Cube DroneI left OVH for Hetzner for price reasons, and now, many years later, it looks like I'm leaving Hetzner for OVH... for... price reasons
oop, never mind, the reason they can offer such impressive prices for VPSs is that they don't actually have any available to sell.
i can offer you the best price in the game for VPSs that I don't have
$4.99/mo for 96 vCPUs and 256GB RAM, and dedicated GPU! (out of stock)
they might have some if I'm willing to suffer server hosting on the other side of the planet, but only if I'm willing to be very, very patient and I don't want more than one
Hetzner's doing a big across-the-board price increase that's gonna cost me tens of dollars a month, so I'm open to alternatives, but they are few and far between, and _none_ of them in Canada unless I'm willing to pay double or triple and work with a hosting provider that runs everything on a Java application server they found in someone's basement
I keep wondering if I can make self hosting practical now that I have hundred megabit fiber in my house, although the dynamic IP address and consumer firewall/router is kind of a sore spot, there
I could have one load balancer running in the cloud pointed back at a computer that moves around, maybe?
"Musty Bits" McGee@cube_drone yea I hear that's common for hiding your IP. Wireguard or whatever between and reverse proxy in cloud
Az@cube_drone that's kinda my setup!
check that your ISP gives you an addressable dynamic IP address and doesn't use CG-NAT (or you'll need the load balancer to have a VPN connection home)
i use a mix of dynamic DNS for some stuff and one or two things with a single cheap cloud VPS with haproxy to home, although I need a better/faster option for getting it to pick up my new IP when it resets.
Fritz Adalis@cube_drone
I just have my firewall run a script that updates my dns provider whenever it renews dhcp. DNS TTL is set to 1 hour. It's worked well so far.
I just have my firewall run a script that updates my dns provider whenever it renews dhcp. DNS TTL is set to 1 hour. It's worked well so far.
Also my home's often spotty power could present a small issue
LovesTha🥧@cube_drone depends, services you mostly use from home don't care about that.
@cube_drone DDNS is pretty straightforward and you can do a decent routing box with those fanless N100 previous generation the N5505 or whatever should be cheaper now
Diddums@cube_drone
What are you looking to host? Would tailscale solve the access issue? No public facing ports required, can even even cname the funnel forwarded hosts if you want something public
What are you looking to host? Would tailscale solve the access issue? No public facing ports required, can even even cname the funnel forwarded hosts if you want something public
BenderIsGreat34@cube_drone Maybe if there is more demand for VPs in Canada region they will increase capacity
@andymoose it appears that my demand for 1 VPS has utterly outstripped their supply of 0 VPSs, so I hope they take that in to account
@cube_drone lol. I have an 8Gb 2 Vcore VPS in that region. Are they also out of these smaller instance sizes?
@cube_drone To the French I think we are a backwater region not worthy of love.
@andymoose yeah, I checked all of the sizes they were offering
@cube_drone Wow that’s terrible. I was having a good experience with OVH last year - have they already been enshittified ?
I don't know, although I suspect that it's just "their data center is full and it would cost a lot to add more data center"
@cube_drone Maybe more Canadians than I thought finally decided to ditch US services and move to EU providers. A good thing. We can only hope that’s the reason.