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Re: "Urgh, my capsule is down thanks to Oracle's free tier cloud..."
@sugar Sorry to hear that. If you only need a low-powered server, Google Cloud has a free e2-micro instance, which could easily host a gemini server. Compared to AWS, which also has a free tier, but needs a paid Route53 zone to connect a domain, Google is actually free. I used to use this a couple of years ago.
Jul 21 · 5 months ago
😺 blurrycat · Jul 21 at 23:34:
Fly.io also offers free shared compute, and I think it should be possible to host a Gemini capsule on it (I haven't completely looked into it, but it seems like custom ports are supported so I don't see why it wouldn't work). I might actually try this myself :)
Oh gosh thank you @michaelnordmeyer and @blurrycat, I'll definitely look at both of those! I didn't know Google had free, and aws suspended my account then permanently deleted it without an option for recovery? I don't know why, and I'm definitely not keen on making a new Amazon account
Thank you so much!
🍵 michaelnordmeyer · Jul 22 at 12:27:
@sugar You probably know this, but just in case: You can setup spending limits, which would also apply for traffic. If you set a limit for $0.10/M, you should be fine. I just looked at my old invoices and for whatever reason they billed me with $0.01 for "Network Internet Egress from Americas to China" for a couple of months.
😺 blurrycat · Jul 22 at 19:45:
So I got a simply Gemini server running on fly.io, it's not ideal as it's currently serving a static file baked into the container, but I think I might have a solution for that, to allow updating content without having to deploy the whole server again. Anyway, it seems to be working (although with IPv6-only given the free tier [apparently shared IPv4 addresses limit you to HTTP/HTTPS ports only, so I only allocated an IPv6 to my "app" as dedicated IPv4 are definitely not free]). Might be a solution after all!
sigh, so the option i didn't talk about was self-hosting. we do have a proxmox server, but it's almost entirely inhouse servers that we don't access from outside. So I just caved and set up a VM there and I'm back online, same address, same certificate:
Just slightly annoyed I have to punch more holes in my firewall 😪
Urgh, my capsule is down thanks to Oracle's free tier cloud service being jank as hell. Per [gemini link] alls I gotta do is rebuild the instance and I can use the same boot volume and stay within the free tier now that my trial is up. Except I'm getting: Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain AD-1. So now I gotta either wait until it's free, or destroy my boot volume (I have a local backup of the relevant dirs) and move to a new AD. I'm gonna go do...