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I quasi-moved off of Facebook several years ago, mostly because I could not block the ads. Now because it is from the US. So I really have no need for a Canadian alternative to the book of faces. I have a blog if I want to scream into the void, and I am not going to be served ads doing this. I can post pictures I can write stuff about whatever, future employers wont have to do all their sneaky poop to check me out on Facebook and see what my friends are like. With my Canadian host I have unlimited emails so now everyone is getting their own email address to send me stuff, let it be person, business, or service I was trying to get close to having this done with Apple’s hide my email service but now that I have cancelled that service I have been given the opportunity to do it even better. Sense I found out my ISP uses exchange for their email service I have been trying to get that address empty, I know Microsoft aint looking through those emails but it is still a Microsoft service.
Plus have you ever seen wild geese? The are fucking anngry assholes.
Hey, which Canadian host are you using? I'm in the market for one.
Not the person you asked, but I've had some luck with ovh. The web interface is a little jank, but it's super cheap for tiny a vps. Once you get ssh access it's like every other cloud provider. Not sure how their offerings for managed services is, since I run everything on vps (very small scale).
Next up I'd really like to try self-hosting, and cut out the cloud entirely.
Is OVH $4.67/mo? (source)
I'd be interested in a Canadian version of something like this, for $15 USD/yr: https://tinykvm.com/
I've been using it for a few years now and it's great for a few hobby web dev projects. I feel like ~$5/mo is a lot for something I just play with now and then and host a simple static site on, but ~$1/mo feels fine.
And +1 to the other person who responded about how self hosting email is too much work, I've heard that it's extremely difficult not to end up getting blocked, presumably because spammers significantly outnumber legitimate self hosters, and most people use one of the big email providers anyway. (I don't like this, I feel like email is very important and we deserve the right to self host it, but I don't know what can be done about it)
Yeah that looks about right. I went with their smallest Intel VPS because they had a big 12 month discount on those, so my $/mo is actually less than a toonie right now lol (sadly I don't think the discount is available anymore). Still it's a good deal, and as far as "the cloud" goes, I can see myself sticking with these guys for my humble needs.
I use them as a drop-in replacement for a Digitalocean (no complaints, but it's American, so), and while the UX is certainly a lot rougher with OVH I've been happy with them as far as cloud providers can go.
Thanks for the info. I typically self host everything, but I don't run an email server; too much work.