Last night I was investigating the idea of moving some of my personal and company VMs and services to a remote cloud based VPS (Virtual Private Server).
eg: https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ https://www.vultr.com/locations/ This seems amazing value. And the problem I currently have with hosting many of my company services myself (like I've been doing for over 4 years), is that I lost my static IPv4 address and my ISP can't give me a new one. This year alone my IP address has changed about 5 times, and that means until I notice or my clients complain, my services can't be accessed, and I need to keep updating many DNS entries and wait until they propagate across the globe. I already stopped self-hosting my email due to this issue. With a VPS I'll get an assigned IPv4 and IPv6 address and it will stay mine as long as I don't delete the VPS I set up. I'm not really a big fan of cloud based services, but with Vultr, I can pick the country I host in (a choice of 15 I think), so that is a big plus, and the price is really good - starting at $2.50 per month. I also have a huge choice of various OSes and versions I can use to configure a VPS (luckily FreeBSD is in that list too), and it takes 60 seconds to get a new VPS up and running - amazing! https://www.vultr.com/faq/#accordion-tech Are any of you familiar or use with such services? What's your thoughts on the subject? Privacy, reliability, speed, preferred country of hosting etc. They do per hour billing too, so if one wanted to test a new program or installation on a different OS, this seems a quick and easy way of doing it too (without having to create tons of different VM's, though I already have plenty such VM images lying around). So this might not be such a big "added advantage" for me. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
