Paypal redirects back to signup page

[gameguru]

Tried twice, once with paypal and once with paypal credit.

I have two $4 charges pending on my credit card, not sure those will go through or not?

But each time i tried to press the pay button, the tiny pop up window loaded back to the page with ricky, bobby, etc, only in the small window this time.

 

I'm not able to log in with the password/username combo i chose, either time.

Is there a known problem with Firefox? Recently?
What should I do next?

[Krydos]

Sorry about that. I think PayPal must have changed something on their end because we've had a few people have issues with the VPS signup page recently after our website worked perfectly for years without any changes.

I see two subscriptions for $4.00 so I canceled and refunded the second one. I am building your VPS now and you should receive an email with instructions on how to login within a few hours. Thanks for signing up for a VPS.

[Krydos]

Your VPS has finished building and is now available to log in to. Check your email for the IP addresses and other information. Let us know if you have any questions.

[gameguru]

Is there any documentation on how to set up a remote postgres database?

I have it running in systemctl and can get the sql prompt as postgres user

 

Unsure how to connect from the outside world, or if there is any tips you have for that.

[gameguru]

Should i be hosting that elsewhere probably? I would have to maintain all my own backups & configs, right?

Maybe this is a good place to host my Flask server, at least?

[Krydos]

Once PostgreSQL is installed you can enable remote connections by editing the pg_hba.conf file and adding a line specifying the database name, username, and the IP that should have access. Here's a guide on how to do that https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/configure-postgresql-to-allow-remote-connection

You can host your Flask server and your database on the same server without any issues. As far as backups go yes, we recommend taking frequent backups of your important files and storing them somewhere safe. We've never lost data on a VPS, but it doesn't hurt to make backups. You could even automate the backups using a cron job and SFTPing them off to another server. We don't currently have any backup plans for VPS, but that is something we've considered doing in the future. For now you're responsible for your own backups.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

[gameguru]

I ended up closing ports 5432 and my application's 20000 and figuring everything out in nginx. Never thought I would have 70 ms response times on a $4/ month server!

It involved a lot of googling and bouncing ideas off friends, but here are some resources that helped me:

Don't use this first one, it's self-signed. But it's a good intro to the world of HTTPS.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-nginx-in-ubuntu-16-04

I took the first two parts of this.

https://sanic.dev/en/guide/deployment/nginx.html#nginx-configuration

This guide showed me how to ufw allow nginx

https://haydenjames.io/how-to-set-up-an-nginx-certbot/

And this one brought it all together, with running certbot as sudo, under LetsEncrypt, and registering it to auto-renew as a cron job.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-from-lets-encrypt-with-nginx

[gameguru]

Is there any way to upgrade to a 6 month membership from the monthly plan?

[Krydos]

Yes, you can upgrade your existing VPS to a 6 month plan and save 10%. The way it works is you click this link

https://www.heliohost.org/vps/pay/?code=WDClCckJiLH6RGJ2

And set up a new subscription for $21.60 every 6 months starting today. Once the new subscription is active I'll cancel the $4.00 per month subscription and give you a refund for the unused portion of the month. Let us know if you have any issues.