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> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but if I can do it for
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not
vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but
if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a
country where electricity won't be a problem.
Your house.
A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel
and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate.
Self-hosting is a learning curve, but don't listen to the pessimists
who tell you it's "impossible". There are many examples, but my
favourite it this one [1].
[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
- lakomen 4y agoNot everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.
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- smaccona 4y agoThey ceased their free service in 2014 and were acquired by Oracle in 2016[0]. Since then I have used DuckDNS[1] instead and it has worked well for me. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) [1] https://www.duckdns.org https://www.duckdns.org
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