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What Is The Best Hosting Service?

9 points by Aeiper ↗ HN
I do not know which hosting service I should join, and which one has the best benefits (Less than $130 per year). Please upvote the choices below (I do not have enough karma to make a vote), or add your own option as a comment.

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Aeiper
iPage
zachlatta
I've had nothing but horrible experiences with iPage. Please DO NOT use them.
Aeiper
I'm probably not going to choose this one, but what was bad about it?
Aeiper
GoDaddy
aimatt
GoDaddy is awful. Digital ocean is great, but you have to manage the server yourself. Dreamhost is a little easier to manage, but you don't get a vps for that price point.
aroch
I'm particularly fond of Leaseweb's VPS series and SoftLayer's dedis for many of my hosting needs. Additionally, I've started using both DigitalOcean (medium sized projects) and RamNode (small projects) to test things out and I have a few production services running on DigitalOcean.

Leaseweb and SoftLayer have been great, one of my SoftLayer servers has been around (and 'upgraded' to each new version of the given series) for almost a decade and I have 8 servers provisioned with Leaseweb that have a combined uptime of ~99.99% (It would be higher but I borked a config and took a server down accidentally).

DigitalOcean has really impressed me, I love their 'droplets' system. Ramnode has been alright, sometimes it has exceptionally poor network throughput but that may just been the particular server I'm on

glitch273
Digital Ocean, hard to beat $5 VPS with SSD drives and backups
afaqurk
This seems very cheap. I can't believe I haven't used them before. Has your experience been positive for the $5 and $10 packages?
orangethirty
I've only had a bad experience with them. The OS images needed were broken, and they just told me to use another one. Huh.
thenomad
I'm hosting a bunch of things with DigitalOcean right now, and they seem pretty good. Don't have years of experience with them, but I'm battering my VPS pretty hard, and it's staying up.
ibudiallo
It actually is not bad, i have been using it for a couple month now. I did run into problems but support resolved the problem really fast. You should definitely try them.
orangethirty
I love webfaction and recommended it to everyone. Most of my businesses rely on them.
flavmartins
Webfaction. $5 shared hosting on Nginx servers, very nice, clean system. SSH access to mess around and have fun.

I run a rock solid suite of Wordpress sites and have nothing but GREAT things to say about the experience.

japhyr
nearlyfreespeech.net
mp99e99
dont forget www.atlantic.net/cloud, it has a free trial!
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larsonf
EC2 specifically, AWS generally. The learning curve is a bit steep but ultimately you will have a huge amount of power to do exactly what you want.