Comment by 🚀 stack

I think it was mostly my ADHD. I followed a link from a very old reddit thread and was not paying attention.

Aug 28 · 4 months ago

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That sounds very possible. If it was any ad from the actual LowEndBox site in the last 30 days that would be wild. But something advertised years ago the price could be anything today.

I just tried to sign up with netcup (German), but received an email that I am required to verify my identity using a device with a camera. So much for this low-priced option.

DigitalOcean?

I thought I'd give Oracle a try -- tired of dicking around with unknown clowns. But oracle.com seems to be down for the last hour! They are aware of the issue, thank god.

Spent a couple of hours trying to set up an Oracle account. Between the server going down and being rejected for no real reason, tried 3 times. Now there is an open ticket and they will get back to me within 48 hours. Great. I really didn't want to deal with that ****hole, but a free tier got the better of me.

So now 3 random places have my credit card to be leaked at some future date, and I got absolutely nothing.

Just in case you're still shopping for a VPS....

I'm happy with my $2/mo RackNerd VPS. They have specials going on all the time like this 1 vCPU/1 GB RAM/20 GB SSD for $10.96/yr:

That should be way more than enough to run a small Gemini site, or even a small Web site if you care for that.

Original Post

Help: a minimal VPS Gemini server with CGI — I am considering getting an OVH VPS for $5/month to run a Gemini server. I have many questions, and appreciate your feedback. Which servers supports CGI and are minimal/easy to manage? Preferably written in C. Can I generate a certificate for Gemini or do I need to buy one somewhere? I would like to avoid registering a domain name and OVH gives you a permanent IP address. Is that workable? Anything else you can think of I should look into?