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Use one decent server for all your side projects. $20/month is not very much, unless it's just sitting there doing nothing. Alternatively, Hetzner will give yo

by TillE 14y ago

Use one decent server for all your side projects. $20/month is not very much, unless it's just sitting there doing nothing. Alternatively, Hetzner will give you a 512MB VM for about $10.34/month.

nobleach 14y ago
https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ will give you a 20GB SSD and 512MB of RAM for 5 bucks a month. Perfect for those little side projects.
- carbocation 14y ago
  I think buying a few raspberries pi is competitive for a few projects over the course of a year.
  - superuser2 14y ago
    Good luck with the upload bandwidth on residential cable. Also in some cases simultaneous up/down kills the download speed. I guess if you had google fibre, though.
    - Vieira 14y ago
      http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/ http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/
- nwh 14y ago
  Signing up with SSDTWEET nets you $11 of account credit too.
  - nobleach 14y ago
    Saw that tweet this morning!
acabal 14y ago
That's what I do now, but it's a pain to serve multiple HTTPS sites and an extra pain (practically impossible with default HTTPS in browsers nowadays) to serve mixed HTTP/HTTPS. I'd much prefer sandboxed Linodes for all my little projects, but if I bought a Linode at $20/month for each of them I'd be poor pretty fast :)
- daakus 14y ago
  You can get an extra IP for $1/month to solve the SSL problem (or alternatively look at something like Cloudflare).
  - andrewmunsell 14y ago
    Which, unfortunately would cost another $20 a month (+ $5 a month extra for each additional site with SSL).
- psychometry 14y ago
  Serving multiple HTTPS sites is a piece of cake with nginx. What does your stack consist of?
- yid 14y ago
  Not sure why you say that, why not just support SNI-based browsers (i.e., NOT IE) to allow multiple TLS connections? And what does the difficulty of mixed HTTP/HTTPS have to do with the server? SNI: http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-certificates-using-sni.htm http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-cert...
  - acabal 14y ago
    In Apache, one server can serve both HTTP and HTTPS (and multiple HTTPS with SNI). The problem occurs when you have both on the server with name-based virtual hosts and you request the HTTPS version of the HTTP site. If Apache can't find an HTTPS virtual host for the requested domain (because it doesn't exist, the site we're asking for only has an HTTP version), it will default to serving the first HTTPS site it finds instead. This means your domain will serve the wrong site and probably show an SSL warning to boot because the domains don't match. Normally this isn't a problem, except that some browsers nowadays default to requesting the HTTPS version first. That means if you're serving an HTTP site and an unrelated HTTPS site, and a user accesses the HTTP site via an HTTPS connection, there's a good chance you'll end up serving the unrelated HTTPS site plus an SSL warning instead, because that's how Apache does things.
gcr 14y ago
DigitalOcean VPSs go for 512MB, 20GB disk at $5 per month/0.7¢ per hour. Prgmr is also really great too, 64MB for $5/month (by comparison, 512MB for $12/month). Run by an HN fellow, so that's also a plus. EDIT: goodness gracious, i didn't realize that literally everyone in this thread is mentioning DO when I wrote this post!
mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm running my micro-VPS on TransIP which offers 1GB mem, 50GB HD, 1TB traffic for €10/month. It's not the same as $10 a month but it's less than $20 and their support is excellent (5+ year customer, but more for their excellent DNS management console.)
- Zariel 14y ago
  Unfortunately its all in Dutch, otherwise I would buy one on the spot. /e Apparently google sent me to the dutch one by default! Thanks google!
- moozeek 14y ago
  Didn't know TransIP, thanks for the tip! Your package is only € 5/month now - for €10 you get 4GB/150GB/5TB which is only the quarter of the price of an almost equal (no SSD, but more HD and traffic) DO instance. https://www.transip.eu/vps/pricing-and-purchase/ https://www.transip.eu/vps/pricing-and-purchase/ Almost unbelievable.
  - mtrimpe 14y ago
    That reduced price is for the first month only I'm afraid... Still a great deal though :)

by TillE 14y ago

Use one decent server for all your side projects. $20/month is not very much, unless it's just sitting there doing nothing. Alternatively, Hetzner will give you a 512MB VM for about $10.34/month.

nobleach 14y ago

https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ will give you a 20GB SSD and 512MB of RAM for 5 bucks a month. Perfect for those little side projects.

carbocation 14y ago
I think buying a few raspberries pi is competitive for a few projects over the course of a year.
- superuser2 14y ago
  Good luck with the upload bandwidth on residential cable. Also in some cases simultaneous up/down kills the download speed. I guess if you had google fibre, though.
  - Vieira 14y ago
    http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/ http://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/
nwh 14y ago
Signing up with SSDTWEET nets you $11 of account credit too.
- nobleach 14y ago
  Saw that tweet this morning!

acabal 14y ago

That's what I do now, but it's a pain to serve multiple HTTPS sites and an extra pain (practically impossible with default HTTPS in browsers nowadays) to serve mixed HTTP/HTTPS. I'd much prefer sandboxed Linodes for all my little projects, but if I bought a Linode at $20/month for each of them I'd be poor pretty fast :)

daakus 14y ago
You can get an extra IP for $1/month to solve the SSL problem (or alternatively look at something like Cloudflare).
- andrewmunsell 14y ago
  Which, unfortunately would cost another $20 a month (+ $5 a month extra for each additional site with SSL).
psychometry 14y ago
Serving multiple HTTPS sites is a piece of cake with nginx. What does your stack consist of?
yid 14y ago
Not sure why you say that, why not just support SNI-based browsers (i.e., NOT IE) to allow multiple TLS connections? And what does the difficulty of mixed HTTP/HTTPS have to do with the server? SNI: http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-certificates-using-sni.htm http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-cert...
- acabal 14y ago
  In Apache, one server can serve both HTTP and HTTPS (and multiple HTTPS with SNI). The problem occurs when you have both on the server with name-based virtual hosts and you request the HTTPS version of the HTTP site. If Apache can't find an HTTPS virtual host for the requested domain (because it doesn't exist, the site we're asking for only has an HTTP version), it will default to serving the first HTTPS site it finds instead. This means your domain will serve the wrong site and probably show an SSL warning to boot because the domains don't match. Normally this isn't a problem, except that some browsers nowadays default to requesting the HTTPS version first. That means if you're serving an HTTP site and an unrelated HTTPS site, and a user accesses the HTTP site via an HTTPS connection, there's a good chance you'll end up serving the unrelated HTTPS site plus an SSL warning instead, because that's how Apache does things.

gcr 14y ago

DigitalOcean VPSs go for 512MB, 20GB disk at $5 per month/0.7¢ per hour. Prgmr is also really great too, 64MB for $5/month (by comparison, 512MB for $12/month). Run by an HN fellow, so that's also a plus. EDIT: goodness gracious, i didn't realize that literally everyone in this thread is mentioning DO when I wrote this post!

mtrimpe 14y ago

I'm running my micro-VPS on TransIP which offers 1GB mem, 50GB HD, 1TB traffic for €10/month. It's not the same as $10 a month but it's less than $20 and their support is excellent (5+ year customer, but more for their excellent DNS management console.)

Zariel 14y ago
Unfortunately its all in Dutch, otherwise I would buy one on the spot. /e Apparently google sent me to the dutch one by default! Thanks google!
moozeek 14y ago
Didn't know TransIP, thanks for the tip! Your package is only € 5/month now - for €10 you get 4GB/150GB/5TB which is only the quarter of the price of an almost equal (no SSD, but more HD and traffic) DO instance. https://www.transip.eu/vps/pricing-and-purchase/ https://www.transip.eu/vps/pricing-and-purchase/ Almost unbelievable.
- mtrimpe 14y ago
  That reduced price is for the first month only I'm afraid... Still a great deal though :)