[Dxspider-support] Cloud hosting

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

I have been using http://www.linode.com/ for years. Full VM for as 
little as $10/mo. No blocked ports or services. Static IP addresses. 
Just about any OS or distro you like.

Mike, W1NR

On 08/05/2016 11:21 AM, Kelly Leavitt wrote:
> In an earlier email, Mike said:
>
>> But I DO want to get off my hosting service and get moved into Google's cloud.  That's in-progress.
>
>
> Right now, I host my server at home on an old relic of a dell desktop. I
> only ever have at most 20 connected users. I do store the spots in a
> small mySQL database (about 1 Gig) for historical search and a little
> web app that shows the most recent spots in a mobile friendly table.
> (just browse to http://dx.scarcnj.org to see the resulting table)
>
>
> What would the advantage be to moving to google hosting (other than
> reliability). I'm getting a monthly cost of about $30 to do everything I
> want on google cloud and I'm not sure that would support telnet access
> at that price. What other VM/Cloud hosting platforms do other sysops use
> and what machine model are you basing it on?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> and 73 de Kelly
>
> KB2SYD
>
>
>
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