For fuck’s sake.

[david@davidpeach.me]

For fuck’s sake.

Digital Ocean have joined the other numbskulls and have given a bunch of money to the Fascist-ware set of dotfiles that it omarchy.

Millions for a set of configs on top of Arch Linux.

Now I need to find an alternative.

For those not sure why people are jumping ship from people who are supporting dhh’s config files, here’s one of them: “as i remember london by dhh“

So I turn to AskFedi first for any recommendations for alternatives.

[firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net]

@david

I hope you get other recommendations, but from a statistical sample of one:

I used Ramnode for a few years without issue, but I only had one cheap VM. They were bought by Inmotion.

To my knowledge, neither is especially evil. But I haven't done extensive research.

I'll be moving my lone DigitalOcean VM to Ramnode within a week or two.

[david@davidpeach.me]

@kevinrns The link is there for people who think “why do people hate this guy etc”. Those who are not aware. It is obviously not an endorsement.

[jantzen@mas.to]

@david pretty happy with my Fedora/Wayland/Niri setup.

https://youtu.be/7XmD5UyyhZQ

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@jantzen @david An alternative to their host Digital Ocean, not to their distro.

[brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org]

@david@davidpeach.me what do you need to run on it and where are your users? i have a supercheap vps on openbsd.amsterdam. its fine for mailserver, single user fediserver, webserver. previously i used ransomit which was always reliable, servers in asia and australia.

[two9a@hachyderm.io]

@david I've been recommending Mythic Beasts, who've been great since I migrated a VPS from docean six months ago. They're also here on the Fedi as @beasts so that's a point in their favour.

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@david I've been using Vultr for almost a decade, and am mostly happy with them. I haven't audited them for fascism-adjacency, however. It would be a major pain to migrate because of the mail server IP reputation I built on it.