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

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

Hi,


On 10/3/2017 18:08, Travis Siegel wrote:
> 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.

don't know for Graeme but running a VPS was the result of my decision to 
run my own mail and dns server for my domain . The problem running these 
services ( mainly for mail ) on a dynamic dns connection is the lack of 
rDNS .

So, with a cost of ~120€/year I've a Debian Server with ISPConfig 
running DNS, MAIL, WEB, FTP, etc . Succesfully run a GOGS ( go git 
service ), ISPConfig supported DynDNS and more, leaving my home office 
connection free for other uses .

regards,

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Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis