Re: OT: Web Application Hosting

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Author: Keith Smith
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Subject: Re: OT: Web Application Hosting

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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