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

[Timothy White]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Linode. I know they aren't Australian,
but they have a Singapore datacenter, and at $10 USD a month, provide a
pretty decent deal. I've used them for multiple workplaces for more than 5
years now, and other than the DDOS they experienced early this year,
haven't had any issues. The DDOS they experienced only caused issues with
their DNS hosting, and getting into the control panel, the VPS was fine.

Otherwise, I use Digital Ocean for my other provider, as they are cheaper.
Again, no complaints about them, they even gave me $50 credit for reporting
a bug, which paid for a decent chunk of hosting!

Tim

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Russell Stuart <
russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:

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> As you can see from the exasperated tone of our secretary below, the
> hosting arrangements for Humbug's web site aren't working out so well
> at the moment.
>
> 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.
>
> The background to this is we are currently using Crissic (https://criss
> ic.net/ - don't winge to me, it neatly summarises the problem), which
> for USD$15/yr provides 10G/512MB/2TB.  Crissic worked well enough for
> us for about 2 years (there were some problems with them blocking port
> 25, but they fixed that after enough tickets were submitted).  However
> sometime in the past month Crissic has over committed the machine
> Humbug's VM runs on, to the point that it sometimes is hard to
> distinguish our VM from a dead one.
>
>
> On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:27 +1000, Clinton Roy wrote:
> > One thing we'll definitely be discussing is moving our vhost to
> > something that can provide enough cpu cycles to run our website and
> > wiki.
> >
> > As I write this announcement I can't actually get to the wiki, which
> > is why this announcement is light on detail...
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Russell Stuart
> wearing his Humbug Sysadmin hat.
>
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