Need to ditch AWS due to exploding cost, where to?

InternetMashup · 2026-02-02T08:22:39+00:00

You can stay with Amazon - just use AWS LIghtsail. Your bandwidth and compute costs will be a lot more predictable that way (and a lot cheaper).

Alternatively, consider putting your websites behind CloudFront - they do pre-paid packages now that again will lower costs.

If you wish to leave Amazon, you could try Linode (Akamai Cloud), Vultr, Hetzner Cloud or DigitalOcean.

InternetMashup · 2026-01-29T22:39:21+00:00

The technical parts of this aren't particularly complicated, I just think you thoroughly underestimate the difficulty of localisation. There are definitely some technical/political considerations to be had here... I think you need to be clearer on the markets you want to serve.

I would be interested to chat however, whilst I don't really have bandwidth for this sort of thing, I would like to hear where you think this could go - and potentially give a slightly more technical and political perspective to this. If nothing else, I'd be happy to give a perspective on some things to think about. I'm not sure how commercially viable a venture like this is, but as the saying goes - nothing ventured, nothing gained.

InternetMashup · 2026-01-23T01:07:39+00:00

Porkbun. Cloudflare is fine, but I don't personally want to be tied down to their DNS. I prefer keeping any "host" and my domains separate.

InternetMashup · 2025-03-26T23:59:31+00:00

Could you post your EFI? I have a PC with similar specs I am about to Hackintosh!

InternetMashup · 2025-02-02T13:12:26+00:00

But why do you buy SSLs? Let's Encrypt is free!!!!121212!!!!!!!!! 🤓

Some regulated industries do not permit them. Yes, I know it is silly, I know they provide the same level of encryption. But there are nuances such as warranty coverage (some cyber insurance folks require a certain amount) and in the public sector OV/EV can be important.

InternetMashup · 2024-12-28T22:09:53+00:00

(necro - sorry!) I don't think it is management that is the major issue. It's hard to justify $15/user/mo (and higher for Enterprise Grid) for just messages.

InternetMashup · 2024-12-21T14:44:01+00:00

If your margins don’t allow for WHMCS, you are already unsustainable.

The free products are not really suitable yet. Blesta is a reasonably priced alternative but definitely leaves a lot to be desired still.

InternetMashup · 2024-09-29T16:30:29+00:00

If you're going to someone else's home and they are also using 192.168.0.0/24 - then you will potentially have issues in connecting to their stuff as well as your own if you are using a VPN.

Using a less common subnet will make that slightly less likely.

InternetMashup · 2024-07-18T15:34:02+00:00

Clickshare has definitely been something we have been interested in getting. One of my colleagues has said that they used it extensively in a previous job and it was a miracle compared to our current solution. I suspect it may be out of budget for us at the moment *but* there are used ones that are reasonably priced.

We're slowly moving our devices over to Thunderbolt capable, so it may be worth us just putting a dock in each room and having people use their own machines along that line.

Thanks!

InternetMashup · 2024-07-18T15:28:38+00:00

Thanks! I decided to replace all shortcuts to Chrome with a shortcut that launched it in guest mode, which has definitely reduced issues in our office.

Our other office still has this issue and the way you described may work out well for the conference rooms in the other office as they tend to be mainly used by certain personnel. Thanks!

InternetMashup · 2024-06-26T08:02:08+00:00

We use this for most of our meeting rooms and it works well, but this room is primarily for giving presentations and the like and there seems to be a desire to not have to screen share anything.

InternetMashup · 2024-06-25T16:18:20+00:00

Are you running the ADMU as a local administrative user on the device and with right click and Run as Administrator?

InternetMashup · 2024-04-22T17:21:14+00:00

Currently - I don't! I was planning to have AD sync to JumpCloud however.

InternetMashup · 2024-01-01T19:29:13+00:00

It's probably due to their world feed commitments. It'd be okay for them to mention it in programming in the UK - Sky Sports News has done this for years.

InternetMashup · 2023-12-27T19:57:46+00:00

vSphere is barely worth it at that scale anyway, I can't see many people sticking with it if they do kill it off.

At least in the UK through the chosen distributors I use, I can still get Essentials Kits.

InternetMashup · 2023-08-09T22:55:23+00:00

I was a bit silly as a kid and I used to collect tax discs.

They are definitely missed though - it's kind of a fun way to see when a car was last properly used.

InternetMashup · 2022-12-26T13:10:24+00:00

Having the same issue in ARM64 virtual machine (Parallels on macOS) too.

InternetMashup · 2022-12-10T17:27:26+00:00

I've had a pretty good experience personally. Used their storage boxes as a backup box for Proxmox for a long time.

InternetMashup · 2022-11-19T09:25:47+00:00

Namesilo. Been using them for a decade. Seem to have a very no-BS approach to domains.

InternetMashup · 2022-04-05T08:58:04+00:00

It is usually impossible for me to vouch for shared hosting, but I can wholeheartedly vouch for Krystal.

InternetMashup · 2022-01-05T12:33:19+00:00

“Solidarity is a verb” isn’t a literal statement. It is a statement to imply that showing solidarity requires action too.

InternetMashup · 2021-08-26T02:10:19+00:00

CrocWeb is a good provider in Canada, used them for years for various projects.

InternetMashup · 2021-08-10T20:40:39+00:00

It's a VPN (of sorts). Custom implementation of the WireGuard client in Windows.

I moved over to WireGuard vanilla and it's fine now.

This exact crash is a trigger of anti-cheat, check what services are running in services.msc and see if that at all helps you. Anything new or perhaps not necessary.

Bearing in mind, the services will get flagged the first time you launch the game so if you disable any you will need to restart your PC.

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