Ask HN: What web hosting do you use for your personal sites/blogs?

I use S3 directly (+ Route53) for my static sites, with EC2 micro instances for things that need a CPU. Previously I used Linode and was happy, but when I decided to cut administrative overhead, and go with just one vendor I went with amazon.

If you are using Wordpress or another PHP based CMS then NearlyFreeSpeech.Net can't be beat.

Rackspace Cloud Servers[1] (formerly Slicehost) with a basic Ubuntu install and nginx. I also use it for a simple static site and blog (still running Blosxom!). Has been rock solid for years.

EDIT: I second the NearlyFreeSpeech.Net recommendation if shared hosting is OK (as opposed to a VPS with static IP, etc). NFS has been very dependable in my experience.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/

If it's static HTML, you can use Github Pages.

All my static and newLisp based sites are hosted on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has enough power to handle blogs or small traffic sites. I use no-ip.org to get a static address for the Pi at home.

I use ASO, their customer support has been great in my experience

I'm using Heroku free plan.

AppFog. This is free till 2GM RAM limit. I am running my Django site www.mistrics.com on it.

I used to be with Media Temple and I never really had an issues using them, it was their Grid Server offering and pretty decent for the price. After a while I yearned for more control and power, so I moved to a 512mb Linode VPS plan which including their excellent backup plan costs me $25 per month. I host around 12 sites (mostly Wordpress sites) and it can handle everything that has been thrown at it thus far.

Keep in kind a managed VPS plan from Linode means no Cpanel or fancy control panel so everything needs to be done via the command line. Perfect if you want to better understand Linux and learn command line commands. The backup service is a separate offering that's $5 per month and I highly recommend it as you'll most likely destroy a few VM instances before you get the hang of how to configure things like server requests and email.

From my experience Linode is definitely one of the best and cheap. It's perfect bridging hosting between shared hosting and expensive cloud based dedicated VM hosting like EC2. Rackspace is also pretty good, I have friends who swear by them but can't say anything about them really as I've never used them.

Blogger. It's always up and does everything I need it to.

NearlyFreeSpeech. Costs me ~ $2 a month.

These days I'm mostly building one-page style sites (usually with AngularJS) paired with an API server (usually in node.js) so I tend to host these separately. I've got apps running on Heroku and I'm also keen to see if I can get better performance from AppFog so I might try that out soon. For static files I've been using Amazon S3 with either Cloudfront or Cloudflare.

No need to spend a whole load of cash if it's only personal.

Check out http://www.lowendbox.com/ for some dirt cheap VPS deals and guides on how to configure a limited resource server if you're new to it.

I currently use two providers I found from there, 3 containers in total. Having more that one allows me to simply switch if a host goes down.

(For a static site, it can be quite fun to see how much you can squeeze out of 64MB of ram.)

I use a dirt cheap $15/month OVH dedicated server running Nginx, Unicorn and Postgres.

Software wise I use Rails deployed with Capistrano for most projects and Octopress for my blog as there's no need for blogs to be dynamic in my case.

You can use Azure Websites. It's free and works awesome.

Mine is on Heroku, but that's because i've written my own blogging software and that's not what you are asking for.

I'd go with a VPS, then it will be a learning experience as well (if that's what you want) and you can use it for other things and play around with new stuff. Prgmr, Linode, EC2 (A reserved micro instance is dirt cheap). If you just want to host a site, I've also had a great experience with Hostgator, although YMMV.

If you are using Jekyll, Github Pages is a no-brainer. Free, fast, and Jekyll works out of the box.

Disclaimer: It's my startup.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

We track what people are saying about web hosting companies on Twitter to see who people are happiest with. It's not a perfect system but what we're trying to do is create an objective and transparent way to compare these companies which I felt this industry truly lacked. Maybe it will help you compare some of your options, we track Media Temple (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/) and GoDaddy (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/34/godaddy/) as well as many other big companies mentioned in the comments (Linode, Heroku, RackSpace, ASO, etc).

I have a Jekyll blog that I host on S3 and CloudFront, with DNS hosted on Route 53. Anything more than that is overkill (and possibly a waste of money). Heck, even the CloudFront bit is not necessary.

RamNode.