[ale] VPS hosting recommendations?

[David Tomaschik]

Linode customer support and stability make it worth the cost for
"production" things.  Last I checked, my Linode box was at ~600d of uptime.
 Last time I needed customer support (getting reverse DNS mappings setup),
it took <5 minutes to get a response.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM, dev null oh two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com>wrote:

> linode is also stupid overpriced.
>
> their wiki is nice tho.
>
>
> On 4/9/2013 4:11 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>
>> I very much dig Linode[1]. The packages can be a bit tight in terms of
>> resources, but the support is great. I've been using them for 3 years,
>> now. About a month ago I had my first "problem" and I didn't even know
>> about it. The host I was on started having a hardware failure, they
>> created a support ticket for my account and updated it whilst they
>> figured out the problem and fixed it. I didn't have to contact them
>> about the problem; I learned about the problem from the automatic
>> emails via the support ticket.
>>
>> [1] -- http://www.linode.com/?r=**293ad253d0b3adf4eb212d15370254**
>> 33aae89162<http://www.linode.com/?r=293ad253d0b3adf4eb212d1537025433aae89162>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations for VPS hosting providers that:
>>> 1.  Support OpenSUSE install images
>>> 2.  Have reasonable prices
>>> 3.  Do not charge huge fees for data transfer?
>>>
>>> I have been using digitalocean.com for a long time.  It costs me
>>> roughly $5 per month for their base VM.  I've been a customer long enough
>>> to be grandfathered in with unlimited data transfer.  However, they
>>> recently dropped OpenSUSE support/removed the OpenSUSE install images.  I
>>> contacted them about adding them back, and they are not willing to.  I will
>>> hold onto my account, since the price is so low and they still support Arch.
>>> However, I want to find a place where I can run OpenSUSE in a VPS/cloud
>>> setup for a low price.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any recommendations?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Allen Beddingfield
>>> Systems Engineer
>>> The University of Alabama
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