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

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Post by dhimes »

jazzychad wrote: post #10

I use my home computer for this purpose. There is a simple WAMP setup on the main OS (winxp) for quick and dirty stuff, and then I have VMWare running a 512 MB RAM image of Ubuntu Server to let me play around with more interesting stuff. So the cost is effectively free. If something then turns into more than a personal project, I use the home setup as a development/staging server and then push it out to a hosted serv…

same here- but centos on the home server because I am somewhat familiar with fedora.

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

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Post by ericclemmons »

I've started using Zerigo.com's cloud-hosting. So far, it's been fantastic for keeping my LAMP stack imaged for quick deployment so I can test new projects in their own sandbox for pennies.

Note, it's a private beta still, but I figured they were worth mentioning. Having a VPS on SliceHost as well, I'd recommend something quick & small for "tinkering" and keep the VPS for your existing sites until you're sold on a new environment.

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

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Post by zimbu668 »

Anyone use one of the Mac Mini hosting services?

http://www.macminicolo.net/ http://www.xservhosting.com/mac-mini-colocation/mac-mini-col...

Looks like you buy a mini from them or ship one you already own and the hosting starts about $30 a month. I'm not sure if this is just to appeal to "Mac Fanboys" or if it's actually a good setup. I'd be interested if anyone has used one of these services.

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

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Post by gnosis »

xist wrote: post #74

Depending on your purpose/needs, http://www.lowendbox.com/ lists sub $5/month VPS. Of course, dont expect much, but i have a couple for testing network connectivity. vmware/xen are great for local playing around though as others suggest.

Wow, ramhost (one of the links from that site) offers $3/month VPS.

That sounds about as cheap as it gets... anyone have experience with these guys?

http://www.ramhost.us/?page=virtual-dedicated-server

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

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Post by dryicerx »

robotrout wrote: post #6
dryicerx wrote: post #3

Linode 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 ....")

Image processing and analysis (some of my work involves cbir), processing large amounts of data of statistical analysis, brute forcing needs, etc
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