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Been hearing good things about Heroku and after reading this thread psyched to check out Linode
For my own thing, I've got a shared hosting at SurpassHosting.com. I used to rely on Dreamhost to host my blog and do random tests, but they're just crap. Surpass is just good for what I need in those cases...
So basically I get paid money to host my stuff with them :) I made like 3 grand from them so far.
Also since they bump your storage/bw every week, at this point I have 10TB Bandwith and 500GB hosting. Which isn't half bad.
I've been very satisfied with RootBSD so far.
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 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...
I personally recommend slicehost, there are excellent. Never had a problem with them, leaving them was a mistake. I was looking for a managed solution and MT was recommended by some guys so I jumped.
+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.
Chunkhost.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).
What if someone registers for more than one vps (or dozens with the help of proxies and gmail account) and runs illegal activity like spamming or DDOSing some other site? These are all plausible scenario and having valid CC number is the most reasonable thing to do.
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.…
We learned a lot during that time, and I think it's a defining aspect of our company that we can admit that.
I am, however, unable to find a one-day outage for your account; the longest I've come across -- which is power-related, so I'm assuming the one you're referring to -- was reported by your company at 5:39 p.m. and resolved at 8:01 p.m.