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Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by hharake » Sat, Feb 28, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

linode (a VPS web hosting provider).

N.B: I do not trust any shared hosting company.

Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by JohnMunsch » Sat, Feb 28, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC

I've used DigitalOcean for about a year and been happy with it. Lately I've been looking at Atlantic.Net and Vultr.com as well because they offer either cheaper or have slightly different priorities in their pricing levels.

For example, Vultr offers more memory and less hard drive space in their $5/month level.

These days I'm trying to get to a point where I have deployment software in place that would allow me to use Ubuntu LTS anywhere in a fairly short period of time. It's not that I'm actively looking to leave DigitalOcean, it's that I would like to be able to recommend something like Atlantic.Net's GO plan to somebody to put up a quick static site for $12 a year and know that it actually works because I've tried it myself.

Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by gt565k » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 8:41 PM UTC

ddorian43 wrote: post #6

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Their docs are amazing as well. Very detailed, step-by-step instructions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by cweagans » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:15 PM UTC

kafei wrote: post #32

cweagans wrote: post #25

There's no reason to deal with shared hosting providers anymore. VPSes are so incredibly cheap that it doesn't make any sense. In order of price (low to high): DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS. Take your pick. They're all good.

But then I'd have to manage and maintain a server. What if I don't want to be a server administrator?

It's not that time consuming. Digital Ocean will set up LAMP for you (or even install Drupal or Wordpress if that's your thing). Secure SSH, set up your app, set up monitoring and leave it alone.

Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by fmisle » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

Disclaimer: I work for Rackspace.

We have a once click Orchestration install of OwnCloud that will install and fine tune your server according to their best practices and specifications,. We also have a developer+ program where you can get $50/mo for 12 months in credit to try us out (developer.rackspace.com/signup)

Re: Ask HN: Who is your go-to web hosting company?

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Post by genoki » Sat, Mar 07, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

cweagans wrote: post #44

kafei wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then I'd have to manage and maintain a server. What if I don't want to be a server administrator?

It's not that time consuming. Digital Ocean will set up LAMP for you (or even install Drupal or Wordpress if that's your thing). Secure SSH, set up your app, set up monitoring and leave it alone.

I want to move from shared hosting. Looking at DO. Have scores of sites to migrate. I use NameCheap for domain reg and point to host. Can I host multiple domains at DO? How does it work for multiple sites?

Would setup be something like:

1. Get DO account 2. Install LAMP 3. Setup multiple sub domains in DO? 4. Create site directories in DO and copy site files into them? 5. Point domains to sub domains?