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 <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> 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
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