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I have two Linode's. They're so easy to spin up or spin down, it's a bright sunny day's walk in the park compared to any other service. Ahem, Amazon. You gotta

I have two Linode's. They're so easy to spin up or spin down, it's a bright sunny day's walk in the park compared to any other service. Ahem, Amazon. You gotta deal with all the typical unmanaged VPS stuff, but their support and the management of your linodes are second-to-none. I can't recommend them enough.

shepbook 14y ago
I second this recommendation. I've used a number of services. AWS is great for testing. Rackspace is fine too. However, for my everyday usage, Linode is wonderful and pleasant to use.
nycacorp 14y ago
Having worked in the technology industry for past 10 years; starting at Globat (Web Hosting) now owned by one of the mega Web Hosting consolidators (who also own BlueHost now); on a side note we were first to go Unlimited bandwidth (pure marketing to compete with BlueHost and it became an industry trend), and working for a CDN (NetDNA and MaxCDN) now; selfless promotion, every Website owner should have a Content Delivery Network these days. I have to go with Amazon EC2 for your one-time testing instances (location availablity to spin up a box in Ireland or Singapore is great). If your doing some more permentant stuff, then I would have to go with Linode or VPS.net which both are unmanaged vps's. I can't recommend Rackspace cloud, good for some things but not this area. If your looking for application hosting then page.ly or WPEngine is the way to go for Wordpress Hosting, for other application hosting it would be OnApp.