[GTALUG] Linux hosting

Tim Tisdall tisdall at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 14:50:30 UTC 2014


Wow, that's some pretty good deals!  I have a couple projects that need
lots of storage space but memory and cpu are secondary.  It seems their
250GB unit is $7/mo now, but that's still amazing.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using frantech.ca for more than a year, and only got a couple hours
> of downtime. One day a RAID disk died, my server went offline for 4 hours,
> but I haven't lost any data.
>
> And they are cheap. I managed to get a 256MB KVM VPS 250GB Dedicated Space
> 2500GB Transfer for under USD 6/mo.
>
> If anyone is interested, signing in using
> https://my.frantech.ca/aff.php?aff=626 will give me one free month of
> hosting.
>
> Mauro
> http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
> Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.
>
> 2014-10-02 11:10 GMT-03:00 Myles Braithwaite <me at mylesbraithwaite.com>:
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long
>> term
>> > hosting?  I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have
>> had no
>> > issues.
>>
>> I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad
>> about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches
>> the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management
>> console got leaked on the internet).
>>
>> I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker
>> News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol
>> for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from
>> scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money).
>> I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.
>>
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