Re: VPS recommendations?

On 10/17/24 01:51, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone recommend a good VPS, a virtual private server, for my domain?
>
> ixian.com has been hosted at sonic.net for maybe 20 years now, but hosting is now a legacy service to them. They took shell access away earlier this year (2024), and their help desk tells me they no longer offer a secure way for domain holders to copy files up to them, only insecure FTP. Ridiculous and disappointing.
>
> So I'm looking for a (BSD or Linux) server where I can:
>
>          - host my domain
>          - receive domain email (to *@ixian.com)
>          - from which I download email to home with IMAP or what have you (I don't possess the expertise or inclination to run my own mail server)
>          - have shell access
>          - host a simple, basically static web site
>          - keep some files (less than 1 GB)
>
> I (presently, sadly) get Internet connectivity via Comcast, so I don't need a connectivity solution.

These are different things. Using the same provider for all of them may be cheaper and easier to log into, but will probably also be a worst 
experience than treating them as separate items.

I've been punting on standing up a personal email domain, but when I do I plan to use Proton mail https://proton.me/mail/pricing. As an aside, there 
is a lot of DNS stuff with email (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) that I don't know how easy it is to set up these days but is bare minimum.

For the 1GB files, you don't say what privacy & backup requirements you have around those (will you be self-encrypting, relying on them, or not 
caring, and do you need them to keep more than one copy.) You could do the VPS / VPS provider or there's https://www.tarsnap.com/ be warned there is 
not much of a grace period with them if you let your account expire.

For shell access, you can go anywhere from a container to a bring your own kernel VPS. If you're inclined towards the non-corporate, you might try 
https://iocoop.org/services/virtual-private-servers/ I have not used them for VPS services but I have a friend who colocates with them.

For static hosting, I would either do github pages or a dead simple nginx config on a VPS.

--Sarah