self-hosting – asty.org

The IPs they are a changin’

Posted on December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 by chrisa

Just a quick note that the IPs for asty.org and associated systems will be changing, as I’m finally moving my OVH Proxmox setup to the good old US of A, after my system in Canada dutifully performed excellently. Again I highly recommend them for anyone looking for self-hosting of any non-trivial services.

Personally I haven’t had as much time to write as I’ve been contracting, and it’s important to be able to justify all the work you’re doing when you present those invoices. But I’m hoping to find something permanent in systems administration or analysis. Keep in touch if you want more updates, I’m not the kind of person to vomit up details on social media so people can passively …

Watching my revenue crater due to IP changes, and hosting company policies.

Posted on September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 by chrisa

Apparently making your AdSense earnings crater is as simple as changing your IP address for your site. Wheee!

For those interested, I used to have a shared VM and did some hosting for my sis in law’s WordPress instance. Which is fine, but in the last few days she was soliciting help from someone on Fiverr to add some things to her website, and they apparently tried to install a backdoor on her site – I believe unsuccessfully – but it was enough for me. That was all the incentive I needed to split the sites onto different VMs, and ensure nothing we did affected the other. But now my earnings are in the toity, since in doing this the …