@james … you said “Asure”. Did you mean “Azure”?
I found out that I can re-arm their eval license and it worked. I guess it’s good for another 6 months or so. But it gives me some time to plan something else. Meanwhile, in case anybody is interested … I have T-Mobile Home Internet and they recently introduced something similar for Businesses. So I called to find out more. The price is the same at $50/mo, but you can request a static IP for $3/mo extra. It’s not discussed much. They don’t block any ports, but they do filter content — you can call and get that shut off for no cost. (They say it’s mainly for videos, whatever that means.) -David Schwartz > On Jul 11, 2023, at 7:34 PM, James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just gonna toss it out there. Asure isn't a bad little hosting environment. > If you're running windows, most of the lockin discussion is already moot. > 4gb runs about $30/month. > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:04 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > I can't speak to the hosting side, but why not just get a windows license to > feed the beast? > > I presume this is a windows server, if the hosting is cheap enough, might be > worth just getting the license vs moving, but someone has to pay microsoft, > and it's always going to be you one way or another. The site I usually > recommend gkeys24 has win server licenses too, so long as you're using > something new enough they have, it was cheap enough at like $30 for a server > 2022 license at least. > > Even at full cost, if that much of a dependency and pita to move, it might be > worth the cost to toss it a license and be done. > > -mb > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > Ok, I know this is going to make y’all cringe, but ... I need to find a > reliable, ethical, and inexpensive hosting VPS for a Windows back-end service > app I’m working on. > > I’ve been hosting at a place called VirMach that has both Win and Linux, and > it turns out they’ve been laoding up TRIAL licenses on their Windows VPS > machines. Mine is now shutting down every day since the trial period expired, > and they say it’s on me to fix it. > > Right now I don’t need a lot of resources. I have a web service that I’m > working on that still needs some work completed, but I’m getting close to > hitting my first major milestone. > > Anyway, I’m just wondering if anybody can recommend where to go for a > light-duty Win VPS host. If it can scale-up later, that would be great. > > I need 4GB of RAM because I’ve found anything less that that runs horribly > slow. The bandwidth isn’t that much, and the disk space isn’t either. It’s > more of a traffic cop: I’ve got a bunch of files cached on a Linux host > elsewhere, and this thing just runs a bunch of logic, talks to 3rd-party > services, and supports a simple database to say where to find other resources. > > Thanks > > -David Schwartz > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > > > -- > James McPhee > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>--------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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