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ITT: Op asks for honest opinions about webhosts because other sites just give me a bunch of referral links. Gets a bunch of referral links. But thanks for those who've offered good advice, I think I might go for digitalocean.
Just try it, you have 60days money back guarantee. But it's not a complete vps.
Also, at the risk of triggering your "sponsored by a company" radar, here's my promo code, which will get you $10 off:
With DigitalOcean, the SSD will definitely help, but I'd look at the $20 plan just for the RAM. However expect to have to tweak OwnCloud's environment a little to get the best out of it.
In order of price (low to high): DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS.
Take your pick. They're all good.
I have an intel NUC [1] in my house, in the DMZ of my router, and running a script to change it's ip address at my DNS provider when my house ip address changes
I've got a lot of stuff running on that, which can be accessed by me from anywhere, but it lives in my house, and so enjoys more legal protections and physical security than a VPS.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Next-Computing-Black-BOXDCCP847D...
There's no reason to deal with shared hosting providers anymore. VPSes are so incredibly cheap that it doesn't make any sense. In order of price (low to high): DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS. Take your pick. They're all good.
I just use DigitalOcean and don't think about it much anymore. They're reliable, flexible and cheap. Also, at the risk of triggering your "sponsored by a company" radar, here's my promo code, which will get you $10 off: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9fad2cc71fbc
AWS kills me on the bandwidth charges. The cost-calculators are practically worthless unless you're really good at estimating your potential bandwidth usage.