Hosting
To resort. See also Stack, Platforms
General
- IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service - provides base virtual machines - amazon, linode, etc.
- PaaS - Platform as a Service - provides servers with apps enabled, limited shell - heroku,
- SaaS - Software as a Service - provides "desktop apps" as webpage - calendar, e-mail, social network, etc.
Articles
- http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
- http://blog.maclawran.ca/96882258
- http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/
Forums
- lowendbox - Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers
- LowEndTalk - discussion forum
- ServerBear - A Fresh Look at Web Hosting Comparison
Dedicated
OHV
Cloud
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing_comparison
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(cloud_computing)
See Stack
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_data_center
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_defined_storage
DreamHost
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Backup
- http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Domain_Restore
- https://github.com/helderco/dh-auto-backup
GoDaddy
IaaS
- http://www.lowendbox.com/ - comparison, forums
Software
Prgmr
OVH
Bytemark / BigV
Amazon
- http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
- 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://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html
- http://wpforce.com/ec2-or-no-ec2-the-great-wordpress-server-debate/
Linode
DigitalOcean
Other
- https://www.vpn.sh - £1?!
- http://www.infoworld.com/article/2865815/cloud-computing/verizon-has-no-excuse-for-planned-cloud-outage.html [8]
PaaS
See also Stack#PaaS, Platforms
Software
See also E-mail#Server
Services
- http://www.heroku.com/ - Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala
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
- https://koding.com/ - free vm
Drupal
- https://omega8.cc/ - £34.18 monthly (£20.75/month for a year)
- http://www.buzzr.com/ - lullabot
Google Cloud Platform
to sort
- http://www.servwise.com/en/
- http://www.5quidhost.co.uk/
- https://www.vidahost.com/
- http://www.equiphase.net/
- http://www.nativespace.co.uk/
- https://www.nitrous.io/ - free node.js basic plan
- https://zeit.co/now - node
Docker
- http://ctl-c.io/ - appfog