[TriLUG] Looking for linux friendly web hosting

[Jos Purvis via TriLUG]

I recently moved a bunch of personal projects to Hetzner, a German provider that does a mix of virtual private server and dedicated server hosting. The VPS I’m on is €3 a month (at most) and I get my choice of distributions (or I can supply an ISO and do it myself). They also offer a neat “green hosting” service: as they rotate out their servers from cloud-hosting duty, you can rent them as dedicated hardware colo for a fraction of the usual price, so you can get a lot more hardware and they avoid having to junk old stuff.

They’re all hosted in Germany or Finland, but I have to say I’ve not noticed the latency. A quick Zerotier install and it’s like the server is sitting on my home network.

For more traditional website-package hosting, I’ve been pretty happy with a2hosting.com—I’ve had one of their website packages for a long time. Their support has been responsive, they have cPanel as a standard with all the tooling for databases and frameworks, and they’ve done a good job of keeping things up to date so I’m not worried about a site getting popped because of an outdated library.

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, at 11:10, Greg Brown via TriLUG wrote:
> It's been forever and a day since I looked into web hosting.  Is there an
> above-and-beyond preferred hosting company these days?  The website in
> question will start off fairly basic but I can see a need for Flask or
> Cherrypy or Django in the near future.  I am all Linux all the time as far
> as any development goes so I would like to have a hosting company that is
> friendly to such things.
> 
> Are there any small to medium companies local to Durham or Raleigh?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Greg
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