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

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Post by blasdel »

doubleyooexwhy wrote: post #73

NearlyFreeSpeech.net Insanely cheap. I deposited $5 on November 17th and I still have $2 left in the account, pushing 4.5 to 5GB/month.

I don't know why the hell people are downmodding you, http://nearlyfreespeech.net is pretty brilliant. Sure, having to use classical CGI is undesirable in 2009, but they were doing true distributed cloud-based hosting long before Google App Engine and Heroku came along.

Them and Dreamhost are the only simple shared hosting providers I ever recommend to anyone.

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

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Post by patrickgzill »

pavs wrote: post #38

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…

If you have a Plesk (or whatever other panel they have as an offering) it should actually be close to trivial to move to another provider that offers the same control panel. Most of the big panels have command line utilities that allow you to backup a site at a time or the entire set of sites, then restore them to a different machine.

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

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Post by e1ven »

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.

I'd only recommend it for test projects, but RapidXen is $6 per month. The quality is about what you'd expect.

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

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Post by mickeyben »

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 ....")

I used it a lot for video encoding

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

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Post by moe »

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 ....")

It's also good for hosting websites (well, duh) and especially excels when you need a lot of storage; EBS volumes are almost unbeatable on price and comfort.

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

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Post by moe »

pieter wrote: post #40

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 pa…

Seconded, they've had a few network glitches recently but are generally rock solid.

We're hosting a few production sites with them since 2004 and overall the expirience has been great - and it's hard to beat their traffic prices.

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

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Post by pavs »

patrickgzill wrote: post #82
pavs wrote: post #38

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…

If you have a Plesk (or whatever other panel they have as an offering) it should actually be close to trivial to move to another provider that offers the same control panel. Most of the big panels have command line utilities that allow you to backup a site at a time or the entire set of sites, then restore them to a different machine.

MT uses plesk for their VPS, but currently I am using gs (grid server) which has its own custom panel. Even if they had plesk or something similar for migration, it wouldn't help because I want to move to slicehost/linode and they are non-managed server, so they don't use plesk/cpanel (to the best of my knowledge).

Almost all migration needs to be manual, its not difficult, its just pain in the butt repetitive manual work and has potential for lot of things going south.

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