Servers, continued
Mar. 22nd, 2018 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcFor some time still my personal life has unusually much occurring in the categories that I tend not to mention here. Among other things, these distractions have put my personal server migration even more on the back burner. I did try a few cheap dedicated hosting providers who varied in their inadequacy. The best was ServDiscount who offer
I had the idea of instead having a domestic broadband-using friend or two bump up to a plan that offers a static IP for incoming connections and simply locating some low-power hardware at their house as it is not as if I need much bandwidth. However at first glance it seems that those plans are typically expensive: e.g., Comcast business starts at $70/month for Internet alone. I pay much less to Zen though I lost a couple of hours late last night to what may have been some unscheduled Openreach maintenance. For the meantime I do not expect to make progress on any of these fronts and shall continue to tolerate the glue and string that hold my present arrangements together.
Dedicated server rent in the German data center!and whose support was both prompt and competent; they seem to be a myLoc reseller. The German providers are kind of fun for me in comparison with the French: in both cases the English veneer is thin and my German is rather worse than my French. Still, even ServDiscount did not suffice in that I kept running into IPMI that offered unreliable Java-based KVM clients where one downloads the JARs from the firmware and makes various security exceptions to allow them to run. Perhaps I would have had more luck with a more modern HTML5-based offering but after trying a fair few server providers I still find myself without any who offer a cheap dedicated server that includes console access on which I can confidently rely.
I had the idea of instead having a domestic broadband-using friend or two bump up to a plan that offers a static IP for incoming connections and simply locating some low-power hardware at their house as it is not as if I need much bandwidth. However at first glance it seems that those plans are typically expensive: e.g., Comcast business starts at $70/month for Internet alone. I pay much less to Zen though I lost a couple of hours late last night to what may have been some unscheduled Openreach maintenance. For the meantime I do not expect to make progress on any of these fronts and shall continue to tolerate the glue and string that hold my present arrangements together.
