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Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?

6 points by martinwnet 14y ago

This was asked about 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005067 What is everyone using these days? (Of particular interest to me would be hosting with free usage tiers)

iamgopal 14y ago
Google App Engine. From Personal Sites to Projects like inqzin.com, everything hosted on App Engine. Its free and pretty reliable.
antidoh 14y ago
With a Virtual Private Server (VPS) you are your own "master and commander." You're root. I use linode for my VPS. slicehost is similar. They both offer decent publicly available documentation/tutorials, so if you can't find an answer or path in "your" providers docs, you can hop over to the other guy's. With shared hosting you're a user on their (possibly virtual) server, with permission to do things. You're not root. pair.com offers shared hosting, I used to use them, very stable and sober company. http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/ might lead you to a low cost provider, I haven't looked down that path. I know a lot of people use http://www.bluehost.com/ http://www.bluehost.com/. I don't know if they're more VPS or more shared host. I know a lot of people use it to host actual businesses; a lot of those sites use Wordpress and various shopping cart and payment solutions.
anujkk 14y ago
These are what I use : VPS Hosting - Linode(http://www.linode.com/ http://www.linode.com/) Shared Hosting - WebFaction(http://www.webfaction.com/ http://www.webfaction.com/)
sys_argv 14y ago
http://www.thehosthouse.co.uk http://www.thehosthouse.co.uk or http://www.edis.at http://www.edis.at If you are on a budget and/in Europe. I use both. No problems so far(Its been almost a year).
countessa 14y ago
webfaction www.webfaction.com
no_news_is 14y ago
Another vote for Google App Engine. Easiest to set up that I've found with a free tier. I was looking at AppFog too but never really got started. Anyone want to explain why iamgopal's post got marked as link - dead?
malux85 14y ago
Another vote for Linode .. slightly pricer than others but high quality + root access for my zany schemes
padseeker 14y ago
I like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and command line to do basic things, but beyond that I have some trouble. After doing research to find a better hosting option I went with Webbynode. http://webbynode.com http://webbynode.com I use it for my rails based startup padseeker.com. It makes pushing code via git as easy as it is for heroku, but it is more flexible, i.e. allows file uploads w/o using s3, you can use mysql or postgres (heroku only allows postgres without another service). It's been overall a good experience, very little down time. Heroku might be better for certain things, but webbynode has been perfect for my needs. It's not free though - lowest plan is $15 per month. I know digital ocean starts as low as $5 per month. Dotcloud and Appfog are either free or cheap and seem comparable.
ohashi 14y ago
Just throwing this out there, my startup tracks which web hosting companies people like the most based on opinions shared in social media: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/ http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/ I am personally on liquidweb and aws. free tier on aws is great for testing stuff not on my local machines.
franklaemmer 14y ago
Here is my comparison of current and upcoming PHP Paas Hosting Services: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms/ http://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms... I strongly believe in this kind of service - old school hosting is dead meat in my eyes. Shameless Pug: We recently launched our own PHP PaaS
project23 14y ago
Shared: Bluehost VPS: Linode Other: AWS
kgutteridge 14y ago
For personal projects Shared:Bluehost VPS: Linode
klaut 14y ago
webfaction. I think they offer great value for money and their support is awesome :)
ishbits 14y ago
I'm currently using VPS services from buyvm.net. However, if business depends on it I've been using EC2 with good results.
Fundlab 14y ago
Webfaction is not the typical shared hosting. I got sold on this "We give you a full linux shell account with all the tools you need to compile anything you like, so our service is almost as flexible as a VPS. One big advantage of our shared hosting service is that we maintain the server and keep it secure for you. Also, the memory that we provide in our plans is the actual memory that is available to your application. With a VPS you also have to run the operating system, web server, database server etc in your allocated memory." http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting Personally I bundle this with Cloudflare and it's been flawless! Caveat: No CPanel! I find their control panel very intuitive to handle and uncluttered but if CPanel is what you're looking for then you're better off elsewhere
devb0x 14y ago
webfaction was a good one, i was with them for a long time. I now go VPS so I am in full control.
gadders 14y ago
Hosting24.com

6 points by martinwnet 14y ago

This was asked about 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005067 What is everyone using these days? (Of particular interest to me would be hosting with free usage tiers)

iamgopal 14y ago

Google App Engine. From Personal Sites to Projects like inqzin.com, everything hosted on App Engine. Its free and pretty reliable.

antidoh 14y ago

With a Virtual Private Server (VPS) you are your own "master and commander." You're root. I use linode for my VPS. slicehost is similar. They both offer decent publicly available documentation/tutorials, so if you can't find an answer or path in "your" providers docs, you can hop over to the other guy's. With shared hosting you're a user on their (possibly virtual) server, with permission to do things. You're not root. pair.com offers shared hosting, I used to use them, very stable and sober company. http://www.lowendbox.com/ http://www.lowendbox.com/ might lead you to a low cost provider, I haven't looked down that path. I know a lot of people use http://www.bluehost.com/ http://www.bluehost.com/. I don't know if they're more VPS or more shared host. I know a lot of people use it to host actual businesses; a lot of those sites use Wordpress and various shopping cart and payment solutions.

anujkk 14y ago

These are what I use : VPS Hosting - Linode(http://www.linode.com/ http://www.linode.com/) Shared Hosting - WebFaction(http://www.webfaction.com/ http://www.webfaction.com/)

sys_argv 14y ago

http://www.thehosthouse.co.uk http://www.thehosthouse.co.uk or http://www.edis.at http://www.edis.at If you are on a budget and/in Europe. I use both. No problems so far(Its been almost a year).

countessa 14y ago

webfaction www.webfaction.com

no_news_is 14y ago

Another vote for Google App Engine. Easiest to set up that I've found with a free tier. I was looking at AppFog too but never really got started. Anyone want to explain why iamgopal's post got marked as link - dead?

malux85 14y ago

Another vote for Linode .. slightly pricer than others but high quality + root access for my zany schemes

padseeker 14y ago

I like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and command line to do basic things, but beyond that I have some trouble. After doing research to find a better hosting option I went with Webbynode. http://webbynode.com http://webbynode.com I use it for my rails based startup padseeker.com. It makes pushing code via git as easy as it is for heroku, but it is more flexible, i.e. allows file uploads w/o using s3, you can use mysql or postgres (heroku only allows postgres without another service). It's been overall a good experience, very little down time. Heroku might be better for certain things, but webbynode has been perfect for my needs. It's not free though - lowest plan is $15 per month. I know digital ocean starts as low as $5 per month. Dotcloud and Appfog are either free or cheap and seem comparable.

ohashi 14y ago

Just throwing this out there, my startup tracks which web hosting companies people like the most based on opinions shared in social media: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/ http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/ I am personally on liquidweb and aws. free tier on aws is great for testing stuff not on my local machines.

franklaemmer 14y ago

Here is my comparison of current and upcoming PHP Paas Hosting Services: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms/ http://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms... I strongly believe in this kind of service - old school hosting is dead meat in my eyes. Shameless Pug: We recently launched our own PHP PaaS

project23 14y ago

Shared: Bluehost VPS: Linode Other: AWS

kgutteridge 14y ago

For personal projects Shared:Bluehost VPS: Linode

klaut 14y ago

webfaction. I think they offer great value for money and their support is awesome :)

ishbits 14y ago

I'm currently using VPS services from buyvm.net. However, if business depends on it I've been using EC2 with good results.

Fundlab 14y ago

Webfaction is not the typical shared hosting. I got sold on this "We give you a full linux shell account with all the tools you need to compile anything you like, so our service is almost as flexible as a VPS. One big advantage of our shared hosting service is that we maintain the server and keep it secure for you. Also, the memory that we provide in our plans is the actual memory that is available to your application. With a VPS you also have to run the operating system, web server, database server etc in your allocated memory." http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting Personally I bundle this with Cloudflare and it's been flawless! Caveat: No CPanel! I find their control panel very intuitive to handle and uncluttered but if CPanel is what you're looking for then you're better off elsewhere

devb0x 14y ago

webfaction was a good one, i was with them for a long time. I now go VPS so I am in full control.

gadders 14y ago

Hosting24.com