Just gonna toss it out there.  Asure isn't a bad little hosting
environment.  If you're running windows, most of the lockin discussion is
already moot.  4gb runs about $30/month.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:04 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I can't speak to the hosting side, but why not just get a windows license
> to feed the beast?
>
> I presume this is a windows server, if the hosting is cheap enough, might
> be worth just getting the license vs moving, but someone has to pay
> microsoft, and it's always going to be you one way or another.  The site I
> usually recommend gkeys24 has win server licenses too, so long as you're
> using something new enough they have, it was cheap enough at like $30 for a
> server 2022 license at least.
>
> Even at full cost, if that much of a dependency and pita to move, it might
> be worth the cost to toss it a license and be done.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I know this is going to make y’all cringe, but ... I need to find a
>> reliable, ethical, and inexpensive hosting VPS for a Windows back-end
>> service app I’m working on.
>>
>> I’ve been hosting at a place called VirMach that has both Win and Linux,
>> and it turns out they’ve been laoding up TRIAL licenses on their Windows
>> VPS machines. Mine is now shutting down every day since the trial period
>> expired, and they say it’s on me to fix it.
>>
>> Right now I don’t need a lot of resources. I have a web service that I’m
>> working on that still needs some work completed, but I’m getting close to
>> hitting my first major milestone.
>>
>> Anyway, I’m just wondering if anybody can recommend where to go for a
>> light-duty Win VPS host. If it can scale-up later, that would be great.
>>
>> I need 4GB of RAM because I’ve found anything less that that runs
>> horribly slow. The bandwidth isn’t that much, and the disk space isn’t
>> either. It’s more of a traffic cop: I’ve got a bunch of files cached on a
>> Linux host elsewhere, and this thing just runs a bunch of logic, talks to
>> 3rd-party services, and supports a simple database to say where to find
>> other resources.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -David Schwartz
>>
>>
>>
>>
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