I don't need another, but it's still kind of tempting...
€3.35 / month
2 vCPU Cores
4 GB RAM
50 GB NVMe or 100 GB SSD
That will do for any personal need.
contabo.
@gemlog
Does it come with a dedicated IPv4 address?🤔
Maybe it's time to ditch Proton and self-host my e-mail?
@m0xee Of course. Maybe an ipv6 one too, but dedicated ipv4 for sure.
Do it alongside proton. Have two emails.
Well, given that it's your server, you'd have a possible thousands of email addresses ;-)
@gemlog
Yep, sure, I'm keeping my addresses on Proton domains — protonmail.ch and others, but I'm thinking of switching to self-hosting for my own ones: m0xEE.Net .Org and .Com
I'll look into Contabo, thank you!
@m0xee For the past couple of years (2 I think?), I haven't even been configuring my own postfix, for which I have *extensive* notes for each time. Instead, I've been using yunohost to do it for me and it's very painless.
@gemlog
Did you ever try DeltaChat — the thing that adds an IM-like interface to e-mail?
They have developed a set of scripts to help people self-host e-mail serviced compatible with it: https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail
They expect the distro of your VPS to be systemd-based so I probably won't be able to use it as is, but essentially, they are just deploying dovecot and postfix and I intend to do something similar.
@m0xee I haven't tried it - not sure who I'd have to play with frankly. The default install of debian with yunohost is dovecot/postfix/systemd. It's just a script you use on a new box. Then it whinges until you get all your dns/dkim ducks in a row, which is nice. Takes less than about 45 minutes to have a click and drool secured server.
@gemlog
Sounds nice! I'll check it out too — thanks again!
@m0xee You're welcome! Did you work today? We have snow now - just in time for harvest, which just makes the trees heavy to drag and difficult to bundle. I'll be starting in an hour or so. It's still morning my time.
@gemlog
Nah! I'm currently unemployed and living in the city I don't have to go out much — unless I do it on my own volition. It's only raining here — it did snow a couple of times, but it fails to stick yet. This type of weather: neither raining, nor snowing, nor clear — botches my sleep schedule and I'm in this permanent state of half-asleep half-awake — not great, but I'll be fine.
Good luck with your routine!
@m0xee Oh, I'm fine. My 'routine' is not to work in the winter! :-)
I get laid off from the Christmass tree farm every December 23 and don't go back until after break-up to plant new ones and prune old ones and then I'm laid off again for most of the summer. I've taken on another seasonal job too with a landscape company. More physical work - unless they have an IT problem and then they call me off the job into the office ;-)
Except for harvest time, both jobs are very flexible.
I am thinking of adding back in some kind of ... something with IT or devops or coding or... IDK, but I need some of that back in my life. Mind you, at my age, it's better for me to be mostly outdoors working than back being a 14hr/day keyboard jockey! :-)
@gemlog
Yeah, I totally like your approach — computers are fun, but once you start doing that all day everyday, eventually you start hating it — at least that's how I usually ended up with: having a good job and making good money, but burning out — and taking to take an extensive break, which I could afford. It's fun, but I don't think this can go on indefinitely.
Being able to work outdoors, doing physical work, is good — but it's hard to maintain proper balance once you get a desk job.
@m0xee I only ever had my own desk for a desk job. I had 30-odd websites. But also 30-something local IT clients. And hardware service calls installing and repairing all business machines, photocopiers etc., bank machines, cable modems, debit machines, alarms, phones, cameras... whatever. I'm a tech slut! :-)
I don't need more antennae masts or pulling wire really. I have enough exercise these days. I think I need to get back to devops. I don't know really... I'm old! I used to repair every kind of typewriter and did board repairs on dictaphones ffs :-)
I need to think, because I might need to work from Wales as well as canada.
It seems that we both face choices about which country we will work in.