[mdlug] Questions about Hosting services

[Ron Blanchett]

If you have an amazon account you can have several small instances for the
first year for free.
after that year is up you pay for the resources you use on a monthly basis.

-Ron

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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com> wrote:

> I haven't used Dreamhost or DigitalOcean, so I can't
> comment on them.  However I do use Rackspace and I
> recommended it to my students.
>
> The main advantage is that you can set up and run
> a server for as long or short of a time as you desire,
> and you're only charged for when it's running.  You
> could also create several servers for testing, then
> delete them when done.
>
> They are very good for either transient or permanent
> servers, and their price isn't bad.
>
> c
>
>
> Mathew May wrote:
> > Hey gang,
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with Dreamhost (dreamhost.com) and
> > DigitalOcean for hosting?
> >
> > I am looking to try a new project to further my education a bit and have
> > been recommended both sites from a few people that I know.  I am looking
> > to
> > build / maintain a server from the ground up in an environment that is a
> > little forgiving so I don't get hacked to hell and back until I can get
> > some more knowledge under my belt.
> >
> >>From what I have read so far on each service, it sounds like Dreamhost is
> > basically only hosting my web site/application whereas DigitalOcean gives
> > me a VM and I take care of the entire thing.
> >
> > I don't have a ton of experience with firewalls or security, but I do
> like
> > the idea of having total control over the server, and not just my
> > application.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts or lessons learned that they would like to
> share?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mat
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