Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by qeorge » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 2:44 AM UTC

I am a very happy VPS customer of WiredTree.com. Their prices are great, servers are fast, and the support is top-notch.

Edit: root, WHM/Cpanel, etc as well

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

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Post by rsclarke » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 2:58 AM UTC

mantas wrote: post #15

+1 for Linode

From a European/UK standpoint by far the best value for money with their recent launch of a data center in London.

I found the VPS market in the UK was dead, with very little that excited me, the London data center was Christmas coming early.

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

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Post by b3b0p » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:11 AM UTC

fendale wrote: post #4

prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up)

prgmr.com customer also. Works perfect, no problems of note for me. Luke is doing a great job.

On twitter: http://twitter.com/prgmrcom

Edit: He also has a book: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Xen-Practical-System-Administrato...

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

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Post by AdamGibbins » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:16 AM UTC

adrinavarro wrote: post #63

I have been using OVH to host my main projects They offer dedicated servers for the hobby market, at unbeatable prices ( http://kimsufi.fr , you'll have to look for your local OVH distributor), but also top-level servers at very good price. Plus they're very good (have awesome peering/transit quality, unbeatable prices, 3 datacenters and 10 years of experience). For my own thing, I've got a shared hosting at SurpassH…

OVH are - OK

But they have absolutely terrible support, heaven forbid if your server goes down or experiences a hardware failure - its often a battle just to get them to replace hardware. They also throttle FTP traffic.

Although, apart from the throttling and assuming your box never dies, yes OVH are good.

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

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Post by jmonegro » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:21 AM UTC

thwarted wrote: post #72

jmonegro wrote: post #36

Heroku, hands down. It's free unless it gets serious. (ruby only, though)

If it's ruby only, then one obviously doesn't have root access.

On heroku, no (that's the point - it takes a bit to get used to but it's worth it), but on another host, why would you not have root access?

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

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Post by jmonegro » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:23 AM UTC

Before Heroku, I used Webbynode (http://webbynode.com). It has root access and much more, all you need, and it's not expensive. They're also very good.

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

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Post by jlin » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 4:30 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #11

I've been very satisfied with RootBSD so far.

I'm also a happy rootbsd user. It's been rock solid, with very quick answers to any questions via their support emails.

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

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Post by spooneybarger » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 4:47 AM UTC

if i needed need stupid easy backups, i would go with linode, as it is, i go with slicehost.

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

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Post by awt » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 5:04 AM UTC

github for static pages + heroku.

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

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Post by chrischen » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 5:54 AM UTC

I'm using Slicehost right now at $20/mo, but I did calculations, and if you pay for what you use on Rackspace cloud (and assuming you use almost nothing), Rackspace cloud comes out less than $20 per month. I'd be switching over if I weren't so damn lazy.