I've spun up a new VM to host the osric.uk stuff (so pulling it off wepiu in the cloud). I still haven't brought myself to renting a Hezner machine - they offer a really good deal for what you get, but it's still £30/month.

(I guess I haven't got used to £30/month being affordable. Hubbies new pc was about 2.5k£, or just under 7 years hosting at that price).

If i got a new machine (and it is a machine, not a VM), I'd probably set up Wireguard so it's connected to wepiu (and the house machines, just to make life easier) and keep DNS pointing at wepiu (Mythic have a much better rep than Hetzner).

So this month, I'm going to move the osric.uk stuff to a VM on one of the home machines to prove the theory, and if it works I'll buy the Hetzner machine at the start of February and copy stuff over.

(I'll probably leave the home VM setup as a staging/test server, I've got a spare domain i can use for it, and it might be fun to set up automated ui tests).

It's a shame I can't take advantage of Hetzner's unlimited bandwidth, but too many services are still ipv4 only, and I don't think I'm anywhere close to the limit at mythic.

In the spirit of "got to start somewhere":

Sheep wander the world eating. Sometimes, for no obvious reason, they will panic and run around for a while, and then calm down and start eating again. Sheep that are eating mostly stay still, but will absently move forwards now and then. Sheep that are panicking move much faster, and occasionally change direction. Sheep will try to avoid obstacles, and will stop moving (even if they are panicking) if they don't have anywhere to go.

Sheep can perceve other nearby sheep, and will tend to panic if a neighbour is panicking (with the chance increasing as the panicking sheep is closer). However, once a sheep starts to panic, it pays much less attention to it's neighbours.

That's shopping thrown up on a server (on ''anat", the new hosting VM). Not even half finished, but going well. Will try to get a bunch more done tomorrow (before work eats up my energy).