I use digital ocean as well and I'm happy with them, but if you go that route make sure you're aware of some of the security controversies: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean-finds-itself-back-in-security-trouble/I'm pretty careful of what I actually store on my VPS there. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I actually use digital ocean, it's a vps, and they're definitely good for > the price. I was running a starbound and minecraft server on it, and using > it as a remote shell for things, never gave me any issue cept I needed more > memory to do both. I ended up have to install some scripts to mitigate > asses cracking against my instance, but afd and bfd worked great on it. > > That was ubuntu server, but they had a lot of options. > > -mb > > > > On 02/18/2014 10:19 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2014-02-18 09:55, keith smith wrote: >> >>> Digitalocean.com looks promising. Once you configure your VM is >>> there a control panel for configuring your Vhost & email accounts? Or >>> do you have to do it manually? >>> >> >> digitalocean looks like a VPS from their FAQ and articles on their site. >> As such, you'll have to set up your SMTP server, IMAP server, and apache >> yourself. There are articles on their site about setting all those things >> up using CentOS 6 and Ubuntu. If you want a "control panel" like cpanel, >> then digitalocean might not be the right hosting provider for you. >> >> digitalocean looks like it'd be slightly cheaper than rackspace for me >> running this little crow202.org site. They don't offer Gentoo as an >> install option though, which means I probably won't switch. >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Paul Mooring Operations Engineer Chef