[GRLUG] Shared to VPS questions

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm helping a friend out with their website (boardgame and comic book
> convention) and am starting to research VPS's.  Right now I have the
> website, which is written in drupal, on my Dreamhost shared hosting plan.
> The speed of the site does leave something to be desired, the developer
> managed to tweak it a bit and speed things up but if they are correct things
> are going to heat up and I don't know if this site could stay on the shared
> plan.
>
> What VPS's are out there that are a reasonable price.  Next year is the
> first year of the convention so right now money is tight.  The Dreamhost VPS
> looks good, compared to host gator and Slicehost.
>
> I also looked up Amazon Web Services.  There seems to be a free option that
> looks pretty good. http://aws.amazon.com/free/  Is AWS somewhat equivalent
> to a vps?  Is this something I should research more?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

EC2 is not for the faint of heart.

Personally, I use prgmr.com. It's very cheap, and my uptime is very
good. There are absolutely no frills, though; you get a server whose
console you access only via ssh, and you get billing invoices via
email that you can pay via paypal or check.

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