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domain register : https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ 9$ host http://www.slicehost.com : 20$ Both are cheap, reliable and have great ui's.

Go to a different host. Here are my two recommendations: http://linode.com http://slicehost.com Both start at $20 a month. I am a customer of both.

Names are always difficult, but I have found unusual names spread by sneaker net/word of mouth always stick in the back of my head (news.ycombinator) or really really obvious names that are easy to guess stand out as well (news.bbc). Oh you also mentioned hosting aswell..one of the chaps at work swears by these guys : http://www.slicehost.com/ . Worth taking a look at (I think they mentioned Django on there, somewhere) I kwnow they support LAMP.

I also use Dreamhost for my secondary stuff. It's great as a staging server although you don't have full control over the server. If anybody wants $50 off the first year (that makes it reeeeeeallllyyy cheap per month), you can use the promo code LIFEHACKER. For virtual dedicated, I use Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com) to host The Photo Stream (http://www.thephotostream.com) and they have been excellent for the past two months.

I'd recommend a cheap VPS, which you can then use for any number of things, including running svn, git, whatever. You get root access, so you can do whatever you want with it. They're great for prototyping web apps. I like Slicehost (as low as $20/month) http://www.slicehost.com/

I highly recommend Slicehost. I've been amazed with their responsiveness, availability and competence. http://slicehost.com

It would be helpful to know something about your requirements: as you move away from commodity hosting, the hosting world becomes more complex in what it provides. I've been very satisfied with my Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com/) account, for excellent virtualized hardware, but depending on your scale, need for growth, geographic location, need for dedicated boxes, et cetera, someone else is likely appropriate.

http://www.slicehost.com is just about the best you can do for $20/month, except they have a waiting list now. You get your own slice of Unix to do whatever you want.

I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a production RoR environment up and running too. They're probably the best bet for bootstrapers and students.

37signals made a bad decision with this, in my opinion. They don't emphasize the expensive packages first, to make the cheaper packages seem more affordable. They make the one you want huge, and the 49 dollar price, at first glance, seems expensive. If they emphasized or drew your eye to the $149 package first, by the time you get to the package you want, at 1/3rd the cost you were looking at before, you'd be more inclined to feel it is a good deal. Look at WuFoo's design, they do an incredibly great job at the price chart, and they can back up their decisions with data. http://wufoo.com/signup/ On the other hand, if your service is not something you're trying to upsell people on based on gimmicky features, I strongly suggest following the Slicehost model: http://www.slicehost.com/ They know you know what you need, so they very plainly list all of the plans and their prices with no gimmicky sales bullshit. I love them for that.

Joyent Accelerators ( http://www.joyent.com ) are flexible, and they're the "official" Ruby on Rails host. They also happen to offer the best control panel (Virtualmin, of course). The only negative might be that Accelerators are Solaris systems--I don't have any complaints about that, but if you're accustomed to Linux, it might be a bit of a learning curve. Slicehost ( http://www.slicehost.com ) has a good reputation. Their Xen systems are not over-subscribed and they know their business. Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.com ) had a good reputation until recently...but I'm sure it was a temporary setback. They're technically savvy. They're using a kind of quirky virtualization layer (Virtuozzo) which, when over-subscribed even a little bit (and sometimes even when not), exhibits serious memory issues. Gridzones ( http://www.gridzones.com ) is another Solaris zones based host, and they have some reasonable plans. It's a smaller shop, so probably gives more personal service. Tell Phil that Joe from Virtualmin sent you (I dunno if it'll get you a discount, but he'll be happy to hear from you). They start at $15, which is hard to beat (you probably want more space than that, though...). They're also Virtualmin friendly, when appropriate (i.e. when you have enough space/memory for full service hosting). If you're wanting to spend a little more, The Planet and Server Beach both offer dedicated boxes starting at around $69, I think. I've used both for years with…

slicehost are great http://www.slicehost.com/

I agree with the sentiments expressed by many others, and send a huge thank you to the SliceHost crew for offering great service over the past few years. I've had a SliceHost account since 2008, and a RackSpace account since 2009. I've run servers on both platforms, I've taken a look at the different features and I decided to choose SliceHost. RackSpace might indeed be cheaper and offer more features, but I chose SliceHost because it is quick, easy to use and gets the job done. One of the things that sold me on using SliceHost in the first place was your non-SLA SLA, http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#sla SliceHost has a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie, the RackSpace site has a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

http://www.linode.com/ http://www.slicehost.com/ http://www.webfaction.com/

For a VPS/dedicated where you're manually operating the server and database, #3 is generally given. I run a couple of small boxes on Slicehost http://slicehost.com/ and their management interface allows you to bring up new boxes / close down boxes as you need, manage your DNS records, and etc. If you require shell support, they do have an API to their management interface http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/3/26/announcing-the-slicehost-a… — I've played with it just once, in Python, and found it to be extremely accessible. The couple times I've needed support, I got resolved within less than an hour. Generally, I find that I can resolve minor issues within their management interface (reboot an instance, get shell access via browser if you have broken SSHD, etc.).

For VPS: I'm using Slicehost currently, but have seen some good reviews of Linode. I think I'll likely give them a spin in the new year instead of Slicehost - you get a bit more for your money, and can customize more from what I understand. I believe they both have quite good support from both community and company perspectives. Lots of good articles and tutorials. Some comparison links: recent: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison older: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode The companies: Linode: http://www.linode.com/ Slicehost: http://www.slicehost.com/

slicehost: http://www.slicehost.com/ $20 / month, full root access. Install tomcat and off you go. That's cheaper than most bad habits ;)

If all you want is VPS that is cheaper than AWS then Slicehost may be the thing for you - http://www.slicehost.com EDIT: I forgot about Linode since I haven't used them myself. Here's a comparison between the two from last November: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

Are these numbers right? http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8227/picture9sh1.png That equates to like 24 gigs of RAM per server!? [Update: I thought 8GB was big (& 16GB was huge) - just from my limited experience - http://www.slicehost.com/]

Along with S3 for large static content, - Make sure your MySQL queries are optimized (use EXPLAIN SELECT to make sure indexes are being used as you intend) - If you end up needing a dedicated server, look at a service that can automatically provision servers in a matter of hours (such as http://www.theplanet.com). Or go with something like (http://www.slicehost.com), which can set you up in minutes. - If you need to change servers in a rush, you can leave your DNS with Dreamhost; just set up a subdomain like 's2.wonderwrap.com' that resolves to your new server, and redirect requests for wonderwrap.com to s2.wonderwrap.com - I think you'll be fine! Good luck

For your Linux servers you might try SliceHost: http://www.slicehost.com/ Note: I have not used them, but will probably use them in the near future for an enterprise I have in mind. You can probably call them and ask for references, or cull references from their blog: http://www.slicehost.com/blog/

odds are, if you don't have the flexibility to use/install postgres, you won't be able to deploy the reddit code anyway. you've got to install and make use of a lot of different things you don't get to touch on standard shared hosting admittedly, i've not looked enough into the db structure, but based on the playing i've done with the code, no. you're stuck on postgres. http://slicehost.com

Or use "WPDH2" as a promo code and get some additional storage and bandwidth (http://www.dreamhost.com/wordpress.html) I've been using Dreamhost for a while now (to host my blog) and it has been pretty much okay but I wouldn't host any critical stuff on it. WebFaction (http://www.webfaction.com) and Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com) are pretty popular lately (although not _that_ cheap). I would probably go with webfaction for a django app.

SwellJoe, I checked your website and I like your web server administration tool. I think you need to partner with web hosting companies. I like to see http://slicehost.com offering this tool for their cutomers.

I'm using slicehost and I'm loving it! :) http://slicehost.com

Summary: They need more smart and less machine. You can try an instance out for a day or two and just cancel your account. I ended up canceling my test instance but am thinking of trying it again to see how they did with the node stuff. Frankly they are just as much of a pain in the butt to get everything working as before they were rebranded as SmartMachines from Accelerators or whatever they where called before Joyent bought textdrive. I also find the documentation lacking compared to the excellent tutorials that slicehost provides and this is kind of a big deal if you are not familiar with Solaris. see: http://wiki.joyent.com/all-accelerators:kb:start vs: http://www.slicehost.com/community I don't know what they have been doing for the last 5 years but it sure has not been working on their docs or writing their own nifty control panel software because they just install a skinned version of webmin for you. Yay, webmin... They do claim to be faster than the other virtualization platforms like xen and it might be true because Solaris Zones are pretty sexy but again there is a learning curve and you have to use Solaris. EC2 and the other VM based hosting guys give you much more flexibility and if you just want to host rails then it's going to be about 100 times more of a pain[1] than just using Heroku. If I'm going to overpay I will take time saving vs a little performance any day. [1] http://wiki.joyent.com/shared:installing-rails

Slice = virtual server at http://www.slicehost.com/

You don't have to rent a VPS, you can [use linode and slicehost docs and] just run on your laptop, or even better on a virtual machine. Throw away your mistakes, for free. http://articles.slicehost.com/sitemap http://slicehost.com/community/ edit: [clarified]

Slicehost? This list is curated? [1] 1: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2011/9/23/basics-of-the-slicehost-to…

> whereas Slicehost only has memory-hungry 64 bit systems http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2010/3/1/32-bit-images-now-available