I decided to look around for a more affordable VPS providers with better specs for the money, and found Hetzner. Now I’ve gone from a 2 core, 2 GB, 40 GB instance to a 4 core, 8 GB, 160 GB server for a little more than I’m paying now at DigitalOcean. I’m hoping this new service won’t let me down. I was also kind of disappointed with DigitalOcean, they don’t have the type of droplet I originally had for $12.
In other news I’ve been doing a little bit more web development in my spare time, so that motivated me to possibly start working on my personal website again. I’ve also finally started looking into container technology like docker. I’m not sure what I want to containerize, but I’m sure I’ll find a project.