{"id":445,"date":"2015-11-04T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2015-11-05T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:10:52","slug":"moved-to-digitalocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/moved-to-digitalocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Moved to DigitalOcean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After running my external web site and e-mail on a &#8220;webhotel&#8221; (at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louhi.fi\">www.louhi.fi<\/a>) for five years, I got fed up to the inflexibility of the solution and started to look for VPS (Virtual Private Server) options.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, a VPS was still quite expensive, but as the prices seem to have dropped, they are no longer much more expensive than webhotels. My colleague recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\">DigitalOcean<\/a> so I decided to give it a shot. At first glance, it looked perfect: the smallest VPS has 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD and 2 TB monthly traffic, static IPv4 and <strong>IPv6 address<\/strong>. Their web interface is very clean and efficient. Registering and setting up a Debian 8 &#8220;droplet&#8221; only took about two minutes. I got the root password by e-mail and was ready to SSH in. It seems extremely easy and user-friendly compared to e.g. Amazon. It is also much cheaper &#8211; just <strong>5 dollars per month<\/strong>. (For more dynamic setups, they offer an API and hour-based charging as well &#8211; so that you can e.g. create large Linux clusters on demand automatically from your own software.)<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I had saved the old configurations from the VPS I was running before the webhotel era, so I didn&#8217;t have to configure everything from scratch. After spending a couple of evenings with my laptop, I now have my e-mail (postfix, dovecot, sieve, spamassassin) and website (apache, wordpress) running 24\/7 in DigitalOcean&#8217;s data center in Amsterdam. I run automatic backups over SSH to my home server each night. I also moved rinta-aho.org DNS servers to DigitalOcean. They have a very neat web page to configure the DNS records and they don&#8217;t charge any extra for that.<\/p>\n<p>After a few weeks, I am very happy with the change. 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