[Chicago] Thoughts on Virtual Hosting

[Val Kolovos]

I’d add in that using EC2 is a pretty good idea because, like Japhy said, it gets you experience with the Amazon ecosystem, which is worth more than just a little these days. Their free tier will work for you for a year and is certainly enough to get a home project off the ground.

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> On Dec 15, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com> wrote:
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> +1, i have used linode for years, slowly transitioning away.  Bad security record, and pretty regular forced reboots / downtime for maintenance (3 or 4x / year?).   They used to be so great, but it feels more and more like everyone else has surpassed them by now.
> 
> DO is solid, EC2 is also very good, even just to get some experience with Amazon's ecosystem.
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> 
> - Japhy
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Zah <zah.andrew at gmail.com <mailto:zah.andrew at gmail.com>> wrote:
> DigitalOcean is great. Ive used it for about 2 years now. They have a ton of quality tutorials on *nix configuration and whatnot.
> 
> Students can also get free credit on DO through Github's education pack.
> 
> I'd also recommend ChicagoVPS, I switched to them as I found better deals ($5/mo for 5 GB memory) than DO.
> 
> Andrew 
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> On Dec 15, 2016, at 15:35, Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022 at umn.edu <mailto:elmq0022 at umn.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> All good advice and thank you for the replies.  I will likely give Digital Ocean and Ubuntu a spin very soon.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com <mailto:carl at personnelware.com>> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Jordan Bettis <jordanb at hafd.org <mailto:jordanb at hafd.org>> wrote:
>> I'm a longtime linode user, slowly transitioning away. I would not
>> recommend them. They've had an absolutely horrible security track record.
>> 
>> Jordan - any thoughts on Digital Ocean?
>> 
>> Aaron - Ubutu, or really I would say Debian for a server unless you know you need something else, in which case you would not be asking ;)
>> 
>> for a little write up on why Ubuntu, look at the bottom for "Which Distro?"
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CarlKarsten <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CarlKarsten>
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>> Carl K
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