I second Tilghman - lowendbox.com is a useful referral site. I found WootHosting there and have two inexpensive VPS hosts from them. Their tech support is quick, but I would be hesitant to wholeheartedly recommend WootHosting because of performance issues, likely resulting from overselling a physical host. That being said, for around $25 a year, you can get a server to test and play with. It might make a nice failover or test-bed site.
Gibson Prichard Nashville, TN gib...@prichard.tv On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Tilghman Lesher <tilgh...@meg.abyt.es> wrote: > 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+unsubscribe@ > 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. 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