OT: Web Application Hosting

[Nathan England]

All of my personal domains and when I have the choice of registrar are 
registered with Dreamhost. I've been with them going on 10 years now. I 
have used their unlimited hosting and liked it, along with their email, 
until Digital Ocean came along.

Thanks for the reminder to check out their vps services.


On 2016-05-17 10:42, Stephen Partington wrote:
> 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 at 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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