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

[Santiago A.]

El 10/03/2017 a las 14:18, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió:

> 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.
Have you tried a dynamic DNS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS

That's what we use to access remotely to my office that has dynamic IP
and we also install it in our customers' offices.

We use http://www.dyndns.com.
The cheapest service only allow you to register domains like
xxxxxxxxxx at dyndns.com. No problem:
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"

In Spain usually you don't have many services behind you router (just
remote desktop and a few things) because in Spain most connections are
asymmetric, that is, you may have downloads speeds from 50 or 300Mb, but
uploads of 5Mb. There are also symmetric connections but are expensive.
So, web services, mail etc, are hosted in the "cloud", that is, servers
in data centers with good carriers.

> 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.
For legal reasons our server must be in EU. Our hosting server is in
Spain. It's not the best (hosting in Spain is expensive), but they offer
a good and personal support.
About countries on privacy, the best is Spain ;-). We have a law, LOPD
(Law for data protection) that is one of toughest in EU.

I also worked for a year with https://www.leaseweb.com/
I was satisfied those days, four or five years ago.

Be careful with very cheap plans. 512 Mb ram may be short, i.e. a
wordpress doesn't run, crawls, you have errors, services that suddenly
stop and things like that.
You could start with 512 Mb, but if watch it closely, probably you'll
run into errors and clogs and you will have to upgrade it soon. There is
no free lunch.

My personal hosting (personal mail and friends maillists and little
more) is in http://www.jumpline.com. When I hired it years ago it was
digitalspace, and I liked it. Later was it bought by jumpline, and I'm
not very happy now. I'm looking for a new one.

-- 
Saludos

Santiago A.
svaa at ciberpiula.net