Hosting

Hosting

• http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
• http://blog.maclawran.ca/96882258
• http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/

Providers

• http://www.ruchirablog.com/15dollar-dedicated-servers/
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838729

• http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-servers/
  • http://articles.slicehost.com/

• http://prgmr.com/xen/

Bytemark / BigV

• http://bytemark.co.uk/

• http://bigv.io/

Amazon

• http://www.ec2instances.info/
  • An always-on reserved EC2 micro instance works out to £5.54 a month (3 year), or £7.08 a month (1 year)
  • http://blog.scalyr.com/2012/10/16/a-systematic-look-at-ec2-io/
• http://s3pricing.herokuapp.com/
• https://blog.cloudvertical.com/2012/10/aws-cost-cheat-sheet-2/

• http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html

Linode

• http://linode.com
  • http://blog.linode.com/2009/07/14/linode-safe-harbor-certification/
  • http://library.linode.com/

• http://library.linode.com/getting-started
• http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/

DreamHost

• http://dreamhost.com/

• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Main_Page
  • http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Payments
  • http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Update_Credit_Card_information

other

• http://www.servwise.com/en/
• http://www.5quidhost.co.uk/
• https://www.vidahost.com/
• http://www.equiphase.net/
• http://www.nativespace.co.uk/

• http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

• http://www.internap.com/
• https://www.bhost.net/

• http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/

• http://www.openstack.org/

• http://www.joyent.com/
  • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4802957

• http://www.freevirtualservers.com/hosting.htm

PaaS

• http://www.heroku.com/ - Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala
  • https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart

gem install heroku foreman

• http://www.engineyard.com/ - PHP, Ruby
• http://www.appfog.com/ - Java, Python, Node, .Net, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Mongo, PostgreSQL, and more

• http://www.planforcloud.com/

GitHub Pages & Jekyll

• https://github.com/features/hosting
  • http://pages.github.com/
  • https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages
• Stackoverflow: What are the limits of Github hosting?

• https://github.com/maxogden/gh-pages-template

• https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages
• https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/README.textile
  • https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.com
  • https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/sites
• https://github.com/rfelix/jekyll_ext/wiki/extensions
  • https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Liquid-Extensions
  • https://github.com/bhardin/jekyll-seo-script

• http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/development/jekyll-blog-on-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

GitHub Gist

• https://gist.github.com/

• http://bl.ocks.org/ - run code (html+css+js)
• http://gist.io/ - display posts (markdown)

Google

Google Apps, basic plan no longer free as of December 2012 [1]

• http://cloud.google.com/

• https://github.com/kig/app-engine-demo-static

• https://neutron-drive.appspot.com/

• https://github.com/benhartley/googcms - node.js cms

GoDaddy

• Enabling SSH

Dropbox

• scriptogr.am - A simple online tool that converts static Markdown text files located in your Dropbox, into a beautiful web log.

• http://www.site44.com/

Storage

Dropbox

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15808/how-to-backup-database-to-comply-with-uk-data-protection-act

Backup

• http://www.linode.com/backups/

• http://www.tarsnap.com/
  • Storage: 300 picodollars / byte-month ($0.30 / GB-month)
  • Bandwidth: 300 picodollars / byte ($0.30 / GB)

• http://www.crashplan.com/

• http://www.rsync.net/

DNS

• https://dns.he.net/ - hurricane electrics free service

• http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ - $