Just curious about the cost of the talked about vhosts.  For me...i want to think about having my own server.  
Most of us are "techies" so i am sure we have above average speeds on our personal services. 

Meaning that we are having an expense of internet every month anyways.

Why not see if a isp will drop a business line into your home.
That would probably have the same if not more speed. With the business service you get at least one ip.

Then the cost of hardware (one time ) expense.

To me that would probaby increase what i am paying now only about 10-20 a month. And i would have more control over my system.

The question would be would an isp drop a biz line into a residential home?

On Feb 19, 2014 10:39 AM, "Paul Mooring" <paul@getchef.com> wrote:

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 <michael@butash.net> 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.

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