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Hi Mike! Thanks for offering to help.

I am pretty good at programming but I know almost nothing about hosting or servers or hardware. I would like to make a website with a Go/MySQL back end (I know it's weird, but I love it). Do you have any recommendations for hosting? Should I use a cloud host like EC2 or Rackspace's cloud or should I use some other hosting service?

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I'm not very familiar with Go, unfortunately and not sure of it's runtime requirements. I'd go with kevinburke's recommendation. The provider seems pretty solid at quick glance. If you can get Go on EC2 or Rackspace Cloud, I'm certain your experience will be optimal. The only conerns you might have with cloud hosting are IP address which have been blacklisted for various reasons (used on boxes for spamming, running abusive bots, scraping, etc). Otherwise, you should be fine.

I've been using Webfaction, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's about $10 a month, you get SSH access into your box, and they have really good customer/technical support. http://webfaction.com

+1 For that. I really love webfaction and it was the best idea to go with that as I didn't know at first how to configure my server. It has great "default" configuration and practices. Also, as Mike said, the customer support is great if not the best I've seen.

And, as you'll become better at configuring your stuff and will want more control over all the nifty details, you could then switch to a vps.

Also, don't forget that Heroku now support more platform.. in fact, everything python is supported, but the platform is strong enough to support anything.. even if it's not as userfriendly as the ruby or python way.

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