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

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Post by NateLawson »

vorobei wrote: post #34

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.

I was with a company who used Linode from about 2003 to 2007. It was awful. We had a one-day outage when someone kicked out the power cord. Another outage with some routing mishap by Linode. DDoS floods destined for our VM due to irc bots or whatever running on another VM.

Linode would start an upgrade without notice during normal business hours, and then only admit they were messing with things if there was a crash.

Get a dedicated machine. The lost productivity alone makes it worth it.

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

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Post by NateLawson »

mattyfo wrote: post #8
jaddison wrote: post #2

For 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…

I recently purchased a linode account for the same reason and am really enjoying it. For $20 I have a linux server to toy with and have been learning a lot from it. The one really nice thing about their setup is the management console that makes deploying whichever distro you want really easy and then monitoring really easy. Also as Jaddison said, they have some a really solid community and the support is excellent.

If this is your level of personal use (experimentation), yes, Linode might be fine.

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

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Post by bugs »

NateLawson wrote: post #42
vorobei wrote: post #34

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.

I was with a company who used Linode from about 2003 to 2007. It was awful. We had a one-day outage when someone kicked out the power cord. Another outage with some routing mishap by Linode. DDoS floods destined for our VM due to irc bots or whatever running on another VM. Linode would start an upgrade without notice during normal business hours, and then only admit they were messing with things if there was a crash.…

That is probably not the norm and you probably should have asked to be moved to another machine and seen if they could investigate the source of the problem.

From my experience Linode (2-3 years) has been excellent especially if you want a server just to mess around on and learn how to host and make projects work while being able to stop and change distros very quickly.

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

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Post by koenbok »

Ixiaus wrote: post #18
cperciva wrote: post #11

I've been very satisfied with RootBSD so far.

I've been wanting to try out RootBSD for a while now. I'm a hardcore FreeBSD user (I have three FreeBSD servers at home)...

RootBSD has been very reliable for us, and good service.
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