On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 19:11:15 +0300 "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> Slightly OT, but if I went for a VPS for my mail I'd probably want > them to be outside of US jurisdition, are these? > DigitalOcean lists on the bottom of their page that they're "Proudly Made in NY" so I assume that their servers are physically located in the USA. > > 2014-06-08 19:00 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>: > > > On 08/06/14 14:39, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > > > Instead of getting a static IP and doing this at home, have you > > considered renting a VPS? > > For example at Digital Ocean you can get one for $5/month which is > > not much more than > > the 15 NIS / month that was mentioned here for static IP and it is > > very easy to handle. > > > > Such server can do way more than just handling your e-mail. I have > > two "droplets" there. > > > > https://www.digitalocean.com/ > > > > Gabor > > > > and if you are in the mood, use my refcode to give me some credit > > > > https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=0d4cc75b3a74 > > I have $10 credit there from a promotion from jupiterbroadcasting, and I do like their pricing by the hour setup, but 20GB doesn't seem like a lot. Its plenty for me for git-annex, but I need to think of more reasons to use it before i spin up my first droplet. > > > > I personally use contabo (http://contabo.com/?show=vps). Their > > cheapest plan is slightly more expensive (8Euro/month), but provide > > oh so much more (comparing with the similarly priced plan at > > digital ocean: 200GB storage vs. 30GB, 4GB memory vs. 1GB, > > Unlimited traffic (so long as the average isn't over 20Mb/s) vs. > > 2TB). > > > > To be fair, assuming completely uniform traffic distribution, that > > last number translates to a bit over 6TB/month. Since no one's > > traffic is really uniform, I think we can assume that the traffic > > cap is, more or less, the same. > > > > I'd send a syndicated link, but I don't think they have such a > > program. I have absolutely zero stake in whether you use their > > service or not. > > > > Shachar > > The larger size sounds great, and with that much storage and ram there's a lot more options for playing with. Even if its not based in the US I'd still prefer to encrypt it, since I wouldn't have sole physical access to it. -- Efraim Flashner efraim.flash...@gmail.com 4096R/CA3D8351 created: 2013-10-08 GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351
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