A month or so ago, I migrated all of my Gemini posts to my blog and shut down my Gemini server.

For me there wasn't really a point to the effort. I'm glad the protocol exists and that people are enjoying it, but I'll stick to HTML.

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3036e4 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I shut down my server the other day after people on HN were sharing horror stories about runaway bandwidth bills. I could not find a good (easy) way to ensure that my gemini server shuts down if hit by DDOS. I want to set it up again, but need to find some place to host it that has a guaranteed maximum bandwidth cost.

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LorenDB 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Just run it on Hetzner. You get 20TB egress monthly per server, which should cover a lot of DDOS activity.

You could also probably create a script to run on another machine that uses the Hetzner (or other cloud provider) API to monitor usage and shut off your server if it exceeds usage limits.

	▲	3036e4 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It was running on Hetzner, but I did not like the idea of having to rely on some script to try to avoid a disaster as opposed to just be able to set a limit (that they do not support?). * Even if the risk is obviously very low, the value of running my gemlog isn't great. Not really worth any non-zero risk of significant costs.

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tpoacher 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

sourcehut offers gemini hosting via your sr.ht repos from what I understand.

haven't tried it myself yet, though I've been meaning to...

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prmoustache 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It is rather easy to have one running alongside the other and the gemtext syntax is such it is quite easy to make automatic converters. Did you encounter issues maintaining both?

I mean I truly believe anyone can do small websites using HTML standards so for the actual content producer Gemini doesn't have much appeal. On the other hand using Gemini provide the users/visitors a guarantee they will not end up following a link and ending up in a bloated, privacy and ad nightmare. So I think it is sane to offer that even if you believe in small regular web.

	▲	bovermyer 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I no longer use a VPS and just have my static site hosted on a free provider.