You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting

by Olaf Alders · August 31, 2026 ·2 min read ·424 words

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You rename my reservoir — I move my hosting. OK, truthful the series of events is slightly retired of order, but the information is similar. Last week I moved PrettyGoodPing from DigitalOcean successful the U.S. to Hetzner successful the E.U. Price was a factor, but not the only one.

To beryllium honest, if I now person to cheque the provenance of my produce, I should astir apt do the aforesaid for my hosting bill. It’s already taking everlastingly to buy raspberries, truthful successful for a penny…

As acold arsenic the reservoir point goes, it’s excessively ridiculous for maine to walk clip connected when John Gruber has already done a magnificent occupation of summing up the issues:

• Daring Fireball: Trump renames Lake Ontario
• Daring Fireball: Golfo del Gringo Loco (DF archive)
• Daring Fireball: Matt Walsh connected Lake Ontario
• Daring Fireball: Making a Hames Out of It

I would for illustration to add, however, that the full Gulf of Mexico point is equally lame and I’ve thought that since it happened. Hell, I had a akin opinion about Freedom Fries, which is possibly portion of what group this each successful motion.

On a related note, we’ve been moving connected a akin move for MetaCPAN for immoderate clip now, and I’m hoping we tin do the last cutover soon (for immoderate meaning of soon). We get nary sponsorship from DigitalOcean, truthful we are not tied to this service.

The breathtaking velocity pinch which Google Maps happily gets connected committee pinch this lunacy has been a bully motivating facet for maine to de-Google myself arsenic well. Untangling myself is simply a non-trivial, longer-term process. I’ve mostly settled on trying not to necktie my Gmail relationship to things that matter and trying to usage it less alternatively than more. I’m not going to make it my full-time occupation to get FAANG out of my life, but I do effort to beryllium mindful of really profoundly I’m letting the infiltration go.

You tin log successful to PrettyGoodPing pinch Google (as you tin for My Mind is Racing) but for the second I’ve added email login arsenic well, truthful you astatine slightest person a choice and a fallback if/when you suffer entree to Gmail.

And yes, I americium alert that maine taking my business elsewhere does essentially nothing to the US economy, but it does make maine consciousness amended not to beryllium feeding the beast rather arsenic overmuch arsenic I utilized to. If you lived successful a really bully apartment over a meth lab, would you bargain your groceries there?