techpimp51

This. This right here.

I used to run everything on one Vultr instance like a genius. Email, web, git, the works. One defacement, total rebuild, lost everything. Now I spread like Chen's five providers except I am poor so it is three cheap ones.

Softaculous...

Bleeding indeed

Wiki would be good. I found another: the Python requests library with default settings on Ubuntu 22.04 tries AAAA first but if it gets any response it does not fallback to A on timeout. This is not IPv6's fault but it breaks things. Fixed in requests 2.32 apparently.

I spent 4 hours on this.

This thread drifted from "sub-$20" to "cheapest sustainable" which is good, because sub-$20 was always fiction.

One more option: Hetzner Storage Share (EUR 3.81) + rclone serve http + Cloudflare in front. Storage Share is Nextcloud, not meant for this, but it works. AUP might object.

I did it for...

We tried NetBox at two sites. Abandoned at both. Too much friction for field tech. Now use simple web form: port from, port to, photo, submit. Backend is plain database. Not fancy. Actually used.

Fancy system unused is worse than simple system used. This is my law.