Reborn from ashes, but on DigitalOcean

With the major incident that happend at the Strasbourgh site of OVH I lost my VPS that was hosting this blog. Being this a personal blog I did not invest in an HA setup and went with the lowest VPS tier available to keep costs at a minumum. OVH has started working non stop on recovering their site ad Strasbourgh from the start, but from the information I received it doesn’t seem like I’ll have a new VPS soon unless I order a new one in another of their datacenters. Eventhough there will be refunds for the time wihtout VPS I started to look around for alternatives.

So I decided to give DigitalOcean (DO) a try because during my research for alternatives to OVH I saw the DO App Platform gave the possibilty to deploy 3 static websites for 0$, and honestly what’s better than that to keep costs at a minimum.

My first experience was great as I was able to get this blog back online in seconds. All I had to do was to link the code repository, it got the code saw the it was a Hugo based website and deployed it.

The only additional thing I did was to add a custom hostname and create the needed CNAME tomy DNS zone.

So next steps are to see the other services and tools offered by DigitalOcean