[Hidden-tech] WPress Hosting

[Tim Boudreau]

FWIW, I've been test-driving DigitalOcean for a couple of sites (this is
one - http://timboudreau.com/builds/ ) and I've had nary a hiccup - just
set up a new Debian server with them last night.  Hard to beat their
prices, and so far the results have been great.

If all you need is a generic unix box, a more pricey but rock-solid stable
option is joyent.com - the OS is a variant of Solaris (since I used to work
for Sun, this is a plus in my book - they do have linux and windows
offerings too if you must) with pretty much anything you could want
available via the pkgin tool.  In particular, the I/O throughput is much
more dependable than my experiences with Amazon EC2.  I host the rest of
http://timboudreau.com there.

HTH,

-Tim


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Town Websites <townwebsites at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Digital Ocean looks interesting as a low cost VPS with SSD.   Have to
> wonder
> if they're stable enough to trust with client's websites, though, as a new
> company with much lower pricing compared with something tried and true like
> Linode.
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> Have to say, my speed test to Linode in NY area did 100mb a lot faster than
> the Digital Ocean speed test, and pings were a lot better on the Linode and
> another vendor's VPS in the same area than to Digital Ocean.
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> How long have you been on Digital Ocean?  It looks like they have only been
> around for 8 months or so.  The CEO got a Forbes interview, so I guess he's
> got something going for him, but maybe not enough right now to look closer.
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> Thanks for any further insights.
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> Charlie
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