[olug] OT: Website hosting question

[Dave Rowe]

Slicehost was bought by Rackspace, but pricing should be fairly similar.

I've been with Linode for several years, and have had no issues that
were under their control (ie, data center outage / routing).

I'd recommend them for getting started.  Likewise, AWS EC2 isn't a bad option.

-Dave

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> virtual machines are quite different from dedicated servers. Virtual
> machines can be access via console generally so long as the host machine is
> available (which is managed by the companay you're purchasing vm's from)
>
> I'd be careful about a $10/mo VM with 2gb of ram, that sounds like a very
> oversubscribed Virtualhost to me.
>
> Linode is reputable and reliable (cheapest vm is $20).  I think slicehost
> should be fairly decent aswell, not sure what they run though as its been a
> while.
> --Jay
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:08 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> URPad.net allows rebooting through a web page.
>> On Sep 6, 2012 11:05 AM, "Lou Duchez" <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I've had bad experiences even with that, where I can't get help with a
>> > reboot or accessing the machine if there's a problem.  What you recommend
>> > makes sense, but never again, not for me.
>> >
>> >  I would probably look at picking up a $10/mo virtual server and managing
>> >> it
>> >> myself.
>> >> --Jay
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  If there's any chance you have access to an Internet pipe of some kind
>> >>> fast enough for your needs, I will always, always recommend putting
>> >>> together your own server. I've had enough bad experiences with tech
>> >>> support
>> >>> to be firmly convinced that, if I want someone to pay proper attention
>> to
>> >>> my server, that someone will have to be me.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yeah, setup is challenging if you've never done it before.  But avail
>> >>> yourself of Google, ask questions on some Linux group or another, take
>> >>> good
>> >>> notes, and you'll get through it.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>   Anybody have any suggestions for a good hosting company?  I am
>> >>> currently
>> >>>
>> >>>> with DreamHost and pay 10 bucks a month for unlimited bandwidth and
>> >>>> storage. The problem is that DreamHosts servers often become
>> unbearibly
>> >>>> slow. Thanks in advance for any tips.
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