Subj : Re: Intel NUCs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Adept
Date : Sat Aug 19 2023 11:53:35

 pF> They pissed me off when they stopped supporting mail forwarding on local
 pF> mailboxes. I used to forward my email off to gmail but liked having a
 pF> local copy as a backup.

Ah, yeah. I do get why they did it -- Google would start marking everything coming from dreamhost as being spam, because their filters weren't understanding that it was people forwarding their own e-mail.

Though that does seem like a Google problem that became your problem. And I do wonder if they could've found another way.

I forget their reasoning for getting rid of catch-all addresses. Though, for my use case, where I have probably thousands of e-mail addresses, at this point, getting rid of catch-all addresses is directly equivalent to getting rid of e-mail service.

I mean, I could theoretically do it a different way; it's just that it'd require a massive amount of work and/or giving up a large amount of functionality.

But I think my use case was uncommon enough that they were okay with ending it.

 pF> Interesting. I've never had any complaints except for the odd email
 pF> about high memory usage when I was running a photo gallery and it was
 pF> doing a lot of rendering/thumbnail generation. I'm on a shared server,
 pF> though.

Ah, yeah. I'd get, "and we restarted your server" messages, from that. When I said that 300megs wasn't enough for anything, it's probably enough for a relatively-static Wordpress install, with nothing else on the server.

But if I'm getting a VPS, that seems... weak. And kinda pointless to have that, without any sort of sudo access, than just going the shared route.

Though, with the upgrade next month, it would be on a different plan, on a different server, and more memory, and about the same cost.

 pF>  I got grandfathered in at $11/month for a shared plan, it's mostly
 pF>  worth it because I can spin up a wordpress site in a couple of minutes
 pF>  -- and I'm not looking forward to moving my "permanent" sites.

I _guess_ they haven't raised the price in 7 years or something, other than that memory usage probably went up, so having a server that does something other than constantly reboot wound up costing more, regardless.

So $15/month for the restricted VPS (and access to a shared SQL server), plus $5/month for each additional 100mb of memory. Which does not seem competitive, at this point. The new plan would be a gig of memory, 25gigs max storage, for $20/month.

I think I was getting something fairly similar at Vultr for $6/month, with root access.

But, yeah, moving those "permanent" sites is a _pain_. I guess that's why Docker and Kubernetes are as popular as they are. Well, part of the reason why.

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