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renting used servers? any pointers would be helpful - $150/yr sounds cool How much technical (DevOps-y) do you have to be keep it secure & available?

• Mo3 10y ago
  Almost none. Put CoreOS on both, pull yourself a HA database and install Rancher which creates a ipsec network overlay (both hosts), set up your containers on both hosts, set up HAProxy on both hosts (configuration is done only once), then set up an external DNS service from the library that updates your DNS when a host goes down. I even run a small DNS server in 2 containers on both hosts so I don't need the external stuff, that updates automatically once hosts go down and also does some GeoIP resolution. Not complicated any more.
  • alxvio 10y ago
    Using DNS for HA is a lose-lose scenario. I'll take a proper load balancer backed with a cloud provider's superior network any day.
    • Mo3 10y ago
      Not if you use a low TTL. And no, I'd rather not have my traffic run or even terminate through every intelligence agency on the planet, even if that means accepting a few drops in the timeframe it takes to propagate.
      • alxvio 10y ago
        ... hence the lose-lose scenario. Having a low TTL just makes it your client's problem. If you want to be paranoid about the government, you can still use an L4 load balancer such as the one offered by GCP. Run your infrastructure however you want. This setup would never fly for a real organization.
• Mo3 10y ago
  Just to clarify, 150/month.