<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">it’s currently showing $51/yr — "for 3-years billing cycles” — so $153 for 36 months, or $4.25/mo<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They charge for SSL certs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And they don’t mention OS options anywhere.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve got a totally off-beat suggestion for you: check out <a href="http://Latenode.com" class="">Latenode.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know what the service they offer is called exactly, but they’re like Zapier and Make.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They're all starting to position themselves as “no-code hosting”, but in reality, they provide the ability to set up back-end services and host them for a very reasonable price. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re building web apps, you want to hide your service interfaces behind a firewall that’s not accessible to your users. The way that’s done in most services is via “webhooks”, which are simply HTTP REQUESTS that you send to a URL with some ID and you get back a response, usually in a JSON packet. That’s what you’re building on a VPS, right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, that’s what these guys offer — but you don’t have to worry about the hosting because it’s just part of the deal. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With just a couple of exceptions, everything I’ve needed to put into my back-end service is stuff that can be easily provided on Latenode. And if you can implement the other things you need in javascript, then you can probably even provide your custom functions as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I personally don’t want to waste my time administering my own hosting service for what amounts to routine stuff. These guys add a LOT of value, and it saves me a lot of time and headaches. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
-David Schwartz<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2025, at 6:09 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Am I reading this right? 2vcpu/8G Ram/160GB SSD for $64/year?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://www.ssdnodes.com/pricing/</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 2025-02-26 17:13, Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss<br class=""><<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" class="">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">You should contact one of their reps. Amazon (AWS), Microsoft<br class=""></blockquote>(Azure), and others mainly cater to large-volume clients.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Farmers sell by the bushel or ton or something like that; you<br class=""></blockquote>probably won’t find their prices listed anywhere other than at their<br class="">public U-Pick-It gates where they’re about the same price as the<br class="">grocery store.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">-David Schwartz<br class="">On Feb 22, 2025, at 9:23 AM, <a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" class="">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a> wrote:<br class="">Thanks David!!<br class="">It appears Amazon does not have wholesale pricing. Given that I<br class=""></blockquote>think there is room for hosting companies to own their own<br class="">infrastructure.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote>I have been using a VPS hosted by ssdnodes [1] for about 5+ years and<br class="">am very happy with their uptime and support service.<br class="">I believe they also do volume hosting; connect with their sales<br class="">department.<br class="">PS - no commercial affiliation with ssd nodes.<br class="">--<br class="">Arun Khan<br class="">Links:<br class="">------<br class="">[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ssdnodes.com/" class="">https://www.ssdnodes.com/</a><br class=""></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>