Geeking has been minimal. My efforts and concentration has been directed at my place of work, where we’ve hired a new technician replacing one who left earlier, gone through a staff buy-out, and relocated.
But as of late, I’ve found my amazon charges creeping up, especially since some of my first-year discounts have expired. So I’ve bought a new Virtual Private Server for 12 months, got 40GB SSD, 1 core, 4GB RAM (yup, 4GB) to host my site, my nextcloud, my experiments. And it’s on 18.04 Ubuntu, none of this 16.04 of yesteryear (or the year before yesteryear).
I’m pleased with my 4GB of RAM. On Amazon, I launched another instance with 2GB for an experiment with a web-app for a few days and it struggled to run the web app under certain circumstanced, ground to a halt and free RAM evaporated. The cost of running that extra instance is quite high compared to my new VPS.
Cost £60 + VAT.
So far, this blog is the only thing I’ve moved. Though I did a dry run by moving it to xfer.digitaltinker.co.uk (now no longer a site).