This is my go-to for hosting providers. https://lowendbox.com/ Note that this is not a service, in itself, but rather a blog with listings of many other (small) providers. Their pricing is generally a lot better than some of the mainstream providers.
My current favorite is VPS Dime, but if I need something international, I go back to the source to find other providers. On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Bucky Wolfe <pmigne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running a webserver on bare metal is pretty nutty in 2018 (unless you're > getting thousands of requests per second). There are actually a lot of > downsides to what you're doing, particularly: you have a single point of > failure (in both the lone dedicated server and the single region it's > located in), you're probably not even coming close to fully utilizing the > box, and could be paying 5-10x what you'd be paying if you had built > something on a budget cloud provider. The question should probably be more > about what your requirements are for the cloud service you choose, rather > than *if* you should be using it. > > If you're looking for suggestions: Vultr and DigitalOcean are probably the > two best budget IaaS providers out there, I'd suggest auditing them both and > making your comparison against rackspace's cloud offering. If you have a ton > of money to throw around, obviously AWS and GCP are more than adequate, but > you get a lot more bang for your buck with the little(r) guys. Also, if > you'd rather be more hands off with the maintenance of your infrastructure, > you could outsource that and look into using a PaaS like Heroku. > > Cheers, > Bucky > > Best, > Bucky Wolfe > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Michael L <helpwithmath...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have to make a decision soon on whether to continue running our website >> on a managed dedicated server (with firewall) or hosting our site in the >> cloud. >> >> Can anyone point me in the direction of a solution and/or tell me pitfalls >> to avoid? If I understood correctly, one thing Rackspace told me is that a >> cloud software firewall is something they can't offer now because of a >> software acquisition making it no longer available. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> M >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
