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

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Post by radu_floricica »

jaddison wrote: post #2

For VPS: I'm using Slicehost currently, but have seen some good reviews of Linode. I think I'll likely give them a spin in the new year instead of Slicehost - you get a bit more for your money, and can customize more from what I understand. I believe they both have quite good support from both community and company perspectives. Lots of good articles and tutorials. Some comparison links: recent: http://journal.uggeda…

I went for slicehost about a year ago right when they were bought by rackspace. At the time HN recommended them as the best choice by far, and I think they were. I never did have any problems with them at all this year, and everything from customer support to management interface has been great.

I'm a bit sad though that I'm also thinking about switching. Price/performance wise they're not even close to the top, plus they still don't have any data centers in Europe.

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

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Post by archon810 »

blasdel wrote: post #81
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.

You just lost all credibility for recommending Dreamhost. They're down more than a hooker in red light district and overload their boxes to an average load of 10+. I would not use them for any hosting again.

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

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Post by PeterHammar »

warp wrote: post #102

I use a share at www.gandi.net, 1 share isn't too expensive. In my experience they respond the same day to support emails, and you can enable temporary console access via their website in case you really messed up your installation. update: gandi is in france.

Gandi here too, great service.

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

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Post by blasdel »

archon810 wrote: post #107
blasdel wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You just lost all credibility for recommending Dreamhost. They're down more than a hooker in red light district and overload their boxes to an average load of 10+. I would not use them for any hosting again.

They're also cheap as hell, have great support, and are honest. They're pretty upfront about CPU being their only contended resource. They'll go as far as corralling CPU hogs together into ghettos so they don't affect normal customers as much.

Classic shared hosting is bullshit in general, but Dreamhost makes the most of it. They're the only one I'd ever recommend.

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