Hosting
Well, my ArkaHosting VPS instance finally actually went offline ( expected ). I have all the data online at home, but need a publicly accessible version for beta testing (don’t want to open that network to the world). Where to move to? Google seems to be indecisive (and has a history of growing bored with offerings and dropping them, chronicled at Killed by Google and elsewhere). Azure is Microsoft, and while this might be the new and improved Microsoft, I tend not to trust them. (Can’t imagine why .) There’s AWS, but, that’s, you know, Amazon (as also seen in Unfulfilled ). (Still on my personal boycott after they - for the umpteenth time - flaked on “guaranteed same day delivery” for stuff I really needed to tend to my dying dog.) Seeing what’s out there. For context, I was paying the (evidentially unsustainable) amount of $36.50/year, including a $1.50 upcharge for a 1 Gb/s link upgrade from the standard 100 Mb/s connection, for a “ 6GB VPS ” with the following specs: 4