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[–] corbin@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Crosspost, hat-tip to @pnwpixel@programming.dev for finding this. Omarchy announces another patron: DigitalOcean. I will wait for DO to explicitly confirm/deny this, but if this is true then I'm going to be moving my entire small-business footprint.

[–] TrashGoblin@awful.systems 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, gods damn it. I'm only going to have a couple of servers to move, but it's going to be a huge pain in the ass. What VM provider is recommended these days for USAian customers?

[–] corbin@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

I'm probably going to increase my presence on DreamHost in California, who I've hosted with for over a decade. They historically are First Amendment proponents known for being quietly friendly towards adult content; also, in 2017 DH pushed back on the Department of Justice's subpoena for 1.3 million IP addresses visiting an anti-Trump protest-organizing website. That said, I'm 100% prepared for yet another Milkshake Duck Moment.

Looking forward to being able to send email, which DigitalOcean still blocks in order to funnel customers towards hosted email-delivery services.

[–] pnwpixel@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

Check out https://upcloud.com/. EU based, but have servers in the EU, US, and Asia-Pacific: https://upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/locations/

If you got questions, hit them up on mastodon: https://glitchy.upcloud.world/@upcloud

[–] rhamph@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

There’s this: “Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean” https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-joins-omacom-foundation

Alongside the infrastructure move, DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit that funds Omarchy’s infrastructure and the open source projects it depends on, as a Founding Corporate Patron, and will serve as Omarchy’s agentic compute provider.

So fascism and slop. Name a more iconic couple.