Comment by 🚀 SavaRocks
Re: "The host I was using (yesterweb cities) for my gemlog &…"
host it hourself with an old computer/laptop/raspberry pi ... that's how I do it
Feb 27 · 2 months ago
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🚀 lars_the_bear · Feb 27 at 08:12:
I've been with ctrl-c.club for several years, and never had a reason to complain. Of course, if loads of people started using it, I guess it would fall over.
Low-cost commercial VPS would be my next choice. It's pretty affordable with the kinds of resources you'd need to host a Gemini server.
While I'm drawn to the idea of self-hosting at home, I'm not sure Gemini servers are battle-hardened enough to risk exposing to the public Internet in my house. I'd be happy to be wrong about that.
I always think about self-hosting from home. But opening a machine to outside, poor service, and traveling a lot stop me. Also. can't remember router password.
+1 for ctrl-c.club. No CGI though, I think
🚀 lars_the_bear · Feb 27 at 16:00:
As it happens, reading this discussion has prompted me to look at VPS again. I hadn't realized how cheap these things were. £1 a month? Wow. So I'm moving.
Original Post
The host I was using (yesterweb cities) for my gemlog & such seems to have vanished... Luckily, I have a backup of my files in case such a thing happened, though I'm not sure what to do now. I'm about to email their contact that I found on the https site, but I'm still going to have to find somewhere else to host if I can't really trust that one... any recommendations? (Preferrably less technical, as per my limited knowledge in ssh and such... [and also tilde communities scare me])