Tim: >>> I keep meaning to change hosts, but finding someone else who actually >>> says they use Apache (in my country) and doesn't have the worst website >>> to navigate to look at features versus price, is a pain in the butt. Barry: >> I use digitalocean.com and run a “droplet”, 1GiB VM running fedora. Jeffrey Walton: > I tried to get IONOS (https://www.ionos.com) to offer Fedora years ago > for our free/open source project. They did not add the offering. Intriguing as they sound, I'm in Australia. While there's a certain amount of "I'd rather support a local business," it's more a case of if you want Google, et al, to recognise you as Australian you need to either have an Australian domain name, or be hosted by a service it recognises as being in Australia. I don't have an Australian domain name, it's just a simple dotcom. So I depend on being hosted locally. To register a com.au (or various other ***.au domains), you need to have a registered business name, or be some other officially registered entity (e.g a charity or non-profit-organisation for .org.au or .asn.au), or be a government agency (for .gov.au). I don't have a registered business name, trademark, or other similar thing, because I don't have to, and don't want all the other entanglements. Although I tend to agree with the stance of reserving .com.au for actual commercial websites, .org.au for other organisations, and making sure they're not fraudulent, *we* dont really have any good general- purpose info.au TLD for non-commercial, non-charity, non-personal usage. With, perhaps the exception of the new .au TLD without a prefix (e.g. example.au). The rules on that are less clear, but the price- gouging is no surprise. Australian organisations and businesses love to think that something is premium and must cost extra, while providing a low standard of service that would cost less elsewhere. But that means either changing domains, or adding a second one. Changing loses everything you built up. Doubling-up costs yet more money and doubles your received spam. So I guess I'm stuck with local hosting services, where you get a tiny amount of space, or a ridiculous bill. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 15:48:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
