[ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Some great suggestions, so far.  I will also point out that I'm not THAT concerned about production level stability.  I mainly use this for a place to thrown up a machine or two to test some things and shut them back down.  The only thing I have that is "production" would be a personal website/blog that I have been playing around with.  That brings me to my second concern - most of these VPS providers have metered bandwidth.  I'm concerned about the situation where my website gets linked on Slashdot and runs up a massive bandwidth charge before the VM melts down.  I don't have to worry about that with my current Digital Ocean account, because they have me grandfathered in with unlimited bandwidth. I'm not so concerned about the site staying up in a high load situation as I am having it stay up and rack up a massive bill for the bandwidth consumed.  Many of these companies don't make it entirely clear whether or not they will just cut you off if you hit your cap or if they will start racking up charges.
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Beddingfield, Allen [allen at ua.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:03 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

Does anyone have any recommendations for VPS hosting providers that:
1.  Support OpenSUSE install images
2.  Have reasonable prices
3.  Do not charge huge fees for data transfer?

I have been using digitalocean.com for a long time.  It costs me roughly $5 per month for their base VM.  I've been a customer long enough to be grandfathered in with unlimited data transfer.  However, they recently dropped OpenSUSE support/removed the OpenSUSE install images.  I contacted them about adding them back, and they are not willing to.  I will hold onto my account, since the price is so low and they still support Arch.
However, I want to find a place where I can run OpenSUSE in a VPS/cloud setup for a low price.

Anyone have any recommendations?

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

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