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Poll: Which hosting provider do you use?

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Thanks. This is great.

Could you please also allow downloading data as CSV or Excel?

I'm using an EDIS[1] KVM and am quite happy with their small offering (I don't really need a whole lot of disk space). Speed is good, reliability/uptime is good, support is quick and friendly, and they have good locations all over Europe (I'm using the Frankfurt/Germany DC).

[1]: http://www.edis.at

EDIS looks very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I use Linode and Rackspace for VPS's and Dreamhost and Bluehost for web sites.

Dreamhost has gone downhill over the years in a variety of ways. Customer support, server response etc.

Bluehost I use very lightly but it has been fine.

Rackspace? Well, here's one of my Nagios logs from 24 minutes ago

[2013-10-15 17:00:11] HOST ALERT: mondragon.whatsanovel.com;DOWN;SOFT;1;PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 83%, RTA = 5656.74 ms

Yesterday it conked out nine times, to recover within ten seconds. I have to say I heard about this sort of thing before signing up.

Linode has been fantastic. Great uptimes, free additions of bandwidth, disk space and so forth.

Others have mentioned Ramnode here. That's a service I might consider if I was expanding. One reason I never signed up is last time around their new slots were full. Some services sell when they're overloaded, but they don't - why is why they're popular I guess. I may get a VPS there in the next few months and try them out.

DigitalOcean. We moved from Rackspace, we pay half the price and get double the performance. I still miss private networks and additional storage, but everything else is great.

DigitalOcean has private networks now, no?

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/introducing-private-...

Digital Ocean has one private network shared amongst all of it's customers.

I believe that you can have a software defined network private to only your servers with Rackspace.

Ah, thank you for explaining.

Interesting. Going to check em out.

I use a bunch of them - AWS, Linode, Rackspace, DigtalOcean - as well as Hetzner and NineFold. I also "self host" both at home and at work with a few linux boxen, a Mac Mini, and a bunch of RaspberryPis.

I also use webhosting (as opposed to a vps) from a bunch of WHM hosting providors, Dreamhost, and for a handful of WordPress our clients who can easily justify the cost - WPEngine.

http://chunkhost.com recently bumped up their plans and lowered their prices. $9/month gets you a gig of ram on a 30 gig SSD, and I'm only paying $6.75/month with a discount they gave me as a beta member.

I've been incredibly happy with them.

I use rimuhosting. Been with them 8 years and love their customer support (they're not afraid to dig in and help you with technical issues). Best of all, you can order their VPS and scale that out to a full dedicated server with minimal downtime. I recommend them to everyone I can.

I have a Dell Poweredge 2U in my basement that I have been playing with lately. I replaced the 15k SAS drives with regular ol SATA drives the other day and wanted to see how they fared against some of the VPS's out there. (Reason: Twin 73gb drives, while they might be pretty quick, doesn't leave a lot of room for a home lab type setup where I want to run a lot of different VMs)

The command used for this was:

    hdparm -Tt /device

Not even sure if this is a really great way to benchmark drives, but here are the results:

Digital Ocean where my drive was /dev/vda:

     Timing cached reads:   17246 MB in  2.00 seconds = 8632.56 MB/sec
     Timing buffered disk reads: 892 MB in  3.00 seconds = 297.20 MB/sec

Next was Linode where my drive was /dev/xvda:

     Timing cached reads:   12680 MB in  1.99 seconds = 6381.79 MB/sec
     Timing buffered disk reads: 614 MB in  3.00 seconds = 204.66 MB/sec

Was expecting a more dramatic difference considering DO uses SSD's and Linode does not (I am not in the SSD beta). When you compare consumer grade HD's and SSD's the difference is night and day.

I do not have results from my Poweredge because it's currently powered off. The fucking thing sounds like a C5 doing an assault landing on a tattered runway during a hail storm.

Take this all with a grain of salt just sharing since we're comparing hosts here.

Finally, I love Linode and have never had any shit with them. Digital Ocean is also great although I have only really dipped my toes into their stuff. Have not tried their recently launched internal-networking yet. Also, unfortunately you cannot (easily) downsize a box, only expand one. Rather you need to create a backup and then a new box and restore the backup to that new box or something. Seems silly. Linode lets me do this, and I do it for some ghetto on-demand scaling from time to time.

Sidenote: If you wanna muck around with FreeBSD I had some good experience with doing that on Rackspace. Doing it on EC2 is not as rewarding.

Datashack.net. Hard to pass up a $35 dedicated box with tons of bandwidth.

The staff there is very helpful also and have been responsive to any questions/issues I had.

I user appharbor.com . Pretty good provider for .Net.

Can't say enough about ASmallOrange's service. Independent company, green, prompt responses, never had a problem. They've even led me by the hand to fix a couple issues I overlooked. I've switched many of my customers to them over the years. As shared hosts go, I haven't had a better experience.

Other: BuyVM. Very happy with them, and they're doing free upgrades to SSD in the near future.

WiredTree is a wonderful VPS host. I think the difference between them and some of these bigger companies mentioned is that there is a level of personal care and a relationship between customer and company, which is rare in the hosting world.

I use digital ocean for my personal stuff, AWS is being used by our startup.

I've heard that Heroku has become incredibly slow (thus expensive to scale) in comparison to alternatives like plain AWS or even the Azure platform.

Have you guys seen this happen?

If you are looking at the other extreme - i.e extremely cheap VPS - check out http://lowendbox.com/ - you can get some pretty decent ones for $10 a year

I've heard about those cheap VPS that simply disappear from existence.

Unless is something completely disposable, I'd rather pay 5$/month and go with something like Digital Ocean that I can be pretty sure will last for years.

Most are kiddie hosts who rent a dedi for a few months, install OVZ, and get on the front page the next day. That's what happens when you go with ColoCrossing - instant post to LEB to you.

Linode, AWS, HostVirtual, Digital Ocean... Just anything but a LowEndBox VPS.

Avoid LowEndBox.

Owned by ColoCrossing, and ColoCrossing providers get posted ASAP. They also lied about owning it for a year, until someone found out.

Remember that you get what you pay for. I had a very cheap VPS ($1.61 per month) for a few months until it went down. I got an email 2 days later saying that the hosting company was being kicked out of their data center because one of their clients had been the victim of a DDoS attack, and they were in the process of overnight shipping all of their servers across the country to a new data center. Luckily I was just hosting some non-critical personal projects, so I wasn't adversely affected. In the end they were down for 5 days, which under the circumstances is actually pretty impressive.

Hetzner. Great price and hardware, but disks failures are a joke though.

I use bluehost but will be switching to 1and1 soon. Seems to me that bluehost has gone downhill and loading any of my sites on there has become quite slow and annoying.

https://vpsdime.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0 is amazing?

Rackspace, by virtue of their Slicehost acquisition. And AWS for temporary / experimental environments. EC2 for playing with Hadoop and what-not.

Other: SegPub.

I do not recommend them. I can't get in touch via ticket, twitter, email, phone, and they let my domains expire while charging for them.

I use DigitalOcean for my (rapidly disappearing) PHP stuff and (shameless plug, am co-founder) PythonAnywhere for my Python stuff.

Leaseweb. I like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeaseWeb

HostVirtual - http://www.vr.org

Fast support, starts at $10, Xen PV

wiredtree.com - have used them for over 6 years, best customer service I've ever received hands down.

Servint has been excellent for me, as a MediaTemple and GoDaddy exile. www.servint.com

A couple of beefy servers racked at a local DC, can't beat the price+performance.

No love for our very own prgmr?

sorry added now :)

I use EngineYard which provides automation and great support on top of EC2.

Hetzner. You should really add it to the options.

online.net. Very cheap dedi servers, very happy with them. I have used Linode before, a little pricey, but support was outstanding.

We host our couple of boxes in hetzner.

Other: ramnode

Windows Azure

Their discounted pricing has since expired, but Azure has great, stupid-simple UX that a complete novice could figure out

HostEurope and happy with it.

OVH

yep! Just got one a week ago, their pricing is cheap, and their servers are great.

No liquidweb listed????

We chose and have continued to use LiquidWeb because of an hn post 3 years ago. They are have wonderful to work with, very few hiccups.

Great to hear that!

added as a choice

Other: Pair, Pagodabox

Heroku and AWS mostly

aws, softlayer, serverbeach/peer1, networkredux

Other: RamNode

hostmonster.com has been very good for me.

-bowerbird

softlayer.com

Same here. We're on their catalyst program.

wiredtree.com is a good one IMO

Wpengine

Hetzner?

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