I just wondering what people's current experiences are with cheap Linux web hosting. Right now I'm using vps.net and while they're cheap it's not uncommon to have a 10hr downtime (which I'm in the middle of this morning). They don't seem to have any sort of basic monitoring of their nodes to automatically be notified when a system is down (at least not on an individual node level), they rely on me contacting them. Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues. -Tim
On 14-10-02 09:49 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
I just wondering what people's current experiences are with cheap Linux web hosting. Right now I'm using vps.net <http://vps.net> and while they're cheap it's not uncommon to have a 10hr downtime (which I'm in the middle of this morning). They don't seem to have any sort of basic monitoring of their nodes to automatically be notified when a system is down (at least not on an individual node level), they rely on me contacting them.
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have used HostPapa for a number of years and I am quite happy with them. Never any down time that I noticed. And they added a PHP add-on that I requested. That impressed me on a shared host. -- Stephen
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com> wrote:
I have used HostPapa for a number of years and I am quite happy with them.
Never any down time that I noticed. And they added a PHP add-on that I requested. That impressed me on a shared host.
I guess I should have specified that I was looking for non-shared hosting. I usually need to install my own things that aren't available in shared hosting environments. I also like the freedom of being able to install and run whatever I like, especially services that run in the background.
This is a VPS. You own the box. You can install whatever OS you want (Linux, a couple BSDs, even WIndows), wherever you want. The machine is yours. Even if you kill it (rm -rf / or dd if/dev/zero of=/dev/sda), you can go to the console and reinstall from scratch. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2014-10-02 11:54 GMT-03:00 Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com> wrote:
I have used HostPapa for a number of years and I am quite happy with them.
Never any down time that I noticed. And they added a PHP add-on that I requested. That impressed me on a shared host.
I guess I should have specified that I was looking for non-shared hosting. I usually need to install my own things that aren't available in shared hosting environments. I also like the freedom of being able to install and run whatever I like, especially services that run in the background.
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet). I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
I am using frantech.ca for more than a year, and only got a couple hours of downtime. One day a RAID disk died, my server went offline for 4 hours, but I haven't lost any data. And they are cheap. I managed to get a 256MB KVM VPS 250GB Dedicated Space 2500GB Transfer for under USD 6/mo. If anyone is interested, signing in using https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=626 will give me one free month of hosting. Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2014-10-02 11:10 GMT-03:00 Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet).
I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
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I've been using pair.com for over ten years, and I started using inmotionhosting.com recently for another project. No downtime or lost data on either provider. Alex On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using frantech.ca for more than a year, and only got a couple hours of downtime. One day a RAID disk died, my server went offline for 4 hours, but I haven't lost any data.
And they are cheap. I managed to get a 256MB KVM VPS 250GB Dedicated Space 2500GB Transfer for under USD 6/mo.
If anyone is interested, signing in using https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=626 will give me one free month of hosting.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.
2014-10-02 11:10 GMT-03:00 Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet).
I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
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Wow, that's some pretty good deals! I have a couple projects that need lots of storage space but memory and cpu are secondary. It seems their 250GB unit is $7/mo now, but that's still amazing. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using frantech.ca for more than a year, and only got a couple hours of downtime. One day a RAID disk died, my server went offline for 4 hours, but I haven't lost any data.
And they are cheap. I managed to get a 256MB KVM VPS 250GB Dedicated Space 2500GB Transfer for under USD 6/mo.
If anyone is interested, signing in using https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=626 will give me one free month of hosting.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.
2014-10-02 11:10 GMT-03:00 Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet).
I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
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If you pay one year in advance you will pay $5.36/mo. That's what I did... Now I have my own private 250GB Dropbox (owncloud) paying a few dollars... And my own VPN provider, seedbox, testing webserver, DNS server... it's fun! Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. 2014-10-02 11:50 GMT-03:00 Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com>:
Wow, that's some pretty good deals! I have a couple projects that need lots of storage space but memory and cpu are secondary. It seems their 250GB unit is $7/mo now, but that's still amazing.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr@gmail.com> wrote:
I am using frantech.ca for more than a year, and only got a couple hours of downtime. One day a RAID disk died, my server went offline for 4 hours, but I haven't lost any data.
And they are cheap. I managed to get a 256MB KVM VPS 250GB Dedicated Space 2500GB Transfer for under USD 6/mo.
If anyone is interested, signing in using https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=626 will give me one free month of hosting.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.
2014-10-02 11:10 GMT-03:00 Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com>:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet).
I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
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