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FOMO is late to the party. We've had the term "kiasu" (怕输 in 闽南语) for decades. I now think it is crazy to spend the time looking for all these deals because I might have achieved VPS nirvana realization: what I need is not much, but what I want is too much (需要的不多,想要的太多)
I am mostly happy with my Ryzen VPS that does all that I need now and in the foreseeable future.
Per year:
yoursunny.com
domain at Cloudflare, $8.03yoursunny.cn
domain at ename, ¥60 (about $9)I don’t buy any hosting service monthly.
I see a few people have decent Plex servers...
Some Static websites - S3 hosting - arond 5-6$/month
Storage VPS - Nextcloud - 24$/year from @seriesn
Mails - 10$/year - from mxroute
Reseller Hosting - 30$/month
Domains - around 300$/year (Mostly due to costly TLD's
Idling VPS - Most of them are paid annually - if monthly average, about $30 per month
Started domain collections yesterday - bought 6. I am afraid it is even more tempting than vps...... I need to control my hand....
After vote, counting my collections, i still have no idea how can i reduce the numbers
So leave it since most of them paid yearly and "plan" to not watch any sales in 2021
im about USD50 per month
hosting
Annual cost last year: $61.95
Annual cost now: $53.88
vps5 and vps9 are to be canceled by Black Friday.
domains
yoursunny.com
@NetDynamics24 $6yoursunny.cn
eName ¥60 (about $9)ndn.today
Porkbun $14.89yoursunny.dev
Porkbun $11.18These prices are annual price of the last payment.
ndn.today
subdomains serve my projects related to Named Data Networking. It's added for branding reason.yoursunny.dev
subdomains serve my projects unrelated to NDN. I don't use*.yoursunny.com
for technical reason: cookies would overlap and cause unnecessary overhead.Careful. Once you start using a domain and others start making links, it's difficult to justify canceling the domain because it would break the links and disappoint the potential readers.
I wanted to cancel
yoursunny.cn
but Analytics says otherwise.However, it's difficult to transfer
.cn
domains and I have to rely on my father to make payments, so I'm afraid I'll eventually lose this domain.I don't like that.
You know, you can decrease the
to $45.00.
My hope for BF2021 - I can be as organized as you are
Possible to bring .cn to a western registrar?
I don't create websites on collection all of them are on parking pages.
As a hosting provider, my credit card cries on a monthly basis.
I intend to cancel vps5 (384MB 22GB) and move the services to vps1 (1920MB 45GB).
vps1 costs 2.22x but has 5x RAM.
I'm thinking to rename some boxes so that I can have double capacity.
Two schemes are under consideration:
free vs paid
NAT vs non-NAT
Transferring
.cn
to registrars that accept USD payments is possible but renewal fee costs double.yoursunny.cn
currently expires on 2022-10-07. I probably should delete it by then and forget about it.I had
65536.cn
andiloveu4ever.cn
andopenxml.asia
andext.so
but nobody wanted to buy them.These are great ideas. Not a bad things to expand. But I have a question - would you mind sharing how you can get 10 free boxes? I know some providers like oracle do offer such, but I can't count 10.
Perhaps keep it with Chinese registrar then? I guess you can use some e-payment gateways, like Alipay / Wechat pay? If you have kept it for some time, it would be sad to let it go - unless the maintenance cost is unbearable, which I think not the case here
Is it because .cn can only be sold to individuals/entities in China?
If you Paypal wallet smiles, then okie
15 VMs with 27TB of storage...$85.85 a month
I could drop a couple of those (and lose about 12TB of storage) and drop the bill in half. Still, I'm only paying about $3.17/TB/mo. However, in reality I mirror everything over two unrelated hosts, so it's more like 13.5TB of storage at $6.34/TB/mo.
Plus a couple shared reseller accounts because I can't be bothered to admin my friends/family's crappy web pages.
150€/m on hetzner, 50€/m to SoYouStart, 10€/m to online.net, 30€/m to BuyVM, 17€/m to Google. 10€/m to ExtraVM. 120€/year for TS3 lisence. 10€/m for 2x quickbox lisences.
A bit too much.. Im looking to lower the costs.. Someday? lol
very deep pocket sir
What about the $999 Virmach one?
The $999 has been canceled.
Not every slot needs to be occupied. It's OK to keep open slots.
I don't have Alipay myself and have to rely on my father. The procedure is:
There's no "fraud check" nonsense even if order and payment are in different countries.
yoursunny.cn
was created in 2007, so it's more than "some time".Foreign entities are allowed to have
.cn
.However, since China can cut off the domain if there's objectionable content,
.cn
doesn't have a good reputation.I registered
65536.cn
in 2006 and deleted it in 2013.The registrar didn't actually delete it, but transferred it to an investor. It has been on parking page for the past 7 years.
Why cancel a non-refundable annual purchase 11 months early?
Surely, that wasn't a bot purchase, right?
I have only started having Alipay 1 or 2 week ago. In general, it works fine so far. I understand you live in the US. Is it the reason why you are hesitant in using it?
Then definitely good to keep it. Maybe add a personal mailbox for communication with Chinese entities?
May I ask what the meaning of 65536 is? I am sure it has value otherwise the investor would not have bought it.
2^16, two bytes, unsigned int ...
Got it Thanks.
I have never passed Maths since junior high school so I am very insensitive to numbers
As you know, I can only have 10 boxes under the current naming scheme. I canceled the $999 just before Christmas, so that I can get @MaxKVM LUMPOFCOAL.
Yes, 65536 means 2^16. These numbers make sense to me. I also had a phone number ending with
2048
because it's 2^11.I registered
65536.cn
domain in 2007 with the ambitious plan of writing 65536 computer and networking techniques, but only wrote one in a year.In 2008-2009 it briefly became my portfolio / blog; this was also my only attempt on self-hosted WordPress, with
?p=
URIs.At the same time, subdomains were loaned to classmates for their class projects.
In 2010, I merged everything into https://yoursunny.com/ domain.
3 years later, I deleted
65536.cn
.Now,
yoursunny.cn
was merged into https://yoursunny.com/ in 2017.Thus, it wouldn't be too bad to delete
yoursunny.cn
in 2022.54€/mo. For each euro I do 1 push-up each morning. I desperately avoid adding new servers...
If we're talking infrastructure, probably closer to $125/month. I have a community and I front nearly the entire payment for those servers. I justify it to my wife "career development" and "continual improvement". It makes it a little more palatable to pay that way.
Just only about 50Eur.
I launder 6 million Kazakhstani tenges from potassium sales every month.
Wow, it's a U
Some spend little while some spend quite much.
I don't have enough fingers to count how many Linux ISOs can fit in that