Eh hello! esp.sg is just my personal domain, used
mainly to send and receive e-mails. Do feel free to send me an
e-mail if you feel like it. What about? Anything oso can. :-)
I live in Germany and am a German citizen. I like the .sg
Domain, hence this
website. I am a computer geek and wanted to
see what it's like
to host a website in Singapore with a Singaporean hosting
provider. Up until that point I only had experience with German
hosting providers, including alturo, strato, hetzner and 23M,
the latter being a colocation provider in the beautiful town of
Frankfurt am Main.
This website currently runs on a kvm guest at exabytes
Singapore, FreeBSD is
the guest operating system and the webserver in use is nginx.
I installed FreeBSD by booting into exabytes' GNU/linux rescue
system, which comes with a pretty restricted set of available
commands and at least at the time I did the installation didn't
allow me to install additional utilities because of a problem
with the apt repository. wget was not available. I used dd in
conjunction with ssh to write a FreeBSD live image to the kvm
virtual hard drive, then booted into that from the rescue
system's grub via the grub chainloader. After that successfully
booted, I requested the rescue system to be deactivated and was
happy to find a working FreeBSD booting and expanding its
partition to make full use of the available virtual hard disk.
FreeBSD oso better.
If you send me an e-mail, it will be received by my vserver in
Germany. I use that one for other e-mail addresses as well and
it is too much work to set up another e-mail server just for the
.sg domain. Setting up e-mail servers used to be easy, but with
all the spamming going on these days, now got DMARC, SPF, DKIM
and that's a lot of work to set up properly hor. So I prefer to
run only one mail server for now. The MX record
of esp.sg points to my German hetzner vserver.