No one likes AWS? You can turn it off whenever you're not using it.
Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
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#22http://www.volumedrive.com/
They have real servers for reasonable prices.
Or some kind of linode/slicehost, if you don't need too much.
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#23prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up)
+1 for prgmr.com
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#24No one likes AWS? You can turn it off whenever you're not using it.
AWS starts at around $60 a month, a basic VPS (Rackspace, Linode etc) starts at around $10 a month. With the VPS, you wouldn't have to spend time turning it off and on to save pennies, and you wouldn't have to learn all the EC2 oddities (Elastic IP, EBS, Ephemeral Storage, AMIs, Availability Zones, KeyPairs, etc).
For someone looking to get started, a normal VPS seems easier and cheaper.
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#25I've been very happy with Rackspace Cloud, and especially with how well it scales down -- as low as $10/mo. It's not quite all the flexibility that Amazon does, but the API's nice and getting better, and for personal stuff the smaller size is a big win.
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#26I use linode for work and think its great. I used to use webfaction but switched because they were too inconsistent. Poor performance sometimes and they were always responsive to deal with problems, but they happened every couple weeks.
For home use I have an old Thinkpad thats way more powerful than a cheap slice somewhere which cost me $150 on craigslist + 12kwhrs/mo. I used to use an old desktop, but the laptop will actually save me money on my power bill in about 2 years, by using 17watts instead of 100. Saves carbon too since we get mostly coal power here.
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#27No one likes AWS? You can turn it off whenever you're not using it.
AWS starts at around $60 a month, a basic VPS (Rackspace, Linode etc) starts at around $10 a month. With the VPS, you wouldn't have to spend time turning it off and on to save pennies, and you wouldn't have to learn all the EC2 oddities (Elastic IP, EBS, Ephemeral Storage, AMIs, Availability Zones, KeyPairs, etc). For someone looking to get started, a normal VPS seems easier and cheaper.
Rackspace bought slicehost who charges $20/month.
Linode's lowest VPS is $20/mo: https://www.linode.com/signup/
Am I missing something? I'd love to find a decent VPS provider at $10/month.
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#28I started with a host called "kiloserv"...I haven't yet met anybody else who has heard of them (saw them in a sig on /.); they were fine for something that I wasn't too concerned about (all I really needed was an off network box for testing my network setup at work). Kiloserv was $10/mo for a VPS, it never went down on my in ~2yrs, and it worked...
That said, the bandwidth didn't seem too special, the company had 0 support of any kind...didn't offer a console, or DNS hosting (that I know of), and on and on and on...they worked, but not for a business.
After them, I switched to slicehost (per a recommendation here) and they were/are awesome. Totally professional, good bandwidth, $20/mo, everything I wanted. I recommend them 100% to anybody doing a semi-serious project.
After a recent comparison here, it sounded like linode was also really really good, so I bought a VPS from them ($20/mo again) to use a development server/sandbox. The linode box seems to, honestly, be outperforming my VPS from slicehost with benchmarks on AB (although this could just be a slight disparity between my httpd.confs on the two boxes).
Slicehost or Linode are outstanding +1 to them.
My next box will probably be a colo'd box with prgmr. ($50 for 1u including power and bandwidth is really enticing to me).
Slicehost/Linode are what I use right now...
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#29For VPS: I'm using Slicehost currently, but have seen some good reviews of Linode. I think I'll likely give them a spin in the new year instead of Slicehost - you get a bit more for your money, and can customize more from what I understand. I believe they both have quite good support from both community and company perspectives. Lots of good articles and tutorials. Some comparison links: recent: http://journal.uggeda…
Thanks! The second comparison link is mine, which focuses a bit more on memory, as opposed to performance. And that's where Linode and their 32 bit systems win over Slicehost and their 64 bit systems. The latter chews up a lot more memory for something like Rails, so even if Slicehost only looks slighty more expensive, they end up being significantly more expensive. Which is unfortunate, because they seem like good p…
Most interesting summary. The one thing that's kept me from trying out linode is slicehost's support for whole-slice backups. Linode doesn't have backups, right?
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#30Chunkhost.com is giving away half-gig instances right now.