[Chicago] Thoughts on Virtual Hosting

[Lane Campbell]

I've been using DO for years and had nothing but positive experiences with
their platform.

It's also easy to learn their dashboard compared to nearly every other
cloud provider out there.


Regards,
Lane Campbell
(312) 775-2632

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Jordan Bettis <jordanb at hafd.org> wrote:

> The only bad thing I ever heard about DO is apparently at the beginning
> they weren't zeroing the disk between customers and, when caught, were
> evasive and defensive. I don't have personal experience with them though
> and if that was their only "hiccup" it's pretty mild compared to all the
> things that have gone down at linode.
>
>
> On 12/15/2016 03:14 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Jordan Bettis <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
>
> --
> Carl K
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