOcean on Intel 4GB ram droplet with backup service... I also have 
a $5 droplet running Caddy as a reverse proxy for my BBS and a few other 
things... a bit of an odd config, but didn't feel like messing with 
Synchronet's let's encrypt integration.

On the VPS, I'm running the BBS containerized (docker) ... and can rsync 
the bbs data files down for backup.  Not including DNS changes, I can 
have the BBS completely moved in about 15m from creation of the VPS this 
way.

I'm also using SendGrid for email delivery... I had trouble getting off 
of a couple of block lists (one of MS's 3 services had issue) since it's 
a "cloud" host.  Have been thinking about setting up a mail server on 
Hetzner or PhoenixNAP and dropping sendgrid.
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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