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Fed Up with DigitalOcean (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I selfhost a number of servers in various locations and utilize a DigitalOcean VPS as a hub/gateway to transmit data between these nodes.

I have a consistent issue when running large backups or transfers in which DigitalOcean flags my server for a DDOS attack and sends traffic to a black hole for 3-4 hours.

Customer support has been the absolute worst and does fuck all to help remedy the situation in any way. These events have been consistent over the past 8 months.

Does anybody have recommendations for a solid VPS provider?

Price isn’t too much of a factor. I was running a $8/month server but I don’t mind something more expensive if the company has a good reputation for reliability and privacy.

As mentioned, I primarily use a VPS as a gateway/hub for file transfer services. I’m also hoping to spin up another VPS for static websites.

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[+] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Funny you mention that. I was about to make a post about Nebula earlier. I learned about it through YouTuber apalrd a few months back and it seems perfect. I’m still trying to understand some of the complexities when utilizing a service that requires circumventing the mesh network for public access such as Nextcloud. I’ll probably make a post about this after I’ve done some more research. I think there’s some good discussion to be had about such a setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This honestly sounds like the best solution to this particular problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried to set up a nebula network but it seems like it has trouble when your hosts are behind a VPN service. The VPN must block the port or protocol the lighthouse is connecting with and I can't figure out a way to bypass the VPN (at least on Mac split tunneling isn't supported). I'm assuming you're familiar with mesh networks...do you have any good youtube videos or resources you would recommend? The nice thing about VPN is it's crazy simple to set up and seems to work with all types of system configurations. Nebula was pretty simple but seems like a pain to troubleshoot so far.