[TriLUG] Any recommendations for cheap "cloud" hosting?

Matt Flyer via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Jun 19 14:34:29 EDT 2017


On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 14:23 -0400, Phillip Rhodes (Fogbeam Labs) via
TriLUG wrote:
> I use Linode, although some critics argue against using them given
> how
> frequently they seem to be the target of DDOS attacks and their
> history
> w/r/t mitigating those attacks.  But honestly, it hasn't been a major
> problem for us.
I haven't had any problems with this either.

> DigitalOcean is also very popular and I would give them strong
> consideration if I ever felt the need to leave Linode.
> 
Since you mentioned it, DigitalOcean I believe is the other company
that offers large amounts of data transfer as part of their service.

Personally, I think that this could be an important feature.  I am a
fairly small data user, but on my cell phone with a few gig per month I
have had to monitor it and run close when my significant other started
doing any sort of music streaming.


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