Linode. Support is great, service is great, pricing is good, and seems less "cowboyish" than Digital Ocean and others.
Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#12Heroku for backend, automatically grow or shrink resources, nothing to maintain, nothing to configure and tons of services available alongside it. Netlify for frontend, it is a static hosting service with some neat features like url rewriting that lets you proxy e.g. /api to a backend without revealing api keys and under the same origin / domain. What really draws me to this is: - no servers or software to maintain -…
Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#13Microsoft Azure
+ Admin portal is good
+ Git Deploy to "Websites" is slick with no setup (builds binaries)
+ NodeJS / C#
+ Azure Integration in Visual Studio
+ Aggressive pricing
The other reason is there are other services that I can use if I don't want to build my own.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#14I use RunAbove[1] usually. Mostly because it's nearby (low latency), based on OpenStack (opensource and all the tools works ootb), and inexpensive.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#15Microsoft Azure + Admin portal is good + Git Deploy to "Websites" is slick with no setup (builds binaries) + NodeJS / C# + Azure Integration in Visual Studio + Aggressive pricing The other reason is there are other services that I can use if I don't want to build my own.
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Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#16Heroku for backend, automatically grow or shrink resources, nothing to maintain, nothing to configure and tons of services available alongside it. Netlify for frontend, it is a static hosting service with some neat features like url rewriting that lets you proxy e.g. /api to a backend without revealing api keys and under the same origin / domain. What really draws me to this is: - no servers or software to maintain -…
Why netlify and not S3 + CloudFront?
The final outcome is the same - static files on a cdn - so it won't always matter but netlify lets you:
1) run a build process
2) own domain with automatic ssl and redirecting to w/e www-or-not, https-only etc
3) deploy with git push
4) url rewriting, header inserting, proxying
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#17I use AWS:
- Everything integrates with it, there's a lot of tooling
- Safety of the herd
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#18Azure, awesome PaaS services, very easy to set up, good documentation, good pricing, very good performance and I really like the fact that they are working really really hard on Azure. Big new stuff is being released every month.
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#19Digital Ocean - I only want to build off base Linux VM, I do not want to be locked into S3 + SQS + ... - Price is right for young startups - Speed is nice
I love Digital Ocean, I have been using them a while now.
I like the UI, the referral programme and the speed of there whole spinning up process and finally I was once in arrears by 2 months and they were pretty lenient with payment.
Talking about referrals if you want a free $10 - https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c8555bae4f81
Re: Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
#20AWS - primarily S3 because their cloud storage is inexpensive and easy to administer.
Azure - websites and mobile services (and by extension SQL Database) because we use .NET