Ask HN: What are good hosting providers? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by justforyou » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

I suggest you spend some time reading the following thread before making a decision about Digital Ocean:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by type0 » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

Between Lightsail, Hetzner, Vultr and OVH - which one is better in Europe?

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by mike503 » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

jseliger wrote: post #22

Anyone here used WPEngine for Wordpress hosting? https://wpengine.com

I’ve moved many people to it and more people away from it. It isn’t worth the cost for most people.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by reilly3000 » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 10:50 PM UTC

cannonedhamster wrote: post #38

reilly3000 wrote: post #36

I haven’t seen any plugs yet for AWS Lighthouse. It’s in a dedicated UI, so it’s not as overwhelming as AWS. You don’t need Ground Control satellite services to run a website. Lighthouse starts at $5/Mo and comes with great docs and lots of templates. It’s pretty comparable to a Digital Ocean droplet.

I think you meant Lightsail not Lighthouse correct?

Oops, correct. Its too late to edit :/

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by stevedekorte » Fri, Jul 26, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

sethhochberg wrote: post #11

Whenever I need a managed hosting provider (admittedly pretty rare, I run most of my personal stuff off a Digital Ocean VPS, but I'm also very comfortable with linux/ops/security and don't mind managing these things myself), I always head to https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ - these days they support a pretty varied collection of languages/frameworks, and they have a good combo of extremely transparent pricing, solid…

I've had good experiences with them as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by TheMog » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 1:16 AM UTC

iamcreasy wrote: post #27

davesmith1983 wrote: post #15

I am using Vultr. They have very cheap VPS options and they have many different OS images i.e. I am running a CentOS and a OpenBSD instances.

The cheapest VPS on Vultr doesn't provided IPv6. Does it mean people from IPv4 wont be able to access website hosted on that VPS? Is there a way around this issue?

If you're talking about the $2.50 VPS, yes, that's IPV6-only, so it doesn't support IPV4. You're correct that people who only use IPV4 won't be able to access that VPS, at least not without jumping through hoops. There's also a $3.50 VPS instance with the same spec that appears to support both IPV4 & IPV6.

I've been using Vultr for a while and am quite happy with them. I've also used a couple of the IPV6-only VPSs for experiments, but I have IPV4 & IPV6 connectivity at home.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by cannonedhamster » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 4:18 AM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #44

cannonedhamster wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you meant Lightsail not Lighthouse correct?

Oops, correct. Its too late to edit :/

Oh whale. It's actually a fantastic suggestion. I think I'm actually going to use it based on the pricing and offering. Thanks for bringing it up.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by elamje » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 4:23 AM UTC

I don’t see anyone mentioning AWS Lightsail.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

I use it and it seems to be pretty great. I also like that it brings you into the AWS ecosystem at a low price, so if you need to scale or you want to make a bigger application, AWS is right there to hook into. Furthermore it’s a really simple UI and not as overwhelming as the normal AWS web console.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by iamcreasy » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

TheMog wrote: post #46

iamcreasy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cheapest VPS on Vultr doesn't provided IPv6. Does it mean people from IPv4 wont be able to access website hosted on that VPS? Is there a way around this issue?

If you're talking about the $2.50 VPS, yes, that's IPV6-only, so it doesn't support IPV4. You're correct that people who only use IPV4 won't be able to access that VPS, at least not without jumping through hoops. There's also a $3.50 VPS instance with the same spec that appears to support both IPV4 & IPV6. I've been using Vultr for a while and am quite happy with them. I've also used a couple of the IPV6-only VPSs fo…

Thank you. I did not know that. It is only available from their NY location. One has to click though all server locations to find the best deal for the need.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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Post by robjan » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 5:37 AM UTC

iamcreasy wrote: post #27

davesmith1983 wrote: post #15

I am using Vultr. They have very cheap VPS options and they have many different OS images i.e. I am running a CentOS and a OpenBSD instances.

The cheapest VPS on Vultr doesn't provided IPv6. Does it mean people from IPv4 wont be able to access website hosted on that VPS? Is there a way around this issue?

You would have to get another instance with IP4 support and reverse proxy to the IP6 one. Could be useful if you were using the IP6 box for something like a database server, but the instance you are talking about isn't really powerful enough for that.