I use Linode. It's inexpensive, reliable, and easy to set up and use. The company also makes significant contributions back to the open source community. On my rating scale they get double bonus points for that.
Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
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Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#53Chunkhost.com is giving away half-gig instances right now.
Sorta, they're not free, it's only for the beta period, and they still require a (valid) credit card number, and presumably they'll start charging you once the beta period ends (and they don't specify when that is on their homepage).
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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.
Thanks, I was a little off on pricing - I didn't realize Linode started at $20.
Rackspace is $11 / month for the 256MB slice, no bandwidth, though there's no bandwidth included in EC2 so that's apples-to-apples. I doubt bandwidth costs would be that significant for the OP's purpose.
Looks like prgmr also has cheaper entry points, including some bandwidth.
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#55prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up)
Prgmr here too.
Upgraded to a 256mb pkg just 4 days back. Been with them with a 128mb pkg for 6 months. Cheap and value for money.
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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?
Check out http://is.gd/5ub0S -- the service is free while in beta.
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#57+1 for Webfaction. You get a shell, a gazillion different application types (CGI, Rails, PHP, Django, custom). You can compile Apache and/or MySQL and configure a custom port for it. Their support is responsive. Service has competitive pricing. I've been with them for three years and haven't experience any outages.
I've also been with them for quite some time. I originally got it because I wanted something cheap with django hosting, but I've stayed because they offer plenty of different setups and have great customer service. My credit card thought they were fraud a couple of times and stopped payment, and the Webfaction guys were very understanding about it, and kept my sites up while I worked my way up the bank chain trying to convince them that I actually wanted to pay them.
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#58Linode for general stuff. Amazon EC2 when I need a sudden burst of computational power.
Can you give an example of an actual case when you needed this sudden burst of computational power? I'm curious what sorts of things people are actually using it for in real life. (instead of "well, you COULD use it for ....")
Load simulations for VR systems
Re: Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Check out http://is.gd/5ub0S -- the service is free while in beta.
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#60Media 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 it…
Haha same deal. The gridserver is $20/mo and I have a dozen sites on it, nice control panel but the uptime is horrible and its slow as molasses
It blows yet I have to keep it unless I want to migrate 12 different sites...