> > Oh you work for WebFaction? That explains why you like them ;) lol
I am not working for webfaction, I just cited from the link I gave you Yeah I second Linode, I have tried webfaction for ethicaldeal.com however I > wasn't very happy considering they hike their prices fast always saying you > are consuming more memory and need to upgrade. You don't have that problem > with Linode which we are using for youadworld.com. 1) High memory usage High memory usage was a problem with apache, and 2 solutions that makes it a no problem - uwsgi: I successfully run a bunch of sites even on 80Mb RAM, and Roberto optimized it even more for low resource systems - they recently increased memory to 256Mb, and this is memory consumed by your processes, not by server or mysql database 2) Why I like them In 2 years my websites were never down. I tried linode too. What made me chose webfaction is the fact that they offer more per buck. so a comparison to linode (RAM, storage, bandwidth, price) Note: I consider webfaction default memory to be equal to 512MB of linode, because 256MB are used by system: e.g ubuntu, mysql database, etc Linode512: 512MB, 20GB, 200GB, $19.95 Webfaction: 256MB, 100GB, 600GB, $9.50 , Linode768: 768MB, 30GB, 300GB, $29.95 Webfaction: 256MB + 256MB, 100GB, 600GB, $ $9.50+$7=$17 (256MB additional memory) Linode: pay month-to-month, even if you contact Webfaction: 1 year payment - price is $8.50/month, ...., 5 years payment - $5.50/month If you need additional resources Linode: transfer $0.10/GB, if you need additional space only method that I found was to upgrade to next plan, that means + $10 for 256MB/10GB/100GB Webfaction: disk +$5/month per 50GB , bandwidth +$5/month per 300GB memory +$7/month per 256MB (up to 768MB) interesting: webfaction traffic is equivalent to $0.017/GB vs Linode $0.10/GB Note: when I reviewed tens of hosting solutions and tried a few ones and lost some money on them, I wanted to chose a trusted/recommended one. And both of them are great and deserve their reputation. My opinion is just that webfaction is cheaper and have all of features that I need for my hosting needs Interesting: You can scale as much as you need by load balancing your plans(webfaction)/Linodes. 3) backup > Unfortunately this is not good enough for me. I want the daily, weakly > and monthly backups and I want to be able to restore them through the > web interface. What happens if I am traveling and I discover an > intrusion 2 weeks after the facts? Linode offers this service at additional price. Why not asking webfaction support team about that?
