[CALUG] Recommended remote linux hosting

[Keith]

Digital Ocean sounds like exactly what you need. If that's one that has
something that turns you off, I'd be curious what it is. Be aware, though,
that unlike Amazon and some other cloud hosting services, there's no
"firewall" or network gateway between you and the internet. You're out
there with all ports wide open when the instance first goes up. So, highly
recommend following their tutorials for turning on iptables and fail2ban
and changing default ports for things like ssh and possibly your vpns.

My referral link below will give you $10 free credit to try it out. They
offer an instance that's only $5 a month, so if you go with that one it's
two months free! I've been hosting my own website and irc client on that
same $5 instance for about a year now with zero issues. I also threw the
extra $1 in there for them to automatically back it up, so it's now $6 a
month.

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=71974e45e7fb
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-using-iptables-on-ubuntu-14-04

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Jason C. Miller <jason.c.miller at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey, all!  I'd like to set up a remote server for proxying and openvpn.
> Can somebody recommend a good hosting service?  I'm looking for someone who
> offers...
>
> 1. A remote linux instance (size/scale doesn't matter)
> 2. Shell/root administrative access to said instance
> 3. Fast, unlimited (or, *effectively* unlimited) bandwidth
> 4. Something that won't break the bank.  This comes out of my own pocket.
>
> I'm not as concerned about Memory, CPU, and disk.  If I could throw a
> Raspberry Pi in some remote server closet, I'd have happy.
>
> With the amount of travelling I do, I'd like to be able to maintain some
> kind of remote trusted gateway for myself, my laptop, and my phone/tablet.
> I've looked at lots of providers but there's usually something that turns
> me off enough to keep looking.  I'm looking for a diamond-in-the-rough if I
> can find one.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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