Hosting

To sort. See Stack for software solutions.

General

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

• http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/

• https://www.scalyr.com/cloud/ [1]

• http://lowendtalk.com/

Providers

• http://news.netcraft.com/

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

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/ [2]

• 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

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/

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

• http://1.ai/ - free dev hosting

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

• http://bytemark.co.uk/

• http://bigv.io/

Amazon

• http://aws.amazon.com/

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

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

• 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://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/ [3]

Other

• http://www.ramnode.com/

• http://hostclipse.com/

• http://bitfolk.com/

• https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml [4]

• https://www.e24cloud.com/en

• https://www.vpn.sh - £1?!

• http://lowendbox.com/

• http://cloudatcost.com/

PaaS

See also Stack#PaaS, Platforms

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

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

Other

• 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

Docker

• https://orchardup.com/

• https://stackdock.com/

• http://ctl-c.io/ - appfog

Development orientated

• 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/

• https://modulus.io/

• https://koding.com/ - free vm

Unix shells

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

• http://www.egghelp.org/shell.htm

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

SaaS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_service_provider
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service

• http://assets.econsultancy.com/images/0002/6464/The-Ultimate-Complete-Social-Media-Sizing-Cheat-Sheet1.png

WordPress

• http://wpmu.org/hosted-wordpress-solutions/
• http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/wordpress/hosting/

WordPress.com

• http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/extra-storage/ - 3Gb free
• http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/custom-domains/ - £8.50
• http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/ad-free/ - £20
• http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/custom-design/ - £20

Name.com

• http://www.name.com/rapidpress - £20

Other

• https://www.zippykid.com - £17 a year!
• https://purchase.websynthesis.com - etc...
• http://wpengine.com/
• https://page.ly/

Google Apps

• Google Apps

basic plan no longer free as of December 2012 [5]

• http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/home

• https://kkinder.com/2013/05/21/leaving-googles-silo-alternatives-to-gmail-talk-calendar-and-more/

• https://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Calendar

• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107309

Drive

• https://drive.google.com

• https://neutron-drive.appspot.com/

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

Bitnami

• http://bitnami.org/cloud
  • http://bitnami.com/cloud/pricing - One free dev instance.

GitHub

• 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/micho/github_issues_review_chrome_extension

• http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/github-got-silly-rich-dot-next-step-make-more-awesome

Pages

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

• https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages

Gist

• https://gist.github.com/

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

• https://github.com/jazzychad/gistblog

Storage

See also Transfer

Dropbox

• http://dropbox.com

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox

• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75985/update-different-dropbox-instances

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

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

• Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites. Edit your HTML locally, and your website will always be up-to-date.

• https://www.backlift.com/

• http://dbinbox.com/

• http://www.yoozon.com/

Google Drive

Gmail + drive + photos = 15Gb

• https://drive.google.com

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=google+drive

• http://www.lbreda.com/grive/start
  • https://github.com/Grive/grive
  • does folders
  • doesn't download or autosync

• https://launchpad.net/gwoffice

• http://tomdignan.com/projects/gdrive-cli/
  • https://github.com/tom-dignan/gdrive-cli

• https://github.com/jcline/fuse-google-drive

• https://www.insynchq.com/
  • https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1964/insync-for-linux-beta-16-0-10-0
  • not free
  • doesn't to folders

• http://www.syncdocs.com/how-to-set-up-google-drive-encryption/

Ubuntu One

• https://one.ubuntu.com/ - 5GB free

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ubuntu_One

Wuala

• https://www.wuala.com/ - 5GB

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wuala/

Spideroak

• https://spideroak.com/ - 2GB free. does webdav

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spideroak/

Copy.com

• https://www.copy.com/price/ - 15GB free

Ge.tt

• http://ge.tt/ - 2GB

• http://ge.tt/tools
• https://github.com/baskerville/eat

Bitcasa

• https://www.bitcasa.com - 10Gb

Box.com

• https://www.box.com/ - 10Gb free, webdav

• https://github.com/drotiro/boxfs2 - A FUSE-based filesystem for box.com

4shared.com

• https://www.4shared.com/ - 15Gb free, webdav

filecloud.io

• http://filecloud.io/ - 1000Gb public, web

OpenDrive

• https://www.opendrive.com - 5Gb free, does webdav

MediaFire

• http://www.mediafire.com/ - 10Gb, no linux

Small hosting

• http://neocities.org/ [6]

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/ - $
• https://dnsimple.com/

Screenshots

• http://url2png.com/plans/

CRM

• http://www.salesforce.com/uk/

Office

• https://draftable.com/

SEO

• http://www.seomoz.org/

Feedback

• https://www.uservoice.com/

• http://webengage.com/

• https://www.surveymonkey.com/

Web

• https://www.strikingly.com/
• http://www.pikock.com/en
• http://www.wix.com/
• http://www.strapper.io/
• http://www.weebly.com/
• http://www.jimdo.com/
• http://www.squarespace.com/stories
• https://www.smore.com/

• http://www.silk.co/product

• https://neocities.org/

• https://www.bitballoon.com/pricing - static

• http://www.portfoliobox.net/

• https://www.squarespace.com/

• http://www.webs.com/

• https://www.tsohost.com/

E-commerce

• https://gumroad.com/

• http://www.32auctions.com/

• https://zinc.io/ - api

• http://www.redbubble.com/

Shopify

Saas store

• http://www.shopify.com/faq/what-is-a-third-party-processor

Image hosting

• http://flickr.com

• http://www.smugmug.com/
• http://www.photoshelter.com/

Imaging

• http://www.imgix.com/

Video

YouTube

Channel banner;

• 2120 pixels wide and 1192 pixels tall

• http://streamus.com/ - playlist streams

APIs

• https://ifttt.com