I'm surprised nobody mentioned joshtronic's VPS showdown:
https://joshtronic.com/2019/07/01/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
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Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
#52I 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.
I have also had good experiences with Lightsail. We use the Tokyo node for an app targeting China. And unlike the Amazon free tier (older Red Hat) you get a choice of modern distributions.
Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
#53It depends on your needs really. DO is fine for low budget projects. Just below them I would suggest Vultr. If you don't care about API's and that sort of thing, then Ramnode is even cheaper, but I've had issues with the user interface. There are a bunch of aggregator sites that compare vps providers. Here are two of them. [1] [2] [3] Disclaimer: These sites can be a bit spammy. Use NoScript / uBlock. Also, you reall…
Ramnode also has at times outright hostile customer support and a blatant disregard for customer privacy. Strongly advise against them.
Care to elaborate a bit more? I've experienced some network issues like parent mentioned, but otherwise I've thought of them as a fairly solid provider (atleast as a low-end provider).
Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
#54Between Lightsail, Hetzner, Vultr and OVH - which one is better in Europe?
Hetzner and OVH should be the Same from a Network Point.
Personally I like Hetzner the most. They are dirty cheap and have a good support.
Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m so glad someone mentioned Vultr. They are way underrated. They have a phenomenal service. Hard to beat their pure raw performance (NVMe, high clock CPU), they offer a host of solution from dedicated to VPS, you truly can’t beat their price (I migrated from AWS to Vultr, Vultr was 8x cheaper for the comparable AWS offering), they have global presence.
The also offer money for writing guides for them.
Do you have a link for that? Checked their site just now (on mobile though), did not see a relevant link.
Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
#56I'm surprised nobody mentioned joshtronic's VPS showdown: https://joshtronic.com/2019/07/01/vps-showdown-digitalocean-...
Thanks, this was a great writeup with lots of benchmarks.