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Alphabet Sold Google Domains to Squarespace

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According to Squarespace's press release , Alphabet sold Google Domains assets to them, and the transaction will be completed in the third quarter. The transaction involves 10 million domain names, under the terms of the agreement, Squarespace will honor all existing Google Domains customers' renewal prices for at least 12 months following the closing of the transaction. There will be seamless transfer between them, and there will not be much impact on users. The Google Domains business started in 2014, the word beta was removed in 2022, and it was sold in 2023, which lasted for 9 years. Domain name registration is an important web infrastructure, just like CloudFlare, which is a CDN provider, has also started a domain name hosting service. For Alphabet has Google Cloud service, it is reasonable to have this part of the infrastructure. From what I know of Google's business, there are at least 3 places where domain name registration can be integrated into Google's exist...
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It's Expensive to Purchse Plesk License from Vultr

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I just checked the price of Plesk from Vultr Marketplace , and found that the price of Plesk Licenses is about 3 times compared to the price about 3 years ago. Here is the screenshot I took on February 24, 2020, it shows the price of Web Pro Edition is $7.5 per month, and Web Host Edition is $12.5 per month. Three years after, the price tripled. The price of Web Pro Edition went up to $20.5 per month, and the price of Web Host Edition went up to $35.5 per month. It used to have discounts to purchase licenses from VPS providers, but it's not nowadays. The price showed from the official website of Plesk is the same as shown in Vultr marketplace. I was shocked, the price of VPS is pretty stable in late years, every instance comes with 1 vCPU, 1GB of memory is about $5 per month, but the price of Plesk went up so sharply. Fortunately, there is a free edition of Plesk available, the free version of Plesk has a limit of 3 domains, It's enough for most of us, It it was not, add anoth...
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How to Solve Nginx Error "504 Gateway Time-out"

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  When I was editing some staff and then Nginx showed an error reads "504 Gateway Time-out", for more details, I checked the Apache and Nginx log. And there was a log showed "upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream". After checked the log, I have a clue in my mind. I am using Plesk as my server management tool, every Plesk comes with Nginx and Apache together as web server application, Nginx as proxy and pass requests to Apache, Apache do the background processing and then return the results to Nginx. Gateway time-out means Nginx had sent requests to Apache but didn't get responses from Apache in time. Now, it's pretty easy to solve the problem. Nginx waits 60 seconds to get the results, if Apache were not respond to the requests, Nginx would show 504 Gateway time-out error. So, what we do is to change the wait time a little bit longer than 60s.   In Plesk, Navigate to Domains > example.com > Apache ...
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DigitalOcean Updated New Droplet Plans

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This is a cross post from DigitalOcean Updated New Droplet Plans We’re excited to hear that DigitalOcean uodated new droplet plans recently , and now the price-to-performance is a little better than Vultr and Linode. In my memory, this is the first time that DigitalOcean update its plans. Here is the list of new price and resources of DigitalOcean droplets. High CPU Plans, which were released six months ago, now have its new name Optimized Droplets. Optimized Droplets are powered by dedicated hyper-threads from best-in-class Broadwell and Skylake CPUs, but now come with additional memory and local SSD disk for the same price. Here is the updates. Over the past few years, we like to compare Digitalocean , Vultr and Linode between each other, because of DigitalOcean’s VPSs come with less memory, DigitalOcean is not as popular as the other two, but now, they all at the same level.
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Vultr Upgraded All Plans and Announced $2.5 Instance

Vultr just upgraded all plans and announced a $2.5 per month plan, which comes with 1 CPU core, 512MB of memory, 20GB of SSD storage and 500GB of data transfer. Will you agree with me that Vultr is fighting back Linode which upgraded their plans two weeks ago . How to upgrade for existing customers? Please navigate to settings–>change plan and select the right plan, please note that downgrade is not supported. Here is a screenshot of how to upgrade plan. Enjoy Vultr.
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Get a 1G Linode Instance for $5/month

Linode upgrades its products every one or two years, now Linode introduced 1G instance, which costs $5 per month, with 1GB of Memory and 1 core CPU. At the same time, Linode also introduced High-Memory instances, start at 16GB of memory and scale up to 200GB. For more information about this upgrade, take a look at the following pages. https://www.linode.com/pricing https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/
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Load Balancers now available on DigitalOcean

Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability. They are now available on DigitalOcean. For more information about Load Balancer, take a look at the info page and the tutorials. An Introduction to DigitalOcean Load Balancers How To Create Your First DigitalOcean Load Balancer How To Balance TCP Traffic with DigitalOcean Load Balancers  How To Configure SSL Termination on DigitalOcean Load Balancers
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