[ale] Replacing shared host?

[Simba]

Vultr is fine for hobby stuff but they don't seem professional and if yer project is for business I would recommend Digital Ocean instead.


On December 17, 2018 9:18:03 AM EST, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>I highly recommend Vultr.  Never had an issue, and they are one of the 
>few that will allow you to upload your own ISO and interactively
>install 
>the OS. If you don't want to do that, you can use one of their images.
>
>I use Vultr for VM hosting, Enom for DNS, and I have a paid account
>with 
>ProtonMail for e-mail (got tired of trying to run my own mail server).
>
>All have been good experiences.
>Allen B.
>
>On 12/17/18 6:53 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>> Hey all, I need to move into this century. After almost 20 years with
>
>> the same shared host, the tech support that has been farmed out to
>keeps 
>> making the service useless.
>> 
>> My needs are pretty simple, a few web pages. In theory I'll grow to
>PHP 
>> 7 and MySQL in the back end, but right now I need to write web pages
>and 
>> scp them up to the host. I have some time to move things over, thus
>time 
>> to learn something if necessary. I do not want to run a the server in
>my 
>> house.
>> 
>> Is it time to move to something like Digital Ocean droplets, or AWS? 
>> Long term it looks like DO costs more and you get less, but I just
>don't 
>> know yet.
>> 
>> Thoughts and recommendations?
>> 
>> Leam
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