Web Hosting

[Paul Mooring]

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 at 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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Paul Mooring
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