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

2017-03-10 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-other
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

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

2017-03-10 Thread José Mejuto
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?

2017-03-10 Thread noreply
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?

2017-03-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
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?

2017-03-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
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?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
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?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
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?

2017-03-10 Thread Travis Siegel
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