Hosting

General

To resort. See also SaaS, Stack, Platforms

• 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 / comparison

• Web hosting forum

• /r/VPS/ - for discussions of virtual private servers and cloud servers.

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

• ServerBear - A Fresh Look at Web Hosting Comparison

• VpsBenchmarks - We collect VPS plan specifications, thoroughly test their performance and provide screening and comparison tools to make your VPS search short and painless.

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

VPS / IaaS

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

• Cloud Cost Calculator [1]

• 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 [2]

• 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/ [3]

• 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/ [4]

RamNode

• http://www.ramnode.com/

Scaleway

• Scaleway

Vultr

• https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

Other

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

• http://hostclipse.com/

• http://bitfolk.com/

• https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml [5]

• 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 [6]

• https://www.scaleway.com/ [7]

PaaS

See also Stack#PaaS, Platforms

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

• http://blog.fortrabbit.com/cloudscapes-rerevisited [8]

See also E-mail#Server

• https://github.com/convox/rack - AWS [9]

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. [10]
  • 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 [11]

Docker

• https://orchardup.com/

• https://stackdock.com/

• http://ctl-c.io/ - appfog

• http://octohost.io/ [12]

Unix shells

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

• http://www.egghelp.org/shell.htm

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