Hosting providers
Hosting providers
Recommendations for that age-old question of how to host a website once you have an idea. Please provide a justification for your recommendation - spam will be ruthlessly pruned.
Some of these recommendations were originally taken from a mailing list thread back in 2011. Feel free to add a more recent recommendation.
Static
- Github - free, and works well with git, of course - Mark
Free
- Google App Engine (GAE) - OK for infrequently changing sites that you don't want to worry about - Mark
DNS
- Portfast - Nat
Basic
- Amazon EC2
- Babbage - all members can host under their home directory and request ports to be opened
- Gradwell - Artag
- Mythic Beasts - sde
- Funio - Eithin
VPS
- Bitfolk - "they provide the server for hackspace.org.uk, their support is ace and they don't enrage me even a little bit" -Alexjs
- Bytemark - Renski, Nat, Alexjs
- linode - "I've been using them for a year, no complaints" srimech
- uk2/vps.net - used for about a year, very good service during that time, occasional bouts of latency but generally worked very well - win2k3 and linux vm's used, all fine.
- contextshift.eu - a friend's organisation, servers based in .nl, support over IRC and email. Excellent value, brilliant uptime, very little latency. - Tajasel
- Idaq - Yiannis
- Digital Ocean - very nice service, cheap, APIs Mark
- Hetzner - popular for VMs or web