Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by cmelbye » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:41 PM UTC

drewcrawford wrote: post #27

justinsb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Rackspace Cloud is probably what he's referring to. Smallest instance is ~$10, no bandwidth included though.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by bentlegen » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:45 PM UTC

If you're playing around in Ruby, you could give Heroku a try (http://www.heroku.com). They have a free plan for small projects.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by cmelbye » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:47 PM UTC

akkartik wrote: post #29

davidw wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Linode's backup feature is currently in beta.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by vorobei » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:49 PM UTC

I've been a happy Linode customer since August 2007. There were two minor issues with DNS (not their fault, I believe) during that time. Once I had to do an emergency RAM upgrade on a Sunday -- it was the best customer service experience I've ever had.

I run two servers -- Gentoo and Ubuntu. I recommend Ubuntu.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by turtle4 » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:52 PM UTC

drewcrawford wrote: post #27

justinsb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, grandparent poster was off on pricing, but his intent is correct. AWS is several times more expensive than the other 'lighter' VPS solutions out there, which is why is isn't brought up/suggested more often.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by jmonegro » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:52 PM UTC

Heroku, hands down. It's free unless it gets serious. (ruby only, though)

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:54 PM UTC

To the general hosting question:

blog: Nexcess.net

small project sites: HostGator.com

Old ASP.NET site that I'm going to discontinue: DiscountASP.Net

"Real" web projects: roll my own using VMWare or Xen

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by pavs » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:54 PM UTC

Media Temple. I absolutely hate it, but moving to a new host is a bitch. When I get some time to move I am either moving back to Slicehost or Linode and built my server up from scratch.

Note to everyone, don't ever use media temple. They are absolutely horrible. Every week, either the servers gets hacked, servers goes down or something is wrong with their admin panel and they won't let you access it. And of course its slow as hell. I have used their both dv and gs setup, just horrible. Their customer service is decent, but what am I going to do with good customer service when the server has so many problems?

They do have a good marketing and design team. I have to give them that.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by oldgregg » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:55 PM UTC

fendale wrote: post #4

prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up)

Been using prgmr for about 6 months, can't beat it.

Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

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Post by pieter » Sat, Dec 19, 2009, 9:56 PM UTC

I'm using hosteurope.de (as I'm in Europe and want decent ping times). They have pretty good deals, starting at €13/month for 1GB RAM and 5TB data. I'm still on an earlier plan, 256MB for €10/month though.

They have pretty decent service, but their English (understandably) isn't that good. They've been down a few times in the last few months, but otherwise have a pretty good track record.

I think for the money you pay them, you get a very good price, but don't expect 99.99% uptime