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A comment on Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter?.

Re:Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter? by nonrandomstring on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:08AM (#32080724)
> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a country where electricity won't be a problem.

Your house.

A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate.

Self-hosting is a learning curve, but don't listen to the pessimists who tell you it's "impossible". There are many examples, but my favourite it this one [1].

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter? by lakomen on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:56AM (#32081010)
Not everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.
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Re:Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter? by wsostt on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:45AM (#32081830)
DynDns can help overcome the static IP barrier. I've used this some years ago but can't vouch for its functionality today.

https://account.dyn.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter? by smaccona on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:40AM (#32084211)
They ceased their free service in 2014 and were acquired by Oracle in 2016[0]. Since then I have used DuckDNS[1] instead and it has worked well for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) [1] https://www.duckdns.org

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPS provider will survive the coming winter? by corymacd on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:13AM (#32083812)
Cloudflare Tunnels are free.
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