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My current host is shutting down because their space is getting too expensive.

Anybody have recommendations for something cheap?

Things I want:

Dedicated server with IPMI (or a working serial console, I guess).
At least two ipv4s. Ipv6 hopefully.
Near Seattle.

I'm currently paying around $30/month. Need some ram, a cpu, and a hard drive or two, but it doesn't need to be good. I think I'm on dual Xeon L5430L5640, and dual 1TB spinners. My performance needs and usage are low, but I enjoy having the whole machine to myself.

I could maybe host from home, but it's against ToS and I do like having two ips, cause it makes it easier to host two websites with totally different stacks.
 
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IPMI means a physical server, will a VPS not work?

Also, you can host 2 websites with different stacks using a single IP, just use a reverse proxy infront to direct traffic to each site and done, and you can also do SSL offloading and tighter security this way and alleviate the load on the actual webserver hosting your site content.

Would DigtalOcean / OVH/Hetzner not do what you need?
 
MrGuvernment said:
IPMI means a physical server, will a VPS not work?

Also, you can host 2 websites with different stacks using a single IP, just use a reverse proxy infront to direct traffic to each site and done, and you can also do SSL offloading and tighter security this way and alleviate the load on the actual webserver hosting your site content.

Would DigtalOcean / OVH/Hetzner not do what you need?
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A VPS will work, but a dedicated server is more fun. I had a VPS at digital ocean, but they increased prices and dropped support for my OS (FreeBSD), so I found a cheap dedicated that was only 5x what the new price would have been, so I showed them! :p

Reverse proxy doesn't work in my specific case (or would be a *lot* more work) because I'm running a network diagnostic which needs to have access to the real tcp socket to the client. I check the effective mtu at the beginning of the request, then again after sending large data; if the mtu changes, the client sent mss is probably wrong but pmtud worked; if the mtu doesn't change and the client got the data, the client sent mss is correct; if the mtu doesn't change and the client gets small data but not big data, they have a big problem. Can't do that and share an IP with Apache without a lot of effort.

I don't need to save performance by offloading TLS. I didn't max out my tiny $6 digital ocean VPS... and I don't need some third party decrypting my super sweet website, thank you very much. :p I have run on box TLS termination in a separate process before, and it's useful when you have low trust in openssl, but adding an extra jump between processes isn't great for performance (although... approximately nobody goes to my website, so it doesn't really matter) ... and would have problems with my diagnostic site, if that ran on https.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Would DigtalOcean / OVH/Hetzner not do what you need?
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NameCrane is interesting because they have "crate" and "shared" plans. Apparently there is an upgrade path if one wants to begin cheaper and grow later, but I haven't confirmed it.
 
I ended up at https://serverstadium.com/ ... so essentially my server moved out of downtown and to the airport. Except it's a different server.

Supermicro with Dual Xeon L5640 -> to a Dell with Dual Xeon L5520. For about the same amount a month, and the new place says they own their datacenter so probably will be stable. New install was a bit tricky because their KVM doesn't do virtual media and I didn't want to pay $10 for them to hook up a USB with an installer image, and I have a weird setup, so I had to do a couple runs of let their network installer install something and then I use grub to load the installer image, then I wipe out the partition table and do my thing, hoping it boots properly afterwards. :p

Anyway, after all that, now I have 5 ips instead of 2, and native IPv6!
 
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