a very weeny construct 💀

RE: https://tiny.tilde.website/@colocataires/116036259984515720

if you host a virtual machine with AWS, OVH, RackNerd, Digital Ocean, or other places i highly recommend a read through colocataires' (new) website

they also just launched a new $60CAD/yr tiny vm package

that is three and a half american bucks per month yall. that's 3/4 of a tall (small) iced caffè latte! it's competitive with the barrel-bottom junk i used to rent elsewhere

AND you get good feels from hosting with eco-conscious real people

Feb 8 at 7:43pmWeb
Show threada very weeny construct 💀Feb 8
i so love that there's now a link on colocataires' site to the time our admin kept the mastodon instance i'm on up and running well into an epic regional power-outage by lashing together a cake of lawnmower batteries. i want everybody to read that heroic story
Show threada very weeny construct 💀Feb 17

no joke being a colocataires customer is recurring source of positive feelings for me in the ongoing conflagration, and that is so rare

Secondhand gear: Our servers are 10 years old. We upgrade and put them right back into service.

Redundant architecture: We replicate to a minimum of two machines.

Use Ontario's mostly-green power. And not too much.

Stay small. Our goal isn't to maximize profit: we just want this to exist.

-- Colocataires' philosophy

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