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As others have mentioned, Linode is great value. Pair it with Dokku and you've got an even cheaper / more customizable (but not scalable) Heroku. However, be w
by Benjamin_Dobell 7y ago
As others have mentioned, Linode is great value. Pair it with Dokku and you've got an even cheaper / more customizable (but not scalable) Heroku.
However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files (as opposed to lots of data / large files). It's file-based (not block-based) backup, and I can confirm it does fail. In our case, we weren't storing tiny files either, they were images uploaded to our infrastructure. Granted, don't do that(!), use S3.
Also, regarding AWS/S3, there's a plethora of ways to get into AWS's Activate program (https://aws.amazon.com/activate/ https://aws.amazon.com/activate/) which includes a decent chunk of free credits.
- 0815test 7y ago> However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files... Huh? Wouldn't it be a lot better to be wary of that service, thus lowering the risk that you'll be weary of it at some point?
- Benjamin_Dobell 7y agoSorry, I was weary when I wrote 'weary', whilst I meant to write 'wary'. I'll be more wary of being weary next time.