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If electricity becomes really scarce, they'll take some large industrial processes offline. Data centers won't be shut down. You'll be fine with OVH.
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I think his worry is the percentage of power production in Europe that shifted from Coal to Natural Gas (read Russian Natural Gas). But I just don't see it, I think governments in Europe would likely buy surplus US/Canada LNG ($$$) or scrable for extra gas from Norway/Qatar/Algeria instead of creating actual outages, specially considering how much coupling you have in EU power networks across countries. [0] [0] https…
Problem is that you can't just go to Qatar and ask for some LNG delivery tommorow - they are supplying on long term contracts and they need to invest $$$ to increase production. Qatar already told EU (Germany?) that they can only supply extra if they sign a 20 year contract, not 1-2 years.
EU countries will have to budget accordingly to match the new cost of a failed Energy Policy based on hydrocarbon dependency. Hopefully this will accelerate the extinction of the Oil&Gas lobby, both for the environment of our future generations as well as our geo-political resilience.
> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a country where electricity won't be a problem. Your house. A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate. Self-hosting is a lear…
Not everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.
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Is gas used to produce electricity? Mostly I think not. The really large consumers are industrial and use it directly. Some can be shut down relatively easily and will be in case of trouble. Others, not so much and will stay on. Not sure if there are any gas powered smelters, but if you emergency shut down one of those you have to take it down and rebuild it after.
The price of electricity is directly mapped onto the most expensive source, aka gas. What a good idea to put that into law for the whole Europe.
> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a country where electricity won't be a problem. Your house. A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate. Self-hosting is a lear…
Not everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.
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Not everyone has a static ip. Most ISPs prohibit dedicated hosting on a private contract. Email from dynamic address is usually blocked and rightly so. Mixing business with private service is not a good idea. Throughput at home is usually way less and so is reliability.
DynDns can help overcome the static IP barrier. I've used this some years ago but can't vouch for its functionality today. https://account.dyn.com/
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company) [1] https://www.duckdns.org
The country I live in, Germany, is arguably even worse off than France. But: there is a price to be paid for human life, freedoms, democracy and decency. We've been preaching for over 50 years about never letting a genocide happen again on the European soil. Now it's time to walk the talk and pay the price. Still, for us, it's a very modest price, when compared to what the Ukrainians are paying. We pay with discomfor…
> We've been preaching for over 50 years about never letting a genocide happen again on the European soil Maybe you mean 70 years(WWII), but genocides happened during the Yugoslav wars, or you meant the latter, which were only 30 years ago.