<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>The VPS providers that are highest on my radar (though I haven't tried either yet--too broke) are:<br><br><a href="http://prgmr.com/">http://prgmr.com/</a> - Locally (-ish) based (San Jose, to be exact) with a pretty solid CLA (though I can't find it now) and the company motto is "We don't assume you are stupid." The owner is the author of The Book of Xen. <<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271867">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271867</a>><br></div><br></div><a href="http://ovh.com/">http://ovh.com/</a> - Around since 1999, they offer stupid cheap VPSs. Their dedicated server offering supports a ridiculous number of Linux distributions (including Gentoo!) <<a href="https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/os.xml?range=HOST">https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/os.xml?range=HOST</a>> though I can't figure out what distributions their VPS service supports without creating an account.<br><br></div>Also possibly worth looking at:<br><br><a href="http://www.vultr.com/">http://www.vultr.com/</a> - Pretty much a me-too copy of Digital Ocean. Cheaper than DO, and offers the ability to upload an arbitrary ISO to boot your VM from (for the people that just have to have NoMad Linux or NixOS or whatever on their server). I've heard scary things about their quality of service, though.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>William Tracy<br><a href="mailto:afishionado@gmail.com" target="_blank">afishionado@gmail.com</a><br>(408) 685-4819</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Omar Eljumaily <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:omar@omnicode.com" target="_blank">omar@omnicode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">You might try AWS.  Be careful, though, because they charge for everything including bandwidth and disk storage.<br>
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A speculative idea.  If there are enough local people to support something like a local cooperative cloud, it might be interesting to try to start something like that.  Some place like Sonic might work for hosting it, but not if there are huge bandwidth requirements, because unless you're on the major hubs like Amazon and Google, you're going to be paying big $ to send your data up the pipe to get there.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 11/18/2015 12:54 PM, Robert Thille wrote:<br>
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I used <a href="http://lowendbox.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lowendbox.com/</a> to find my Crissic VPS (~$20/year, IIRC), but Crissic isn't around anymore as Crissic, and I'm not sure of the pricing of the people who bought them.  But lowendbox is definitely worth looking at.<br>
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On Nov 18, 2015, at 12:17 PM, <a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net" target="_blank">gandalf@sonic.net</a> wrote:<br>
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Thought I'd ask here. I'd imagine virtual is cheaper than physical. Last I checked there were some $20 or so options.<br>
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