Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?

6 points by mangatmodi 6 years ago | 13 comments

I need to practice infra related concepts that I am not able to do in my current job and also host my personal webapps apps.

Requirements

1. Need only 1-2 machines max. 2. Easy to cancel the subscription and cost management. 3. Easy and faster to attach DNS. 4. Enough storage and reliability

I can see a pro of using AWS as I will have access to wide range of services already present, but is there anything cheaper for personal use?

LinuxBender 6 years ago |

Many people will have opinions on this, including me. :-) From my own experience, reliable VPS providers that are less expensive than AWS would be Linode and Vultr. Vultr natively supports iPXE if that is something you want to learn as well. Both have pay-as-you-go plans, meaning if you want to destroy the VM's after 5 days, then you only pay for 5 days. Both have very fast VM's.

jolmg 6 years ago | |

> meaning if you want to destroy the VM's after 5 days, then you only pay for 5 days

At least with Linode, you pay per hour. I haven't had a need for it, but I imagine some do appreciate being able to rent a super-powerful server for a few hours/minutes at affordable prices. They have different types of servers, too, depending on what you need.

https://www.linode.com/pricing/

mangatmodi 6 years ago | |

I agree, so I am collecting as many names I could from experienced folks for my research :)

LinuxBender 6 years ago | | |

For learning infrastructure related tasks and methods, I would also suggest reading all the questions and answers on serverfault. [1] Use care when posting questions on that site, as they expect everything to be related to your profession in a professional setting (vs Hobby / Lab settings)

[1] - https://serverfault.com/

mtmail 6 years ago | | |

3 USD/month is possible, adding https://www.hetzner.com/cloud and https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/ to the list.

Below that price you might have to pay per year (it's not worth for them to have customer spending less, a single support email wipes their profit). Or you end up with an unreliable discount hoster. And my discount I mean a company that might not be profitable enough to continue https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-...

sethammons 6 years ago |

I spend $10/mo for digital ocean. Easy. I could do more or save more with more effort or though AWS stuff, but DO works well for me. I run a couple of side projects there.

mangatmodi 6 years ago | |

I think I need to downgrade it, I took 15$ machine and 5$ space but yeah things are good. There is already a Terraform provider.

mangatmodi 6 years ago |

Found some benchmarks here - https://rickyhewitt.dev/blog/2019/10/scaleaway-vs-digitaloce...

Overall DigitalOcean looks very promising, both performance and product wise.

ldenoue 6 years ago |

Google App Engine has been great for me and it’s free. I’ve hosted several personal sites on it since its early release for python, but you can now use many languages. I host now https://www.appblit.com

mangatmodi 6 years ago | |

App engine is great. But I am looking for a Server. My use cases will vary.

chewz 6 years ago |

OVH Public Cloud? They have 40% DEAL40 discount now and cheap test servers. Cancel anytime.

codegeek 6 years ago |

You can get a $3.5/Month Amazon lightsail VPS or a $3.5/Month VPS with vultr.com. I personally prefer DigitalOcean VPS which starts at $5/Month even though vultr.com has been good as well when I used them.

runjake 6 years ago |

I use Linode and I've had great experiences with Digital Ocean and Prgmr.