Mridul,
For India based VPS I would recommend http://www.vr.org/ - pretty good pricing and solid technical support. They have servers at Netmagic Mumbai. Hostgator India is good as well but not sure how's company's support after it got acquired sometimes back. If you are not looking for low latency/ India specific servers, then I would suggest following: 1. Contabo - http://contabo.com/?show=vps (best deal in terms of price but not 24x7 support) 2. Linode - http://www.linode.com/ - highly reliable but slightly on higher end along with Hostgator US (Servers in Softlayer datacenter) 3. Amazon EC2 instance in Singapore or US or even Europe might be another option but I just find more talk about "cloud" then of real value. Unless you have some really specific requirements, it won't make sense to go for a very low server for $25 or so a month with low resources. Also, bandwidth stays slightly expensive on Amazon. Around 12 cents per GB, so we are looking at around 6Rs/GB, so 600Rs for 100GB/out transfer. So just be aware that if you have high out bandwidth, it will put a significant cost on monthly bill. 4. You can also look at Tata IaaS with India + Singapore datacenter but I found support to be of way too low quality. Less on support on high on sales - http://instacompute.com/ So you can decide based on all these factors. I personally ran my servers with Softlayer, in-house datacenter with my previous employer and private colo's in US reliably in past. For cheap VPS part Europe always worked well with super cheap bandwidth along with better pricing in general. If bandwidth is not concern then only Indian servers will make sense (along with fact that if you love low latency and expecting more visitors from India). Keep in mind that performance will be awful for US/Europe users on Indian servers (200-300ms latency). Also, I do back a lot on Amazon S3 (and Glacier) to dump daily backup of all data. It costs super low and thus if you don't have mission critical application & can accept slight downtime then go for one which is cheap & have simple bash scripts doing backup, encryption & push dumps to Amazon S3 (and eventually to Glacier). So that can be a good and powerful enough setup for less mission-critical server. I hope this will help! On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Mridul Kapoor <mridulkap...@gmail.com>wrote: > Oops.. Some problem with my reply. Somehow it didn't go in its full form. > Anyways - - > > Thanks a lot Ravi and Vipul. Considering your suggestions, I guess I choose > between Hetzner and Ec2. I could go with amazon ec2, considering the free > starter service > Thanks a lot once again! > - Mridul > Sent from a phone, please excuse the brevity > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com Linkedin <http://in.linkedin.com/in/anuragbhatia21> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/anurag_bhatia>| Google+ <https://plus.google.com/118280168625121532854> Skype: anuragbhatia.com PGP Public Key here <https://anuragbhatia.com/pgp-public-key.txt> (for secure communications) _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
