[ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

[Jim Kinney]

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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 wi!
>  ll start racking up charges.
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
> ________________________________________
> 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?
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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