Ask HN – Who does your hosting?

9 points by OedipusRex ↗ HN
Title says it all: who does your hosting?

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DigitalOcean currently, previously A Small Orange.
BudgetVM. The price is right. I have had a couple of downs over the past two years. One was several hours. Not for mission critical 100% up time cases. But great for casual sites/ web apps. Did I mention the price is right?
I ask because of down time at CloudAtCost, some people's servers have been down 10+ days now. Mine's been down for three so far.
They haven't been bad at all. I have had maybe 5 instances with them over the past two years and have 3 now. The speed is good in Dallas, not so good on the one instance I had in LA. I have one important VM for clients (have complained a few times over the past couple of years). They appear to know which one this is and have it on a fast node. It hasn't been down except reboots in nearly a year.

I'm happy with their customer service and response times also. But probably I wouldn't use them for high level mission critical stuff.

This looks nice. I don't mind getting a cheap box to host some non critical websites. Thanks for this.
If you're looking for recommendations and opinions, I would shamelessly recommend taking a look at the data I collect. I track many of the big hosting companies and what people are saying about them.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare/

000webhost.com
I had started out with their free plan for a few of the smaller websites I maintain. But their limitations (facebook api) and downtimes discouraged me from upgrading to their paid plans. Eventually, I moved those sites back to one of my DO boxes.
The Planet, which merged with SoftLayer, which is now owned by IBM.
Bytemark for 99% of things (now all on bigv.io, their cloud platform) and single machine for backup MX/DNS etc. at DigitalOcean
Seconded - although I'm a little biased ;)