My personal website is on a VPS. Working with an _actual computer_ (for the most part, effectively) is what I know best, and it's not terribly expensive, so why not.
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Same! Although I *never* update it 🤣. I am hoping to do a few more experiments which need to run servers, so I need something and am considering my options.
Well, as much as I would love to ethically source this kind of thing, I am pretty sure that the best options were either AWS or DO. So I decided to apply for the DO Open Source credit program. Between this and datadog, I think I could get a pretty decent automation and monitoring setup.
Yeah, its tough to ethically source anything these days. I actually considered using DO again but when I logged into the account I had saved in my password manager it said it was suspended with a $16 balance. No idea how I got that balance because I dont remember actually using them for anything.
Also dunno about political issues but had an 11! year old droplet still humming along that I finally wound down in favor of DO’s PaaS “deploy from git”. Super simple and happy enough for “fire and forget” infra.
Specifically I want to setup a few experiments (one is setting up some perf testing, which I never did hear back from that datadog oss submission, not to put that on you) and I want to be able to run on consistently behaving hardware (not my laptop).
I spent the morning turning off my wife's old blog which was on Linode. This is actually what got me thinking about if I wanted to continue using them or switch it up.
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IIRC they had some some, erm, political issues, but that seems to pale in comparison to ... the big players. I might not remember correctly.
1. api creation of resources
2. easy container registry