[GTALUG] Linux hosting

[Mauro Souza]

If you pay one year in advance you will pay $5.36/mo. That's what I did...

Now I have my own private 250GB Dropbox (owncloud) paying a few dollars...
And my own VPN provider, seedbox, testing webserver, DNS server... it's fun!

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.

2014-10-02 11:50 GMT-03:00 Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com>:

> 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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