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I've been running a Nextcloud instance on DreamCompute, mainly because I already have my web hosting with them. But DreamHost's cloud computing hasn't been as solid as their managed VPS service. Plus the datacenter is on the other side of the continent. It's kind of ridiculous that my to-do list has to cover more miles than the Oregon Trail whenever I check something off. I've been thinking about moving it entirely onto my home Raspberry Pi, which would be great for home access, but I'm not ready to open up my home router just yet.
So I figured I could at least check out a dedicated cloud provider. While trying out Linode, Digital Ocean, and Vultr, I also asked for recommendations, which came back almost entirely in favor of Linode. Since I was leaning that way already, it was an easy choice.
Eventually I'll either sort out the LAN security for hosting it at home, or I'll get familiar enough with Alpine Linux to set up a manual Nextcloud instance I can fine-tune. For now, the snap package on Ubuntu made it super-easy to migrate it to a Linode. Essentially:
Useful thread: Migrate a Nextcloud Snap installation
I'm keeping my websites and Gemini capsule at DreamHost because their VPS has been rock-solid. Plus it strikes the perfect balance between being able to customize it without having to maintain it.
But now that I'm set up on more providers, I'm thinking of moving the rest of my remote storage off of Amazon S3. I may keep some of it at DreamObjects, but I also have some website static files on there, and Digital Ocean looks like it might be a good bet for those because they offer a CDN on top of their object storage. And more datacenter locations, too.
But that's a project for another day.
by Kelson Vibber, December 19, 2021
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