@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-09-06 14:00:20
Cloud in a Bottle: your corner of the cloud.
Modern software lives in the cloud. Cloud in a Bottle gives you your own part of it: a server you control, with apps that install in one click.
☁️ #cloud
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-09-06 14:00:20
@joe@toot.works2026-08-13 21:28:45
I started looking at how much it would cost to move my VPS to DigitalOcean. When did their product page get that complicated? 
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-04 05:01:57
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-01 12:13:33
Oh, great. Just looked at Hetzner’s new pricing for VPS servers:
CPX22 (dedicated vCPU): €7.99 − €19.49 ( 143.8%)
So that’s fun. I guess one way to ensure the Small Web doesn’t happen is to make it prohibitively expensive for people to have their own servers.
(Before anyone mentions it, prices of single-board computers are also increasing and shipping hardware is an even bigger challenge.)
If anyone knows cheaper EU-based hosts, please leave a comment.
It’s so m…
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue2026-08-31 01:31:10
It appears I've successfully moved my instance to a new VPS... which is quite a bit cheaper than DO.
#MastoAdmin
@joe@toot.works2026-08-13 18:49:08
My web host for https://jws.app, https://photos.jws.app, and the VPS I use to develop the replacement for https://jws.dev has been down for 5-6 hours now.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-08-24 09:01:06
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-09-18 02:57:11
Content warning: Middle Management Kayfabe Theory 1/2
A name I just came up with
The org-chart version of Dead Internet Theory.
Most middle managers… don't really know what's going on "on the ground". They were once a jr mgr who didn't quite get it, so they're pretty sure that the other sr mgrs don't know what's going on either.
& they're pretty sure that *their* managers, the VPs & C-levels, are also doing their own kayfabe
& nobody is willing to name it, bc this nak…
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net2026-08-15 18:28:21
@… Alpine running on bare metal or cloud VPS is the backbone of my personal IT. 8 instances, two intermittent. They replaced my older SmartOS based setup.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-08-24 09:01:05
@luana@wetdry.world2026-07-24 17:44:37
I'm conflicted about what to do
- Codeberg would screaming "I'm anti-genAI" which is something I really want
- git.gay looks cool and fun and gay, which is also something I really want
- self hosting would give me full control over the server configuration
- sereia.gay is a cool domain, but it mostly only works in portuguese (where git.da.sereia.gay is cooler). git.luana.dev.br is also an option (and cheaper, aka less likely to stop being mine), specially if I can set up more than a single domain to point to forgejo, but it isn't as cool.
- even if I set up a mirror, I'm undecided about whether to point it to codeberg or git.gay. Three-way sounds kinda abusive, idk?
- while I know forgejo is pretty lightweight, I'm concerned about having too much access in my NAS. Specially if I end up being ddossed by llms or if I ever do something people like. I have plenty of RAM from before the bubble, and it's modern but it's not the highest-end CPU out there. I'd also have to set up a reverse proxy, probably more reliable than my current oracle free tier one.
- I could get a VPS for the forgejo tho! Ive been wanting to get one anyway! (tho it would need a static ipv4)
- Tho, keeping it self hosted on my NAS would give me git push/pull even when offline!!
- Even if I keep a three-way mirror, which I might, I still need to choose a canon one to send links!
- Is it ok to accept PRs and stuff from either mirrors or do you need all but one of them to be read-only?
@joe@toot.works2026-08-30 15:55:20
... This summer, I got a good deal on a m3-based iPad Air and I have been working on building a workflow using Textastic, a VPN, and a VPS (sitting in a data center). I want to plug this Mac Mini into that and see what I can do.
@luana@wetdry.world2026-09-17 17:13:17
Ugh, shouldn't nginx streams work for minecraft servers?
I wanna do a [public domain in a free vps] -> [Velocity server in my NAS] -> [Minecraft server]
But I can't seem to get that to work...
Connecting directly to Velocity from Tailscale (including with a special local only domain in custom DNS) works, but the public address via nginx doesn't :(
@luana@wetdry.world2026-09-17 21:52:19
Hmmm, it works for java which is big progress already!!
But trying to use this on bedrock with Geyser still crashes bedrock when connecting via the VPS (direct tailscale ip to NAS works...)