We found some alternatives to contabo.com where we host our servers. Contabo is a cunt, to put it simply, forcing us recently to remove perfectly legal links and such. By the end of this year or beginning of the next we should start the move from contabo to another hosting. I'd like not to....but I am forced to. One particular provider seems quite good and a bit cheaper, we could expand our disk-space for trom.tf.
I am concerned with how to move it all when it comes to friendica or matrix....their databases are immense.....but will see when the time comes.
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Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh
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Tio
in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • •This is their justification social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…
idk how that would be....we need to try...
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in reply to FlokiNET • •Sounds great, however I looked at the prices and are quite high. To give you an example we pay some 32 euros a month currently for a 10 core cpu, 2TB of SSD, 1 GB connection and 64GB of RAM. We need a lot of disckspace since we provide a lot of free services via trom.tf. And we use some 30-40GB of RAM usually.
I'd love to use a hosting provider like you, but unfortunately I cannot afford right now... :(
FlokiNET
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in reply to FlokiNET • • •Sounds good to me; cost isn't the *only* factor.
Do you provide any API access to management services? One thing Contabo is doing well is their cli tool for management. Even if there's no tool, having an API to script against is nice.
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in reply to FlokiNET • • •The Contabo APIs allow you to provision, restart, etc, servers. They're adding DNS management (a big one, for me), vital for PTR, TXT etc if you're managing an email server. It's those sorts of interactions I'd really rather manage from a cli than a web interface.
Does the ssh solution help me here?
FlokiNET
in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • • •DNS is related towards your domain provider (except ptr however you set that only once realy no need for an api) and not your hosting (unless you operate it together)
For DNS entry we have an API (cpanel)
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Tio
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in reply to Tio • • •Do they apply German laws everywhere? They're a German company, I know, but they also have servers in other places. It sounds like *any* company you host with, if the server is in DE you can't host nitter there.
My point: would a simple solution being to have your Contabo instance moved to another country?
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Tio
in reply to Ruaidhrigh Featherstonehaugh • •No, I asked. They said same rules apply....
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