I was heavily relying on OpenClaw on a VPS but tried a new hoster. Turns out being distracted at the wrong time - not reading mails for 5 days - was enough for the server to get destroyed without even a grace down-time.
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Which host?
I wonder if a self hosted proxmox vm would be better?
completely wiped? that's brutal bro
Yeah, well, bitnodes it is. They have a warning about that and I'm trying to reach their support now but the warning is pretty clear. But dad died the day their first warning about low credits came and there can be a million good reasons to not react to an email immediately. Hope there is a way ...
If not, nginx config, lobster memory, ssl certs and maybe some final commits in the various projects are lost.
bitlaunch.io
Correction: bitlaunch.io
Might be my next approach. I had not considered a VM and failed to (quickly) get it to work in a docker/podman container but VM should be straight forward. Thanks for the hint. It's minimally scary the proximity to my actual data but a VM escape should be hard enough.
oh, i'm sorry for your dad's loss
yeah VMs do feel safer that way. what's your timeline looking like to get it running?
For sensitive things like server hosting I wouldn’t trust a reseller like that with no company name or spokesperson (especially if they arent’t trying to intentionally be an anonymous host)
Absolutely my fault. When I booked the hosting I saw their rules that when funds run out, servers get destroyed but I only wanted to try out openclaw and wanted something disposable. Timing was just ... unfortunate.
Though in general, resellers are really sketchy and I wouldn’t recommend them at all.
One think I love about Proxmox is the scheduled snapshot backups. 👍 I'd just make sure you back them up to a NAS or something.
I wanted to pay in BTC. Not a lot of primary sellers.
BuyVM I think could work