"Chuck" == Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:02:24PM -0400, Cara Salter via WLUG wrote:
Hi Tim & Keith,
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 21:20 -0400, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
Though from a pure linux nerd point of view, I've come to love Linode. It's basically a cloud provider built by linux geeks. Also if you look around there are all kinds of incentives where they'll give you a 100 bucks to screw around. The other cloud provider I've tinkered with is digital ocean, as well as AWS/GCP/Oracle cloud. The pro/con of going to the cloud is they hide most of the knobs..
My personal beef with Linode and AWS/GCP is the price. I've had great success with NetCup[0] which currently runs my mail and backup servers. They're pretty cheap but I've been using them for two-three years with minimal issues.
I have worked on Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr before and they're all great offerings, just a tad on the expensive side for me.
The other problem (which I have and aluded to earlier) is that @charter.net is blocking all emails from linode IP blocks. Which sucks since that's the ISP for my town, unless you're lucky enough to live on the few streets with FIOS.
If you can hold your nose, Oracle Cloud offers free forever instances. That is where the WLUG website and DNS server is running these days.
These are probablhy the most relevant free services you could use to replicate what you have at home now:
- 2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU** and 1 GB memory each
- Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or up to 4 VMs with 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month
** 1 OCPU on x86 CPU Architecture (AMD and Intel) = 2 vCPUs; 1 OCPU on Arm CPU Architecture (Ampere) = 1 vCPU
- 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total
- Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month
- Email Delivery: 3,000 emails sent per day
And what's the price?
This sounds like a good WLUG topic: Getting Started with the Cloud. How to open a Cloud account, install and manage Linux, IP addresses, firewall rules, etc.
I could do a talk sometime about how I use ansible to setup Linodes and some of the issues and problems I've run into while doing so.