Merhaba: During our meetup this evening, the idea of self-hosted Software Freedom project was explored.
This would mean, we rent out a "unmanaged" VM from a provider and then install and configure - SSH server - WebServer - SMTP server - POP server - Mailing list software - GIT server - IRC server - GCC compiler toolchain env - Database server (PostgreSQL) - JITSI server ... any other software or service that we require. That means patching, upgrades etc. are also our responsibility Handling sub-domains, domain parking etc To borrow the popular marketing terminology we are talking about going SERVERFUL instead of Serverless ! There are multiple provider(s) available whose pricing is more value based than ICDSoft where we currently host with for so many years. We'd like to keep the cost Euro 5 or less on a long-term investment basis (24+ months). eg - OVHCloud - Hetzner Key Questions - Which "unmanaged" VM / VPS service providers would you like to recommend for GNU/Linux hosting (ie. ArchLinux | Debian) ? - Would you like to explore and share your perspective from a "long-term" Software Freedom project perspective ? As part of your exploration, incase you reachout to a potential vendor, please share your findings as a reply to this discussion thread. Let the discussion roll. warm regards Saifi.
