Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:13:05 BST Stroller wrote: > > On 18 Aug 2017, at 13:28, Todd Goodman wrote: > > You'll need to look into the free tier to be sure. You can always set > > alerts to email you if you're getting close to getting charged. > Thanks for your help. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-18 Thread Stroller
> On 18 Aug 2017, at 13:28, Todd Goodman wrote: > >> Many thanks, that's very helpful. >> >> So AWS instances work like any other VM? I can ssh into them, install >> packages on them and so on? >> … > > Yes, you can ssh in to them as usual (assuming you have allowed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-18 Thread Todd Goodman
On 8/17/2017 6:05 PM, Stroller wrote: On 17 Aug 2017, at 12:40, Todd Goodman wrote: I use AWS instances extensively at work and they have been incredibly reliable and after initially learning the tools they're very convenient to manage (IMNHO of course.) I've used the

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-17 Thread Stroller
> On 17 Aug 2017, at 12:40, Todd Goodman wrote: > > I use AWS instances extensively at work and they have been incredibly > reliable and after initially learning the tools they're very convenient to > manage (IMNHO of course.) > > I've used the AWS free tier EC2 to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-17 Thread Todd Goodman
On 8/16/2017 6:00 PM, Stroller wrote: On 26 Mar 2017, at 03:57, Stroller wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-08-16 Thread Stroller
> On 26 Mar 2017, at 03:57, Stroller wrote: > > 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. A few months ago

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-29 Thread Stroller
> On 29 Mar 2017, at 06:43, Arthur Țițeică wrote: >> >> €5 a month seems an ideal price, but I can probably afford a little >> more. > > Dedibox/Online has real hardware (dedicated servers) for 15 or 30€ on the > personal range. The more expensive one has 2 SSDs for

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-28 Thread Arthur Țițeică
În 29 martie 2017 07:33:54 EEST, Stroller a scris: > >> On 28 Mar 2017, at 13:41, Alarig Le Lay wrote: >> >> 2. What is cheap for you? I’m part of a non for profit association >that >> rent VMs at 5 € per month for 32G of hard drive, one

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-28 Thread Stroller
> On 28 Mar 2017, at 13:41, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > 2. What is cheap for you? I’m part of a non for profit association that > rent VMs at 5 € per month for 32G of hard drive, one vCPU and 512M of > RAM. https://grifon.fr/services.html Many thanks for all the replies to

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 26 mars 03:57:00 2017, Stroller wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On March 26, 2017 4:57:00 AM GMT+02:00, Stroller wrote: >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. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On March 26, 2017 4:57:00 AM GMT+02:00, Stroller wrote: >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. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-26 Thread Alex Thorne
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-26 Thread Todd Goodman
* Stroller [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

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-25 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
Linode just updated their gentoo image, it works out of the box (I failed to get the previous version to work, but if I had been willing to put a week into getting it working, as with most things Gentoo, probably no problem). Their 1024 (I think) VM should be able to do way more than your in

[gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-25 Thread Stroller
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