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 fmw » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 12:11 PM UTC

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…

I did a short and non-representative comparison between the ping times to my Linode in London (http://vix.io) and hosteurope.de. From my home in the Netherlands my Linode VPS is 10ms faster (~31ms for Linode versus ~41ms for hosteurope.de). Considering that hosteurope.de is hosted in Köln (Germany) which is about 190km from where I live the routing to London is a lot better.

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

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Post by j_baker » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 12:30 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #30

Chunkhost.com is giving away half-gig instances right now.

Just decided to try these guys out. You can't complain too much if it's free! Plus, their pricing seems like it will be reasonable once it gets out of beta.

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

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Post by j_baker » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 1:32 PM UTC

Ixiaus wrote: post #16

+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.

I've actually had webfaction before and was quite satisfied with them. However, I was wanting to use something with just a little bit more hackability. Thus, I'm looking for a VPS which will allow me root access.

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

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Post by middus » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 1:51 PM UTC

wlievens wrote: post #106

hosteurope.de dirt cheat: good vps with loads of ram, disk and traffic for $20 or $30 per month.

Absolutely! Great company. Though the KIS is a bit clunky.

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

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Post by ralphc » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 2:49 PM UTC

For my personal projects my main consideration was price, I found fsckvps.com. For $12.95 a month I get 512MB memory, 30GB disk and 400GB transfers a month.

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

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Post by ideamonk » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 2:54 PM UTC

Free Yahoo Developer Accelerators from Joyent, they apply same terms and conditions and AUP to free developer accounts as well as their customers - http://is.gd/5uR3I

PCSmart Hosting is cheap at 4.95 pounds / month - http://is.gd/5uR4E unmanaged linux vps, pure bliss for the low price.

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

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Post by Pistos2 » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:04 PM UTC

I use WebbyNode as my main VPS provider, but over the years I've made enough friends on the Net as to be able to get shell accounts on several servers, as well. Add to that a machine at home which is used for less important stuff.

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

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Post by Keyframe » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:08 PM UTC

I have a server at fdcservers and one at theplanet - both "unmetered" 100Mbps, no problems so far (I'm with theplanet for more than 5 years, since ev1)

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

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Post by mark_l_watson » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:13 PM UTC

I prepayed for a 3 year reservation for a small Amazon EC2 instance and I am very happy with that decision because I frequently deploy customer projects to AWS, and any experience from my own projects is a big help.

I also permanently rent a small VPS from RimuHosting. I like their customer service and their low costs.

And, the elephant in the room is Google AppEngine. I have several deployed apps and an effective price of free is difficult to beat. Surprisingly (to me) I have had no customer interest in deploying to AppEngine. I have had ongoing problems using JRuby+Sinatra on AppEngine, but the Java support is fairly much hassle free.

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

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Post by vlisivka » Sun, Dec 20, 2009, 3:49 PM UTC

RackSpace Cloud ($10 per month for 256MB instance w/o traffic). RSC allows me to follow modern administration practice ( http://vlisivka.pp.ua/en/modern_administration ) even at my own private host.