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Personally I use lightsail on AWS and cloudflare cause there is always an off ramp to try some of the fancy stuff but then you can always go back to just using
by faizshah 2y ago
Personally I use lightsail on AWS and cloudflare cause there is always an off ramp to try some of the fancy stuff but then you can always go back to just using cheap VMs behind cloudflare. You can also put it all behind a VPC and you can use CDK/CloudFormation so that’s also nice.
I gave up on using GCP even though the products like BigQuery are way better just because I got burned too many times like with the Google Domains -> Squarespace transition.
I’m thinking of switching back to a bare metal provider now like Vultr or DO (would love to know what people are using these days I haven’t used bare metal providers since ~2012).
Also, completely unrelated does anyone know what the best scraping proxy is these days for side projects (data journalism, archiving etc.)?
- choilive 2y agoBeen using OVH for bare metal for a few years now and no major hiccups other than scheduled maintenance.
- wahnfrieden 2y agoOVH VPS in Canada is also a great deal
- smatija 2y agoHetzner is good to me, but I am EU based. Loving that German logic that even emergency maintenace has 2-week notification.
- bingo-bongo 2y agoBut.. that’s just maintenance?
- smatija 2y agoI think they define emergency a bit more widely than we are used to with other providers. For urgent change of router I was notified almost 2 months in advance. For "real" unplaned emergencies I had in total like 5min of downtime last year, when some other router died.