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[ale] Phew!!!
Charles Shapiro via Ale
2018-05-15 15:29:01 UTC
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Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like
mine. They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end
of June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and
occasionally resource-starved enough to throw error messages like this:

/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad
ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory

Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper
than the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.

I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one ("
tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?

-- CHS
Jim Kinney via Ale
2018-05-15 15:35:44 UTC
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Post by Charles Shapiro via Ale
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like
mine. They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by
the end of June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date
and occasionally resource-starved enough to throw error messages like
bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp
everything off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2
server, where I have full access and control. I suspect this will
also be a lot cheaper than the outrageous prices Lightbound was
charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new
server under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks
like my next step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her,
assign it to the VM's "public IP address", and then change my DNS to
point to it. After that, I believe I'll just need to go through my
changes and change the old dns name ("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-
1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one ("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else
been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is there Stuff I should
Watch Out For?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^amazon. 'nuff said.
I have a VPS through servermania. Ancient legacy account but current OS
- $50/year. Newer stuff is more but not by much.
OK. so I _also_ have a small pile of hardware in my basement that I can
use to heat my house with.
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Matty via Ale
2018-05-15 16:51:11 UTC
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I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.

- Ryan
https://prefetch.net
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and occasionally
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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Kyle Brieden via Ale
2018-05-15 17:22:13 UTC
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On this same token, I'm getting ready to migrate my mail server and a
couple websites from one DO droplet to a shiny new DO droplet. They
just dropped new VM flavors that are 2x the RAM for the same cost. My
$5/month half gig VM will be migrated to a $5/month 1GB RAM VM. I was
really just waiting for Ubuntu 18.04 to hit actual release.

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden
Post by Matty via Ale
I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.
- Ryan
https://prefetch.net
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and
occasionally
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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James Taylor via Ale
2018-05-15 18:00:08 UTC
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My experience Digital Ocean is from a mail filter viewpoint.
They have datacenters in several locations internationally, and don't seem to be too concerned about folks hosting spam engines.
I've tried blocking countries they're in because traffic coming from specific data centers, but I found that I have customers that communicate with US companies that have some of their email hosted in those datacenters.
Really leaves a bad taste...
-jt



James Taylor
678-697-9420
I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.

- Ryan
https://prefetch.net
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and occasionally
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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Tory Deron via Ale
2018-05-15 18:04:50 UTC
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I’ve been using Ramnode for years. I pay $10 a month for a hosted KVM VM, 40GB disk space, 2GB RAM, and about 3TB of monthly bandwidth. I have never had a single issue. The VM is running Ubuntu server 16.04. I don’t know if it is the best or cheapest, but it is reliable and fast.

Tory
Post by James Taylor via Ale
My experience Digital Ocean is from a mail filter viewpoint.
They have datacenters in several locations internationally, and don't seem to be too concerned about folks hosting spam engines.
I've tried blocking countries they're in because traffic coming from specific data centers, but I found that I have customers that communicate with US companies that have some of their email hosted in those datacenters.
Really leaves a bad taste...
-jt
James Taylor
678-697-9420
I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.
- Ryan
https://prefetch.net
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and occasionally
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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Beddingfield, Allen via Ale
2018-05-15 18:02:52 UTC
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I recently switched from Digital Ocean to Vultr. My reason for switching? You can upload your own ISO image and load the VM yourself. I wanted openSUSE Leap, and that was the easiest way to get it. So far, so good with them.
Allen B.
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On 5/15/18, 11:52 AM, "Ale on behalf of Matty via Ale" <ale-***@ale.org on behalf of ***@ale.org> wrote:

I switched from Pair Networks to a Digital Ocean droplets earlier this
year. So far everything has been rock solid and for $5 a month you
can't go wrong. When you combine a basic droplet, Nginx and a free SSL
certificate from Let's Encrypt it's really hard to beat. AWS is rock
solid as well. You will be happy there.

- Ryan
https://prefetch.net
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like mine.
They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end of
June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and occasionally
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF
interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper than
the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one
("tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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Phil Turmel via Ale
2018-05-15 19:42:41 UTC
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Note that your provider of your new IP address has to set up the reverse
lookup record.
Post by Charles Shapiro via Ale
Lightbound Hosting has is finally giving up on "Legacy" websites like
mine. They're going to a model which doesn't include ssh access by the end
of June. The VM they provide is now fabulously out of date and
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: /bin/egrep: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad
ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: line 57: [: too many arguments
/home/cshapiro/bin/kill_dartspam.sh: fork: Cannot allocate memory
Fortunately, using my current access I managed to rsync and scp everything
off the Lightbound server to a brand-new spiffin' AWS EC2 server, where I
have full access and control. I suspect this will also be a lot cheaper
than the outrageous prices Lightbound was charging me as well.
I've got email forwarding and all my Web Stuff working on the new server
under the temporary public DNS name assigned by Amazon. Looks like my next
step is to reserve an Elastic IP address for her, assign it to the VM's
"public IP address", and then change my DNS to point to it. After that, I
believe I'll just need to go through my changes and change the old dns name
("ec2-NN-NN-NN-NN.compute-1.amazonaws.com") to the correct one ("
tomshiro.org"). Anyone else been through this? Am I Missing a Step? Is
there Stuff I should Watch Out For?
-- CHS
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