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Kevin Rutherford

Who do you recommend these days for low cost, reliable Linux VM hosting? Preferably UK or EU.

@kevinrutherford I'm still very happy with Digital Ocean.

@kevinrutherford I’m using loveservers.com to run a couple of cheap VPSs, one I think grandfathered into a £15 per year plan 😂

@acf I like the (apparent?) simplicity of their offering

@kevinrutherford yup. It’s pretty bare bones. The support has been excellent too given I’m an idiot who screws stuff up and I’m not giving them very much money at all.

@acf Their sign-up form won't let me pay 😕

@kevinrutherford oh no! That’s a bit of a fail. What’s the error ?

@kevinrutherford I have some weird sense of seeing that somewhere else recently. I wonder if there is an issue with stripe (or whatever the payment provider is).

@kevinrutherford unless there’s some reason your card won’t allow USD ? I dunno. Worth giving dropping them a mail unless you’re overly put off and moving on.

@acf It's Stripe. I have plenty of other USD payments going out on this card.

Complete fail. I've messaged their support, but it's pretty basic.

"Just take my money!"

@kevinrutherford so weird. Maybe a stripe issue. Hope they can resolve quickly

@acf Yes -- I was hoping to do a demo later this afternoon...

@kevinrutherford that’s the only stripe error code regarding currency so for whatever reason stripe *thinks* you can’t be charged in a currency. :-/

@acf I tried two different cards, borth of which I know work with USD.

Oh well, that's their loss I'm afraid...

@kevinrutherford yeah fair enough. No emotional investment from me :)