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[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 19:11:15 +0300
"E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> Slightly OT, but if I went for a VPS for my mail I'd probably want
> them to be outside of US jurisdition, are these?
> 

DigitalOcean lists on the bottom of their page that they're "Proudly
Made in NY" so I assume that their servers are physically located in
the USA.

> 
> 2014-06-08 19:00 GMT+03:00 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>:
> 
> >  On 08/06/14 14:39, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> >
> > Instead of getting a static IP and doing this at home, have you
> > considered renting a VPS?
> > For example at Digital Ocean you can get one for $5/month which is
> > not much more than
> > the 15 NIS / month that was mentioned here for static IP and it is
> > very easy to handle.
> >
> > Such server can do way more than just handling your e-mail.  I have
> > two "droplets" there.
> >
> >  https://www.digitalocean.com/
> >
> >  Gabor
> >
> >  and if you are in the mood, use my refcode to give me some credit
> >
> > https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=0d4cc75b3a74
> >

I have $10 credit there from a promotion from jupiterbroadcasting, and
I do like their pricing by the hour setup, but 20GB doesn't seem like a
lot.  Its plenty for me for git-annex, but I need to think of more
reasons to use it before i spin up my first droplet.

> >
> >  I personally use contabo (http://contabo.com/?show=vps). Their
> > cheapest plan is slightly more expensive (8Euro/month), but provide
> > oh so much more (comparing with the similarly priced plan at
> > digital ocean: 200GB storage vs. 30GB, 4GB memory vs. 1GB,
> > Unlimited traffic (so long as the average isn't over 20Mb/s) vs.
> > 2TB).
> >
> > To be fair, assuming completely uniform traffic distribution, that
> > last number translates to a bit over 6TB/month. Since no one's
> > traffic is really uniform, I think we can assume that the traffic
> > cap is, more or less, the same.
> >
> > I'd send a syndicated link, but I don't think they have such a
> > program. I have absolutely zero stake in whether you use their
> > service or not.
> >
> > Shachar
> >

The larger size sounds great, and with that much storage and ram
there's a lot more options for playing with.  Even if its not based in
the US I'd still prefer to encrypt it, since I wouldn't have sole
physical access to it.

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