Do you guys have any preference for hardware or software virtualization? (i.e. xen vs. openvz)
Ask HN: Which VPS hosting do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: Which VPS hosting do you use?
#12I've used SliceHost, Linode, and AWS, as well as some "no-name" providers. Linode is my top pick. I've thought about moving my stuff to AWS (due to the hourly vs monthly billing) multiple times but always ended up staying with Linode.
I should have added this as part of my original question but how easy is it to upgrade your hosting solution. Say I have a 20$ a month one but then one of my websites takes off and I need bigger and better. Is the transition painless?
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#13My first personal VPS was with Bytemark and we use them at work for our Disaster Recovery box in case our datacenters get hit by meteors or whatever. They're a good team and know what they're doing.
I have also spent a couple of years with Slicehost, who have excellent docs and a reliable service. It's fair to say that I learned most of what I know about syadmin stuff while hosted with Slicehost.
When Slicehost got bought out, I switched to their new parent RackSpace to get some experience with "cloud" stuff. It's working out very well so far. They're a bit cheaper than Slicehost.
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#14Was on Rackspace, thought about slicehost.com, but pricing wasn't that good.
I switched to Linode and have been very happy. Pricing is good, and bandwidth overage fees won't kill you.
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#15lowendbox.com is where I look for cheap experimental boxes.
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#16For cheapest, I have yet to see something less expensive than prgmr. Luke, I'm not sure if he owns it or is just the main administrator is a member here. http://prgmr.com/xen/
I like them too. Cheap and simple.
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#17I've been using Slicehost for a while now — since May 2008, according to my email records. I use my slice mainly for development work, as a static media server (w/ nginx) and it has occasionally hosted the odd Django app.
It's been rock solid, they have a simple (yet great) administrative interface, and the two times I needed their support, I had a response within minutes (even at 2AM in the morning). Plus they contribute some great docs to budding sys admins and devs, and make it easy to pick up some sys admin basics. Very happy with them.
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#18Linode. No downtime so far, awesome support.
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#19Linode and arpnetworks are what I use at the moment. Arpnetworks is more on the cheap side but I use them only for freebsd and for linux I use linode (I was a customer of prgmr for a year before and only had 1 minor downtime with them for a hardware failure.)
Re: Ask HN: Which VPS hosting do you use?
#20Do you guys have any preference for hardware or software virtualization? (i.e. xen vs. openvz)
Xen.
OpenVZ and Virtuozzo are more like chroot on steroids. Those technologies make it easier to oversell hardware and you'll often end up with some pretty crappy performance.