[H-GEN] Suggestions for a new host for www.humbug.org.au

[Gary Curtis]

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:

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> On 29 February 2016 at 12:13, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>
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>> I am after input from people in the club who can vouch for an VM
>> provider.  (Reply here.)  The VM needs a minimum 10G of disk, and 512MB
>> of RAM, 1TB of bandwidth per month, a working responsive ticketing
>> system, and a public IPv4 address that allows us to send and receive on
>> ports 25 (email), 53 (dns), 80 (http), 443 (https), 465 (smtps) and 587
>> (email submission), and all ports above 1024.  The major load is the
>> backups, which scan the entire file system once per hour.
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> ​Digital Ocean's basic service offers what you ask for (but with double
> the disk) at $5 US per month. I've used them for quite some time with zero
> problems. The one time I used support (for a pebkac issue), they were
> excellent. They have a 99.99% uptime SLA. They have locations in lost of
> places, but the best bandwidth for us here is at their Singapore location.
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> They do have a TOS, but it essentially is aimed at abusive outgoing stuff,
> not the sort of traffic we would generate. Their links are all 1Gbps.
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> I recommend them strongly.
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...and they (DO) are active supporters of Open Source, etc. They have
sponsored CampJS twice (to my recollection).

I know that the above is irrelevant to actual usage options, but its nice
to support those who support us.

Gaz
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