You could also check out Scaleway, who offer a dedicated ARM server for 3 EUR/month. And DigitalOcean which offers simply priced VMs (starting at $5/month) targeted at individuals/developers rather than big organisations (in contrast to AWS). Haven't used Linode so not sure how these compare on price.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 at 13:29 Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: > * Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [170325 22:57]: > > Hello, > > > > In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old Gentoo > installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud so that I can go > travelling and access my mail from anywhere. > > > > I've never used VM's before, but my understanding is that they look just > like a normal machine to the users inside them, and there shouldn't be any > problem with me getting used to them. My current mail server is an old > 700mhz Pentium III (I think), so performance is unimportant. I guess VM's > have some kind of web or VNC console I can log into for the initial install > (and if I screw up remote access)? > > > > 1. Are these suppositions right? > > 2. Any recommendations for cheap / reliable hosting providers, please? > > > > I expect to use Gentoo because I've hardly used any other distro for > years, and find others less intuitive. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Stroller. > > Hi Stroller, > > I use Linode for my cloud web and email server. > > It was very easy to set up and has not had any downtime since it was set > up (a year or so ago.) > > I don't use the web gui for access much (generally only for DNS > management which they do well also.) > > Though I've used the lish console accessible from the GUI. > > I recommend them! > > Todd > >
