All of my personal domains and when I have the choice of registrar are registered with Dreamhost. I've been with them going on 10 years now. I have used their unlimited hosting and liked it, along with their email, until Digital Ocean came along. Thanks for the reminder to check out their vps services. On 2016-05-17 10:42, Stephen Partington wrote: > For general hosting, mail, and domain hosting i use a fully managed > hosting account at dreamhost. they run my mail and web services (doing > a good job) and its 120/year. I also can build you a coupon to cut the > first year in half. then they also have AWS and cloud compute services > as well as virtual host options that you can mix and match. and they > are LetsEnrypt enabled with automatic renewals for any domains you > host with them. so far it has been a very nice service. > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Keith Smith > wrote: > >> The million dollar question for me is what is everyone doing for a >> mail server. I do not want to run a mail server nor do i want to >> pay $10 per vhost for a mail server. >> >> On 2016-05-16 14:44, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 04:40 PM, Nathan England wrote: >> >> I have been using Digital Ocean for several years now and I have >> dozens >> of droplets running Centos. My typical scenario consists of >> spinning up >> a droplet, configuring it for lamp, and developing to my clients >> specs. >> All development is done locally and then moved to the droplet for >> client >> testing and everything else that comes along with consulting. >> >> Once everything is completed and the client is happy, in every >> case, I >> have then moved the application to a different web host, such as >> Rackspace or GoDaddy, depending on what the client requests or >> their >> ability to self-manage... >> >> In all the years I have worked with these hosts, along with others >> like >> Bluehost and Hostgator, I have had significantly less problems with >> my >> Digital Ocean virtual hosts than I have on any of the other >> "professional" hosting companies. >> >> I'm currently spending ~$1200 a month with Rackspace and have >> constant >> issues, almost daily outages, and my dev servers for the same >> application on DO have been up for months. (Some issues are purely >> network related which is out of my control and Rackspace does not >> want >> to acknowledge any issues, and some are purely because some people >> in >> China want to be my friend...) >> >> Is anyone else using DO for production environments? I guess my >> real >> issue is I've not used DO with a major application under sustained >> heavy >> load (cpu/memory/network). >> >> I won't use anyone else but DigitalOcean for my production >> workloads. >> >> The rest - Rackspace, Amazon, Azure, etc. - are too damned >> expensive, >> too damned flaky, and don't even come close to the level of >> customer >> service I get from DO. >> >> Thomas >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > Keith Smith > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Nathan England nathan@nmecs.com (480) 559-9681 https://www.nmecs.com PHP Developer Web Development LAMP Administration --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss