On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Joe Dallago wrote: > What does everyone use for hosting and why? I currently use bluehost, but I > just want to see what is out there.
I generally like really fast hardware, Rackspace has very generous boosting on their VPS allocations and is up there or past linode on performance per buck. However, as I enjoy not having much in the way of constraints on bandwidth/storage/CPU, and I'm fine administrating a machine. I use hetzner.de dedicated hosting. 5 terabytes/month included bandwidth, most of the machines are soft-raid1 with 1.5TB hard drives, and I've never had the hardware fail on me in use over the past 4+ years now. pylonsproject.org, pylonshq.com, the wiki, and a bunch of other things run on a single hetzner box, which is insane fast (Core i7 930 quad-core w/HT proc, 24GB of ram), it runs about $100/mth USD, but since the machine is so beefy, I split the cost with some friends which pushes it down to about $30/mth each or less. If you like fast dedicated hardware on the cheap, digitalone.com also has some good deals that usually far surpass the dedicated leased machine options here in the states. I get tempted by EC2 on occasion, but the cost to get a Large EC2 instance which has a lot more CPU power quickly ends up costing more than I'm paying for my share of the hetzner box.... and the hetzner machine is sooooo fast. Cheers, Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
