Hosting

General

To resort. See also SaaS, Stack, Platforms

• 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://news.netcraft.com/

• The Five Stages of Hosting (Pinboard Blog) [1]

• Going Colo (Pinboard Blog)

• From bare metal to Serverless

• Virtual Private Servers - the Wild West of Hosting

Cloud

See also Stack, Virtualisation

• 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) - defined as "the degree to which a system is able to adapt to workload changes by provisioning and de-provisioning resources in an autonomic manner, such that at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible". Elasticity is a defining characteristic that differentiates cloud computing from previously proposed computing paradigms, such as grid computing. The dynamic adaptation of capacity, e.g., by altering the use of computing resources, to meet a varying workload is called "elastic computing".

• 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 - Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt'

VPS / 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

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 [3]

• 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/ [4]

• 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/ [5]

RamNode

• http://www.ramnode.com/

Scaleway

• Scaleway [6]

Vultr

• https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

BitFolk

• BitFolk

e24cloud.com

• e24cloud.com - Powered by Beyond.pl

• https://www.vpn.sh - £1?!

Other

• http://www.cloudatcost.com - dodgy, social media links are dead

PaaS

See also Stack#PaaS, Platforms

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

• http://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited [7]

See also E-mail#Server

• https://github.com/convox/rack - AWS [8]

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. [9]
  • https://console.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/editor

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 [10]

Docker

• https://orchardup.com/

• https://stackdock.com/

• http://ctl-c.io/ - appfog

• http://octohost.io/ [11]

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

Unix shells

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

• http://www.egghelp.org/shell.htm

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

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/ [12]

• https://www.kimsufi.com/en/