I have been on a similar journey. It's been a trying endeavour but my spirits are buoyed knowing now that I am not alone.

One I found last week, FullHost, is Victoria-based with multiple datacentres in Canada and the US. I'm not sure if they support everything you're looking for.

https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/

I gave OVH a try a couple weeks ago. It's difficult to explain what the user experience is like. It's like a byzantine interpretation of what cloud computing is all about. Beyond that I tried both their VPSs and the Cloud instances. The VPSs are very well priced but there's no private network so each instance is on its own. I read (but didn't verify myself) that the firewall rules only apply to inbound connections so any other VPS can connect to any port on any other VPS (of any customer). It seemed plausible. So I got a refund on those and tried the Cloud Instances. I could get any to boot up. Just a long delay and a few minutes later an error message and a failed state.

So I've been working with DigitalOcean this past week. Literally 20 minutes ago figured out that my app's verification emails stop sending b/c they now block all SMTP ports. Incoming I can understand to prevent people running their own mail servers, but it seems to also apply to connecting to remote SMTP servers. Wild. I opened a ticket and I'm hoping I just missed something.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

Anyway, that's what brought me to HN today. Overall, I'm just really surprised their aren't cloud hosting options in Canada right now. There used to be a few but at least two of them were acquired and absorbed.

Thanks, I hadn't seen this.

Thanks, this is a big help.

At Hetzner, in one of the data centers in Germany.

There's a bit more info on our blog:

https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-12-ddos-day-4

https://docs.onetimesecret.com/blog/2024-09-09-denial-of-ser...

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you have to invent the universe.

After watching the Karpathy videos on the subject, of course.

If it works like Jupyter, as a file that can be version controlled, and like Deepnote where multiple people can be viewing/working on it at the same time, my mind would be blown.

here, be blown away https://github.com/opral/monorepo/tree/main/lix

solving version control for files like jupyter notebooks brings collaboration to those files without the need to give up files in favor of the cloud. playbooks could leverage lix in 1-2 years to build a file-based version of their tool

this is quite interesting. I'll surely keep it in mind while we build out deeper collaborative features.!

Wow, yeah. "Bringing backend features to files."

This feels a bit like that time we saw Etherpad playback for the first time. I'm just not sure if I've grokked the big picture yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336

big picture is that cloud-based apps/saas is getting disrupted.

there is no value in a cloud-based solution that locks users and customers in if collaboration can be solved in the data (file) level. turns out that version control solves collaboration on the data level and is awesome to build apps.

You might also like Elixir Livebook! :) https://livebook.dev/

Thanks for your feedback.

> as a file that can be version controlled

PlayBooks are created using a UI and all state changes are tracked but we currently don't support moving back to a previous version of the PlayBook.

> where multiple people can be viewing/working on it at the same time

This is currently picked wherein we will be creating sessions for each time PlayBooks are run and sessions will have the data persistent in each cell for everyone with the link to see.

In LM Studio you can branch off of any message to start a new conversation at that point: https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/assets/1206/f...

https://lmstudio.ai

In B.C. (British Columbia), there were over 2500 overdose deaths just last year. ~85% involving fentanyl.

> [The chief coroner] said almost 14,000 people have died since the province declared toxic drugs a public health emergency in April 2016.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-gri...

You don't need to check every one though. Or any. You create a known account with known content in it (similar to your hash idea) and monitor that.

Even if they never got around to automating it and were highly laissez-faire, manually checking that account with those testcases say once a month would have caught this within 30 days. That still sucks but it's at least an order of magnitude less suck than the situation they're in now.