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dansup

Omg, I fucking love Digital Ocean ❤️

Hands down the best hosting provider for devs and fedi admins

m.do.co/c/4ef5c2bc7dc9

#useDigitalOcean

3 May at 9:12 | Open on mastodon.social
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harfang

@dansup I like OVH, although I’m not a dev and I’m a solo admin single user lol.

3 May at 9:13 | Open on mastodon.nz
Григорий Клюшников

But last time I checked, DO only offered all kinds of pay-per-use fancy cloud stuff, and the closest thing they had to actual servers were VDSes that were way too expensive for their specs.

3 May at 9:28
dansup

@grishka The VPS (Droplets) they offer and the other services are priced accordingly.

I've never had any issues hosting pixelfed.social for over 6 years on the same droplet, that level of service/platform stability does come with a premium.

I'd be hesitant to use a service hosted by the cheapest provider 😉

3 May at 9:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)

@dansup @grishka the cheapest provider is Hetzner - and they're cheap because they're German, not because of low quality. However, they are apparently homophobic, sooo...

3 May at 9:50 | Open on tech.lgbt
Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

@laxla @dansup @grishka …is Netcup queerphobic? honestly would like to know, they’re somehow better priced as far as I can tell….

3 May at 9:51 | Open on fedi.xerz.one
retiolus
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@dansup Yeah! Using a droplet as a reverse proxy to send this post! They have never given me any problems

3 May at 10:42 | Open on ap.insertapp.net
Jerry Lerman

@dansup I'll second this.

I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.

Once they contacted me because I forgot to close a port in the firewall a few hours after I forgot to close it, so they do security scanning as well.

Scaling to a larger server, to get more disk space, or a larger DB is just a click.

Automated backups.

I think they are worth the small extra cost.

@dansup I'll second this.

I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.

3 May at 12:33 | Open on hear-me.social
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