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diff --git a/blog/posts/renting_an_unremarkable_server/index.md b/blog/posts/renting_an_unremarkable_server/index.md index 117de85..e2be7a9 100644 --- a/blog/posts/renting_an_unremarkable_server/index.md +++ b/blog/posts/renting_an_unremarkable_server/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In researching alternative VPS options, I landed on OVH because they were the mo See what I mean? Of course, none of these seem like all that from the perspective of a modern personal computer, but this represents a *quadrupling* of CPU cores and RAM and a *sextupling* of storage space for a near halving of the price compared to my already adequate previous solution. That's like eight times the value! Though, looking at this table, you can already see a couple of the reasons it's priced so competitively, even accounting for the DigitalOcean tax. Let's break this down. -## The Ebay Optiplex gaming PC of rented servers +# The Ebay Optiplex gaming PC of rented servers So I've moved from a VPS to a dedicated server. The fundamental difference between them is that a VPS is a virtual machine that your hosting provider spins up for you, while a dedicated, or bare-metal, server is just a whole computer that you rent sole administrative privileges over. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ If you're the sort of person who memorizes server part numbers, you may have alr Financials aside, it should go without saying that this new-to-me server is *way* overkill for the handful of websites and single-user self-hostable network services I'll be running on it. The old VPS had plenty of computing power for that. The main draw for me was the extra storage space — I might have gone even cheaper, except all the cheaper options were restricted to network speeds that I actually felt uncomfortable limiting myself to. -## Migrating to the thang ding +# Migrating to the thang ding Of course, then there's the matter of actually migrating everything over. It went about as smoothly as you could reasonably expect. DigitalOcean, turns out, loves their vendor lock-in and won't let you download an image of your VPS directly, so it was a lot of making .tar.gz archives on the old server, downloading them over sftp, and then uploading them to the new server. |