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

[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 anything at all, just set your dns to point to the 
dynamic dns servers, and the ips will change automatically when your ip 
does.  I've used a couple such services in the past, and they've all 
worked fairly well.  I can't use one now, because somehow, my isp blocks 
incoming traffic to server ports, regardless of what I set them to.  
<shrug> Might save you a whole lot of work and likely to be cheaper than 
a vpn as well.


On 3/10/2017 8:18 AM, 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/
>     https://www.vultr.com/locations/
>
> This seems amazing value. And the problem I currently have with hosting
> many of my company services myself (like I've been doing for over 4
> years), is that I lost my static IPv4 address and my ISP can't give me a
> new one. This year alone my IP address has changed about 5 times, and
> that means until I notice or my clients complain, my services can't be
> accessed, and I need to keep updating many DNS entries and wait until
> they propagate across the globe. I already stopped self-hosting my email
> due to this issue. With a VPS I'll get an assigned IPv4 and IPv6 address
> and it will stay mine as long as I don't delete the VPS I set up.
>
> I'm not really a big fan of cloud based services, but with Vultr, I can
> pick the country I host in (a choice of 15 I think), so that is a big
> plus, and the price is really good - starting at $2.50 per month. I also
> have a huge choice of various OSes and versions I can use to configure a
> VPS (luckily FreeBSD is in that list too), and it takes 60 seconds to
> get a new VPS up and running - amazing!
>
>    https://www.vultr.com/faq/#accordion-tech
>
> Are any of you familiar or use with such services? What's your thoughts
> on the subject? Privacy, reliability, speed, preferred country of
> hosting etc.
>
> They do per hour billing too, so if one wanted to test a new program or
> installation on a different OS, this seems a quick and easy way of doing
> it too (without having to create tons of different VM's, though I
> already have plenty such VM images lying around). So this might not be
> such a big "added advantage" for me.
>
> Regards,
>    Graeme
>


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