Hosting

To resort. See also Stack, Platforms

General

• From bare metal to Serverless

• 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.

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Articles

• http://news.netcraft.com/

• 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

• http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/

• lowendbox - Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers
  • Low End Wiki
• LowEndTalk - discussion forum

• ServerBear - A Fresh Look at Web Hosting Comparison

Dedicated

• http://www.server4you.com/root-server/

• https://www.datashack.net/

OHV

• http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/
  • http://www.ruchirablog.com/15dollar-dedicated-servers/ [1]

• https://www.kimsufi.com/en/

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

• http://fredlybrand.com/2013/06/23/an-apology-to-my-european-it-team/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_data_center
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_defined_storage

• https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8596900

DreamHost

• http://dreamhost.com/

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

• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Backup
• http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Domain_Restore
• https://github.com/helderco/dh-auto-backup

GoDaddy

• Enabling SSH

IaaS

• http://www.lowendbox.com/ - comparison, forums

• Cloud Cost Calculator [2]

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

• https://robot.your-server.de/order/market

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023

Software

• http://opennebula.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

• https://cloudstack.apache.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_CloudStack

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNebula

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenQRM

• http://www.nimbusproject.org/

• http://www.appscale.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppScale

• http://www.ganeti.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganeti

• http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/helion-eucalyptus-overview.html
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)

• http://cloudover.org/corecluster/

• http://zstack.org/ [3]

Prgmr

• http://prgmr.com/
  • http://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

OVH

• http://www.ovh.co.uk/vps/

• http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated-cloud/

Bytemark / BigV

• https://bytemark.co.uk/

• https://bytemark.co.uk/cloud-hosting/

Amazon

• http://aws.amazon.com/

• https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english [4]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172060

• http://qzaidi.github.io/2013/06/21/autoscaling-with-aws/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10794951

• 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://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-scale-aws/ [5]

• 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
• http://wpforce.com/ec2-or-no-ec2-the-great-wordpress-server-debate/

• https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2013/03/27/1951-open-s3-buckets

• http://bitnami.com/cloud-cost-calculator

• http://nerds.airbnb.com/easy-aws-inventorying-with-dns/
• https://github.com/mheffner/awsam

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018486

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/

DigitalOcean

• https://www.digitalocean.com

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-docker-application

• http://blog.schneidmaster.com/digital-ocean-vs-linode/ [6]

Other

• https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

• http://www.cloudatcost.com/pricing.php

• http://www.ramnode.com/

• http://hostclipse.com/

• http://bitfolk.com/

• https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml [7]

• https://www.e24cloud.com/en

• https://www.vpn.sh - £1?!

• http://lowendbox.com/

• http://cloudatcost.com/

• http://www.infoworld.com/article/2865815/cloud-computing/verizon-has-no-excuse-for-planned-cloud-outage.html [8]

• https://www.scaleway.com/ [9]

PaaS

See also Stack#PaaS, Platforms

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service

• http://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited [10]

Software

• https://www.openshift.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenShift

• https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Foundry

See also E-mail#Server

• https://github.com/convox/rack - AWS [11]

Services

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

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/

• http://www.fortrabbit.com/

• https://modulus.io/

• https://koding.com/ - free vm

Drupal

• https://omega8.cc/ - £34.18 monthly (£20.75/month for a year)

• https://www.getpantheon.com/

• http://www.acquia.com/cloud-pricing

• http://vps.net/cloud-sites

• http://www.standingcloud.com/drupal

• http://www.buzzr.com/ - lullabot

Google Cloud Platform

• http://cloud.google.com/
  • https://cloud.google.com/products/index

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

• Cloud Shell - Browser Based Command Line  |  Google Cloud Platform - Google Cloud Shell provides you with command-line access to your cloud resources directly from your browser. You can easily manage your projects and resources without having to install the Google Cloud SDK or other tools on your system. With Cloud Shell, the Cloud SDK gcloud command-line tool and other utilities you need are always available, up to date and fully authenticated when you need them. [12]

to sort

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenda

• http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-cloud

• https://pagodabox.com/
• https://www.openshift.com/
• https://www.appfog.com/

• 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

• https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

• https://www.nitrous.io/ - free node.js basic plan

• https://zeit.co/now - node

• https://zeit.co/blog/serve-it-now [13]

Docker

• https://orchardup.com/

• https://stackdock.com/

• http://ctl-c.io/ - appfog

• http://octohost.io/ [14]

Unix shells

• http://www.sh3lls.net/
• http://shells.red-pill.eu/

• http://www.egghelp.org/shell.htm

• http://devnull-as-a-service.com/ - lol