[H-GEN] [H-ADMIN] Paying for hosting via PayPal

[Gary Curtis]

I am happy to stay with Digital Ocean for the time being. Favouring
stability and support over price.

If anyone followed Russel's link to lowendbox.com and found a 'Sold Out'
message, there is a work-around.

I created an account first, then went to 'Add a service' to the account and
found the half-price specials available there.

Hang the expense, I bought two.

Gary
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Gary Curtis      t: 07 3801 1311    m: 04 1455 1488


On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:

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> On 2 April 2016 at 22:55, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oh, and I should also add that last meeting Gaz asked about the cost of
> > hosting.  As you know he ponders things out loud for a long time, and I
> > was attempting to teach myself Rust at that time.  Clever guy, that
> > Gaz. I found this for him:
> >
> >    https://lowendbox.com/blog/openvirtuals-16year-openvz-256mb-ram-90gb
> > -hd-1tb-bw-in-atlanta/
> >
> > It turns out for USD$20/yr, fixed for life, provides we get what we are
> > getting now from Digital Ocean for USD$60/yr.  Well, maybe, because
> > Digital Ocean is more of a known quantity.
> >
> > I've personally signed up because my current USA VPS costs me
> > USD$60/yr, and I'm a sucker for cheap crap.  It's worked well for the
> > past 96 hours.  Crissic worked well when we signed up of course, but
> > only for 2 years.
> >
> > USD$20/yr is a 50% discount rate for marketing purposes.  I imagine it
> > will expire at some time. I don't know when - maybe soon, maybe not.
> >
> > It turned out moving the Humbug was very easy, so I can easily do it
> > again. So I'm asking the Exec and Sasig if we should move again, as it
> > MAY save us money in the long term.  Note we have just paid for 7
> > months hosting on Digital Ocean, so we lose in the short term.  But at
> > 12 months on we are ahead.  And we don't really lose the credits at
> > Digital Ocean.  They stay around forever, so we can switch back if it
> > all turns to shit.
> >
> > I vote yes for the move.
>
> Here's my take on it. We know Digital Ocean is working well for us now,
> so let's not take any hasty action just yet.
>
> I'd like Russell to attach his Nagios monitor to his own new VPS (with
> nags coming to me as well, as we have done for the Humbug site) so that
> we can at least get some data on how well it works. It's not the same as
> the Humbug website in terms of load and traffic, but it would tell us
> something.
>
> Then, assuming it all goes well for the next three weeks, we could set
> up the new thing at the Humbug meeting on 23 April, so limiting us to
> another $5 for Digital Ocean.
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