[Discuss] Good hosting service for web application

[Ted Roche]

A second vote for Linode. The accounts have generous bandwidth, as
well. There's several options for backup, recovery (think of booting a
LiveCD on your machine), and out-of-band shell accounts ("LISH" the
Linode shell).

I run a stock CentOS install with my own custom software on top. You
have complete control within the VM, so you can build your own custom
stuff, do non-standard things, ssh, rsync, do things as root, etc.

I host a half-dozen low-traffic domains and barely lift the needle off
the bottom peg. Been up for over a year with only a couple brief
downtimes, documented by the staff mostly as network glitches.

Recommended!

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> Glenn Hoffman wrote:
>> I have a client for whom I have created a LAMP application running on a Linux box in their office. The machine has intermittent hardware problems and we'd like to replace it with a hosting service. Besides Apache, PHP and MySQL, I need Subversion and some facility for controlling access. Does anyone have a recommendation for an outfit that would provide this?
>
> Take a look at linode.com, too. For $20 a month you get a "whole" (Xen
> virtualized) Linux box. Pick from a list of cities for what server
> warehouse you want to live in. Pick from a list of distributions, set up
> everything exactly the way you want. Apply your own OS updates, etc. You
> might a server with more value add, but you if already built the server
> out of software parts...
>
> I've had http://www.borg.org there for a few months and it works.
>
>
> -kb
>
>
> P.S. Rant: Just because you control your server with something like
> Linode, you should still not recycle passwords between that box and
> others. You will never lay eyes on the hardware that is running your
> server...you don't *really* control it. Don't ssh out of it to any
> account/box that is supposed to be as secure or more secure. Write down
> your passwords. End of rant.
>
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