Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-16 20:52, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Cool, is it like a quickbooks product? > Written in fpgui or lazarus lcl? No, not quite. It is called BS1 Accounts, written by a Canadian using Delphi 7 I believe. Everything is written using only standard Delphi components and reporting tools

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

I have to say that I'm a big fan of FreeBSD as well. I have linux machines, windows machines, MacOSX machines, and FreeBSD machines, and out of all of them, I've had the fewest problems with the FreeBSD machines. As Graham points out, linux machines have a habbit of updating everything under

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-13 07:46, Luca Olivetti wrote: > El 13/03/17 a les 00:15, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: > Basically, it's true that there's no real transition path: ipv6 is > useless for servers since they cannot be contacted by ipv4 clients The problem lies full heartedly with the ISPs as far as I'm

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-13 01:52, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Unless you just change the entire bloatware software industry to stop > shipping 290 MB products that could be 1MB instead. Oh yeah, this is another pet hate of mine. My accounting package is a 5-8MB install and does absolutely everything. Compare

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

El 13/03/17 a les 00:15, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 20:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: AFAIK it isn't. https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html Take everything you read on the Internet with a pinch of salt. :) That page seems very old and much out of date. ie: it references multiple

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 17:15, Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:03:12 -0600, nore...@z505.com wrote: For websites with 10 visitors a day it might suffice... but then if those 10 visitors download a 5mb file even, it's super slow for them... Maybe ISP upload speeds are better in your country,

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 20:36, Travis Siegel wrote: 2 dollarsfor an additional 5GB of storage if you want it regardless of the plan you choose. Heck, I'm seriously considering getting one of these myself, and I don't even have an immediate need for it, just things I'd like to do that I've been putting

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 20:35, Travis Siegel wrote: Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Indeed, I only did research on them about 15-20 years ago and haven't done

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-12 18:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-12 21:27, nore...@z505.com wrote: With 1.8Mbps up link, that's roughly 0.2 mega bytes per second, so, if you run servers from your home that your customers access, what happens if someone downloads a 100MB file And that is exactly why

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-12 21:27, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Conspiracy theory: they are all purposely limiting upload speeds so we > don't run our own servers! Interesting theory. ;-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-12 20:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: > AFAIK it isn't. > > https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html Take everything you read on the Internet with a pinch of salt. :) That page seems very old and much out of date. ie: it references multiple times articles dated cira 2002 - that's 14 years ago.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-12 15:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: El 12/03/17 a les 19:08, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

El 12/03/17 a les 19:08, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can handle IPv4 traffic) AFAIK it isn't.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:41:22 +0100, José Mejuto (joshy...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?" (in <4ec7b29b-be2e-dacb-9694-522d0375f...@gmail.com>): > El 12/03/2017 a las 19:06, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: >> On 2017

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

El 12/03/2017 a las 19:06, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: On 2017-03-11 17:13, José Mejuto wrote: IPv6 in most ISPs will continue to be dynamic :-/ which have its advantages and problems. With my ISP (Sky Broadband in the UK), they allocate a huge amount of IPv6 addresses to each Sky Fibre

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? > or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can handle IPv4 traffic), but IPv6 has so many benefits and makes so many IPv4 "features" obsolete.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-11 17:13, José Mejuto wrote: > IPv6 in most ISPs will continue to be dynamic :-/ which have its > advantages and problems. With my ISP (Sky Broadband in the UK), they allocate a huge amount of IPv6 addresses to each Sky Fibre customers. These addresses don't change as far as I know -

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

El 11/03/2017 a las 11:04, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: Now the only thing remaining is for all ISP's to switch off IPv4 and only use IPv6 (wishful thinking). Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? Yet another latest and greatest I will

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

På Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:08:16 + Graeme Geldenhuys skrev: > On 2017-03-10 17:05, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > I see my router has a few such > > entries like DynDNS.org etc. > > > I just had a look at this. $40 per year, plus another $29 per year for > Managed

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-11 12:20, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In most Dutch cities too. I'm currently on 60/60mbps for 65 eur/month triple > play. (fullhd TV, internet, telephone landline). VirginMedia has very good triple deals and download speeds. I used to have 160Mbps down with full HD TV and phone for

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > 100 bucks, I'm not complaining, since a standard T1 is only 1.54MBPS. > > Here in the UK they have been trial'ing 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home > connections in a single town for a couple months now. The rate is > ?30/month. I can't remember the

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 14:53, Santiago A. wrote: > I register i.e "mycompanyname.dyndns.com", and in the DNS of our hosting > I add a CNAME entry "office.mydomain.com" that points to > "mycompanyname.dyndns.com" My problem is how do I get "mydomain.com" to point to "mycompanyname.dyndns.com". As far as I

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-11 02:35, Travis Siegel wrote: > I've not priced them recently, so have no idea what it would cost to get > one, but considering I get 25MBPS from my current provider for less than > 100 bucks, I'm not complaining, since a standard T1 is only 1.54MBPS. Here in the UK they have been

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2 dollarsfor an additional 5GB of storage if you want it regardless of the plan you choose. Heck, I'm seriously considering getting one of these myself, and I don't even have an immediate need for it, just things I'd like to do that I've been putting off for years. This might give me the

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Of course, these days, with fiber, and highspeed dsl, a T1 line is relatively useless considering the cost and

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

El 10/03/2017 a las 18:05, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: Brilliant idea, thanks for suggesting it. I see my router has a few such entries like DynDNS.org etc. I'll research this a bit more over the weekend, and yes it will save me a lot of time (not having to reconfigure servers from scratch).

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 16:08, Travis Siegel wrote: > Might save you a whole lot of work and likely to be cheaper than > a vpn as well. Brilliant idea, thanks for suggesting it. I see my router has a few such entries like DynDNS.org etc. I'll research this a bit more over the weekend, and yes it will save

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 15:50, nore...@z505.com wrote: > It's hard to find BSD hosting and digitalocean offers it as you can > install your own copy of any OS they have available. Actually no, there are quite a lot that support FreeBSD VMs. Just last night I found the following: * DigitalOcean * Vultr

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

On 2017-03-10 07:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 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/

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

There are dynamic dns services that can solve this problem for you. Some of them are even supported directly by some routers, so you might want to check your router configuration, and see if it has built-in support for any of the dynamic dns services, and use that one, so you don't have to do

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

Hi Graeme, Στις 2017-03-10 15:18, Graeme Geldenhuys έγραψε: 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). < snip > Are any of you familiar or use with such services? What's your