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SDF
2017.12.11
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Well, that didn't take long. In the beginning of December I decided
to resuscitate my colo'd server and spin up some VMs to host my
content (http, gopherhole, cloud storage). It only took a few weeks
to remember why I got out of the business of running my own servers
and am gladly paying others to maintain those for me.
It's not that I don't have enough knowledge or interest, but I get
bored very quickly and can't help wonder if I couldn't be spending my
time better doing something else.
So I decided to become a MetaARPA user at SDF and host my gopherhole
there. I could also use SDF to host my http content, but I'm still
not familiar enough with their virtual hosting setup. I'm giving
Neocities a try (also as a paying supporter) for the moment, they do
everything I need (static content hosting, IPv6 support, custom
domains, letsencrypt certs) - the only downside to using Neocities is
having to use Webdav to upload content, I'd rather use SFTP or SCP to
simplify the rollout configs on my end.
While moving across http hosting services around and keeping the same
custom domain is pretty easy, moving gopherholes is not so. I can't
keep my old hostname at the moment, I wish this was possible.