[3036e4]

I shut down my server the other day after people on HN were sharing horror stories about runaway bandwidth bills. I could not find a good (easy) way to ensure that my gemini server shuts down if hit by DDOS. I want to set it up again, but need to find some place to host it that has a guaranteed maximum bandwidth cost.

[LorenDB]

Just run it on Hetzner. You get 20TB egress monthly per server, which should cover a lot of DDOS activity.

You could also probably create a script to run on another machine that uses the Hetzner (or other cloud provider) API to monitor usage and shut off your server if it exceeds usage limits.

[3036e4]

It was running on Hetzner, but I did not like the idea of having to rely on some script to try to avoid a disaster as opposed to just be able to set a limit (that they do not support?).

* Even if the risk is obviously very low, the value of running my gemlog isn't great. Not really worth any non-zero risk of significant costs.

[tpoacher]

sourcehut offers gemini hosting via your sr.ht repos from what I understand.

haven't tried it myself yet, though I've been meaning to...