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DigitalOcean
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Beginner-friendly
DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS.
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No DDoS protection
When Digital Ocean detects what they think may be a DoS attack, they will cut traffic to the droplet to avoid performance drops to neighbors etc. This means if your droplet comes under attack, or appears to be under attack, it will be disconnected from the network, effectively down.
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Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options
Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.
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Limited payment options
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Competetive starter-level pricing
With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider.
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Setup is not as fast as advertised
A person who wants to set this up, set that up, configure this and so forth - and who has minimal time pressures would be okay. But the time it takes to be set up can be crucial for people who want to get up and running as fast as possible.
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Extensive Tutorials/Guides
People can often find tutorials needed provided by DigitalOcean.
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Don't accept Bitcoin yet
Even though it's one of the most voted suggestions on their customer feedback website, DigitalOcean does not accept any crypto-currency payment methods.
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Good API
DigitalOcean has an API for creating and destroying droplets and replicating droplet control panel functionality. The API is RESTful, uses oAuth, supports IPv6 and comes with an extensive documentation.
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Limited Locations, compared to others
I know with many applications, locations are not always super important. However there are several good reason to have certain locations. Only having East Coast and West Coast happens to be an issue for us and a few of our partners.
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(New) Block Storage Volumes
You can now attach dynamic distributed (assuming SAN) storage to a droplet. Multiple droplets cannot attach to the same volume. The storage is very affordable and there are easy to follow how-to guides. (as of writing, only in certain datacenters)
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Terrible support
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Flexible backup mechanism
Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually.
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Great customer support
Quick and knowledgeable customer service, extensive documentation and helpful community.
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IPv6:
Yes
Server locations:
New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore
ISOs:
Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD
Virtualization:
KVM
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Heroku
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Easy to start with
Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot.
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Constrained by addons
If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it.
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Excellent error logs 
When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison.
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Further deployments are slow
While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. It takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the application is completely offline. Which means that you can lose precious seconds of application time.
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Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies
Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you.
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Really expensive
Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey.
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Simple scaling
Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI.
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Dedicated build servers
Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app.
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Mature
Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users.
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Free option
Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space.
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RamNode
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Cheap
Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. There is CPanel shared hosting for $4/mo and a $10 VPS will get you twice the resources as most competitors.
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Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities
Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced.
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Good performance
RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them.
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Support is responsive
Even on a Saturday night RamNode support responds to a ticket in less than 15 minutes.
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Server locations:
Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam
ISOs:
CentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2
Virtualization:
KVM; OpenVZ
Custom ISO:
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pCloud
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No file size limits
Allows you to store your HD videos, FLAC music files, and large documents.
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Not a well known company
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Lifetime options for storage space
Allows you to subscribe for life instead of paying every month/year.
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Software develoment has bad QA
The fact the mapping issue even exists is a token of bad QA in software development.
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Desktop app doesn't take space on hard disk
Computers see it as a network drive.
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Adds drivemapping without asking
The desktop app adds a P: drivemapping without asking for confirmation. Dangerous (not to say totally irresponsible) in case you already have a drive mapped.
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Other users can upload files to your storage
Have others upload files directly to your account from any browser using "Upload links".
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Low bandwith
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Cross-platform
Backup and use your files from any device with Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS.
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Very reliable
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No synchronization speed limits
Sync files as fast as your internet plan allows you to.
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Linux client
Support for all file systems and distributions.
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Rewind option for FREE
Rewind option is possible for free up to 15 days back in time, 30 days back with Premium plans and you can pay for a whole year of file versioning only 39 EUR!
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Easy Sharing
A lot of sharing options between accounts and other non-pCloud-users.
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Branding of Download links
Cool branding feature possible for the videos and pictures :)
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Free 10gb of storage
Higher than most of the other cloud services except Mega.
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2tb storage and 2tb bandwidth
Unlike all the other clouds this makes it great for sharing large files. To lots of people.
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Free bandwidth with ads
This is nice if you don't care about what is people see on the page when you share the file and you have large files to send.
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WebDAV access
Files can be accessed using WebDAV (although there is a limitation at the moment that prevents access via WebDAV if two-factor authentication is set up.. hopefully to be resolved in the near future).
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
Mobile App:
Yes
Offline access:
Yes
Versioning:
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Newfang Cloud
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Transparent and Simple Billing
I am currently using it for free under Alpha release, but the pricing is straight forward with billing for storage and download, no unnecessary list of unbundled API' are billed. All the usage is logged on the blockchain that can be audited against the bill.
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New to the market
The service is relatively new, but migration shouldn't be a problem
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Privacy Focused and Transparent
All the files are encrypted and access is logged on the blockchain that I can verify. Only those with access can view the files.
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Good for video streaming & hosting
Due to the distributed nature of servers, video streaming is performant and better than current providers. Quite cheaper too. Files are downloaded from an edge network.
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Very easy to integrate
SDK just has a couple of endpoints with good documentation
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Linode
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Excellent support
Linode's support is amazing. Tickets are usually answered within minutes, if there's a network or hardware issue it's usually resolved before anyone even notices.
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Backups have become unreliable
I've been a Linode customer for 10+ years, but over the past 3+ years their backups have become unreliable, which is unacceptable for a paid extra to the service. I've had multiple issues with backups failing, and restoring from a backup has caused my VPS to fail to deliver website content for reasons neither I nor Linode support could figure out. In the end, I just had to rebuild the server from scratch with a personal backup.
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Gives you the chance to fix problems without relying on support
If you mess things up in your Linode instance, for example with the filesystem or boot configuration, Linode allows you to run a recovery ISO so you can try and fix things yourself without relying on Linode's support team.
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Not really suitable if you have a very heavy CPU application
They'll cap your usage if you go above 80% for a sustained period - even on very large expensive boxes (if you use Load Balancers offered, this can be mitigated).
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Speed
Their VPSs are very fast.
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For more advanced users
Can be an issue for those not used to setting up their own server. Managed services are really expensive if help is needed.
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Allows you to do things that usually can only be done if you have access to the hardware
Linode allows you to create memory partitions and copy or move them around. Furthermore, it even lets you reboot your instance with smaller RAM in order to simulate how your application would act if your Linode instance gets downgraded.
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No self-help migrating option
If you want to migrate to another hosting solution from Linode, you can't do it by yourself. You have to open a support ticket.
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Comprehensive, well documented API
The API gives access to nodes, nodebalancers, stackscripts, DNS, and accounts.
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Treats customer as a liability
Many malpractices in the name of machine abuse. Their machines get abused with just 10% steady cpu utilization.
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Provides SDKs for several languages
SDKs are available for Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, and Node.js.
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Stack scripts
Stack scripts gives you the chance to build a completely custom Linode stack with multiple custom features and options all run automatically and set up.
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New Cloud Beta user interface
A new user interface is under development which will still keep the same level of power Linode offers but with a cleaner interface. Showing forward thinking and continued improvement.
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GPU:
Yes
IPv6:
Yes
Server locations:
London; Frankfurt; Fremont; Newark; Atlanta; Dallas; Tokyo; Singapore; Mumbai; Toronto; Sydney
ISOs:
Arch; CentOS; Debian; Fedora; Gentoo; openSUSE; Slackware; Ubuntu
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NearlyFreeSpeech
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Very scalable
NearlyFreeSpeech charges per resources and services used, as such it is very scalable and makes static site hosting very cheap for users who decide to go with this hosting option since static sites require very little resources.
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Only for those who know what they are doing
They do absolutely no "hand holding" unless you purchase a support package and even then it's barebones.
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Relatively easy to use
NearlyFreeSpeech provides SFTP access and a more traditional shared hosting environment compared to other services. This makes it easy for users who are not very advanced but still want to create a static site.
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The FAQ is so long that you can spend over an hour reading it
That's the FAQ if you are thinking about becoming a member. There's a much more detailed FAQ for members.
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Very privacy oriented
They will never discuss your situation with anyone to the extent that the law allows. They won't even state why a website is down. If you are not the account holder, don't expect any details from them.
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Not free
Although it can be very cheap to host a simple static site on NearlyFreeSpeech for about $3/$4 a year, it still is not free.
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Very informative FAQ
The FAQ will address pretty much everything you might want to know before joining, and then some.
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Vultr
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Great performance
Vultr consistently has great results in benchmarks compared to other VPS providers. It's true that VPS benchmarks are famous for not being very credible because they depend on a myriad of outside variables (most notably instances hosted on the same hardware and distance from the data-center). But still, Vultr scores consistently high in several different benchmarks such as CPU performance and MySQL compilation times.
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New hardware
Compare to DO hardware are old.
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Wide geographic coverage
Vultr boasts more than a dozen datacenters across the world, ensuring maximal geographic coverage and the chance to increase loading speed wherever your largest demographics may be in the world.
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Sub-par documentation
While Vultr does offer documentation, it's not of a very high quality. Not everything is covered and it's more aimed at advanced users. So it wouldn't be a good choice for a beginner.
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Your own IP Space (BGP AS)
You can announce your own BGP space across all of Vultr's datacenters worldwide.
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No billing-support on sunday
Added 30 dollars of funds to a new account on a Sunday, however Vultr did not allow me to deploy because of a insufficient funds message. Added support ticket, received the answer that billing related issues are only resolved on workdays.
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Custom ISO support
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Bitcoin payment support
Vultr supports Bitcoin payment. If you want to be extra careful about security and the security of your credit card/bank account/paypal account you can pay with Bitcoins.
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Quick-deploy apps
Vultr offers stock "apps", such as LEMP, Wordpress, Mincraft, Webmin, ownCloud, etc, that can be deployed instantly.
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Daily automatic backup
Vultr is capable of running daily backups with two most recent backups stored. Time of backup can be changed.
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Server locations:
London; Frankfurt; Paris; Amsterdam; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Los Angeles; Chicago; New Jersey; Dallas; Atlanta; Miami; Tokyo; Sydney
ISOs:
Ubuntu; CentOS; Debian; FreeBSD; Windows Server 2012 R2
Virtualization:
KVM
Custom ISO:
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Amazon S3
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Credit card needed
Amazon will try to retrieve the money every month after one year trial. If you have no money you will be banned.
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Free for small sites
The free tier will cover most personal home pages.
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Setting up automatic public permissions is confusing
By default, S3 sets uploaded files to private. You can configure your S3 bucket to auto-apply public permissions by copying and pasting a template. But the template might be intimidating to some users.
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Easily scalable
There's no cap in storage or traffic. Cost is based on usage.
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Confusing web interface
Amazon S3's web interface is quite confusing, especially for first-time users, but there are many tutorials online that help beginners to set up a static site on S3.
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Super cheap with a year's worth of free service
S3 storage costs $0.03 per GB and gets cheaper the more is stored, PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests are $0.005 per 1,000 requests and GET and all other requests are $0.004 per 10,000 requests. And with some restrictions is available for free for a year.
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No SFTP support
Amazon S3 does not have SFTP support, instead the S3 web interface has to be used.
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Fast setup
You can provision a S3 bucket, upload files, setup the DNS, and go live in under 10 minutes.
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Fast
S3 is fast even without a CDN.
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Easy to setup with CDN
Simple to set up with Amazon's CloudFont CDN.
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Supports custom root domains
To set up a custom domain, Amazon Route 53 has to be configured as the DNS provider with the domain registrar, two buckets have to be created and configured with the name the same as the domain - one including, one excluding www. A more in-depth explanation can be found here.
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No security risks
There's no server to manage, so no security issues to patch or keep watch.
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Google Cloud Storage
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Cheap (about $0.01/GB/Month)
Same price a Google Drive, but more flexible as you pay for what you use (Google Drive you have to jump from 100 MB to 1 TB for example). Also supports larger backups.
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Optionally supports versioning
Versioning can be enabled at no extra cost so you may retrieve older versions or deleted files.
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Works with duplicity
duplicity allows to encrypt data locally using GPG and it supports Google Cloud Storage.
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Can be shared with other people
Via the Google Cloud Platform or their CLI tool, you can create publicly accessible URLs to parts of your data.
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Rethink
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All feature that I mention on pros is totally free you don't have to pay for single money
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Their contact support is not good
I emailed them for issue but not any reply
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you can make and store your notes on cloud
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you can only connect 2 clouds at one time untill professional plan
If you want to connect other clouds then you must disconnect any of one of two
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About 100 preview available on cloud
for example If you want to view video just click and see the online video start on rethinks player
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I think price is high as compared to others clouds
4$ /month only for 50 GB 8 $ /month for 500GB 13 $/month for 1TB
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You can download files without using your internet data on your rethink cloud (inbuild online download manager)
If you want to download for example 100 mb file from google drive to your rethink account for example any confidental data that delete in future. 1.just click on create icon on rethink 2.click on download url enter url of your file and give its name. click download and save buttom. After few minutes you see your files are downloaded by rethink cloud without using 1 mb of your data and then download it anytime.
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They doesn't develop any app on any platform it is fully web based
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Neat and clean interface and have 2FA option for extra security
Just go and enable it from settings if you don't trust anyone and want extra security
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site is sometimes buggy or unstable.If you refresh then problem is solve
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It is so fast
I personally use it in uploading file and transfer from other clouds it is so fast. for example if you transfer (it just copy it not delete original one) any 1GB or 2GB file from pcloud to rethink it take about 1 minute.
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It require download from fast servers
If your download files that have limitation for example if website give only 100kbps speed then rethink not download that file by pasting link. but You can download then upload that file to rethink
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get Popular clouds integration in one place
It integrates with box google drive onedrive outlook zoho dropbox pcloud and more. you can see on their site Just integrate by sign up on that account of that site then transfer files or make link of your data from that cloud to rethink that's your choice.
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I personally see it download 500 mb file but not download 1GB file if you download file by create buttom from anywhere from web
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You get upto additional 2TB storage by referring upto 200 friends.if your friend signup on site
Rethink have referral like this 1st friend=3 GB 3rd friends =5GB extra (total 8GB) 5th friends=10GB extra (total 18 GB) .... total 100th friends=1 TBextra (total you calculate like above)
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You can't see or create google docs,excel preview directly
If you want to see or create google docs or excel preview then you must integrate google drive with rethink to do so.
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10 GB free storage (Basic Plan)
if you are referred by your friend then you and your friend both get additional 2GB storage if you don't have friend then you sign up with my referral, https://rethink.software/signup?referrerId=c1rr5a0wlrpzdiz42m2ar OR other option is to pay for extra storage
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PythonAnywhere
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Easy setup
It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
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Python-only on the server side
Obviously you can put JavaScript in your web pages and so on, but you can't use Rails or Node.
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Easy scaling
You pay for a number of "Workers" for your web app (to handle requests), or CPU seconds for code that you run outside a web app, and you can get more workers or CPU seconds by upgrading your plan any time.
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No WebSocket support
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Excellent customer service
Really fast turnaround, friendly.
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Free option
You can run a website at USERNAME.pythonanywhere.com for free, and it's good enough for a light-traffic website -- it runs 24/7. You get a free MySQL or SQLite database too.
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Flexible payments
You can pay monthly and cancel any time, or pay for a year up front to get a discount.
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Not too expensive
A basic site with no custom domain is free. $5 a month will afford the user enough power for a typical 100,000 hit a day website.
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OVH
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Horrible support
I opened several tickets, but I didn't got ANY response.
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Cheap
The cheapest plan VPS SSD 1 is at $3.49 /month with : OpenStack KVM 1 vCore 2.4 GHz 2 GB RAM 10 GB SSD Local RAID 10
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Difficult, awkward to manage your server's resources
They only provide an upgrade path for CPU, RAM, disk. If you wish to downgrade later, you can't, you must rebuild your server from scratch.
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Advanced DDoS protection
DDoS protection available on most plans. And advanced game server DDoS protection available as well.
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Google Drive
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No official client for Linux
Google as of yet has a client for Linux, leaving many who use the service forced to use third party apps or the webpage.
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File sharing & collaborative editing
Google account holders and non-holders can be set to access and/or collaborate on files/folders in real-time. Additionally, you can find files you've shared not only by filename but by person you've shared the files with.
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Data privacy not guaranteed
Data privacy is widely known as one of Google's weaknesses. Data shared through Google is most likely matched up with the user's profile inside other Alphabet inc. subsidiaries, and, due to the business model, used commercially.
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15GB free
This space is shared across Drive, Gmail & Google Photos.
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Terms and Conditions allow Google to own anything on Google Drive
They can create derivative works, they can perform it, they can modify it, and they can publish it at will. There are many other specific rights they take over your product. Read the Terms carefully and compare with ANY others.
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Built-in office suite
Includes tools for writing, presentations and spreadsheets.
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Very unreliable
Desktop client constantly crashes.
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Integrates with other Google services
For example, you can use search to search through both Drive and Gmail.
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No WebDAV, FTP or SFTP
It supports none of these common protocols used for access to network storage, which severely limits OS integration. You are forced to use the browser or a standalone client, which isn't possible on all systems.
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Extended functionality via apps
Third party Drive applications running in Chrome or Android can add functionality such as image/video editing, project management, flowchart creation, etc.
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Low bandwidth
Can't even upload all my files to this
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Mobile integration
You can work from any device, especially mobile.
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Low sync speed
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Save files to drive directly from Gmail
Drive lets you save any file from your email.
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No universal Windows app
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Cheap for extra storage
$1.99 per 100GB, for up to 16TB.
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Doesn't integrate well with OS
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Revision control
By clicking Ctrl + Alt + G in Windows or Command + Alt + Shift + G is OS X you can access previous version of the file.
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Indexes images
You can search images by object, place, or face when they've been added to your google photos collection. Google Assistant also helps you find screenshots that could be archived, images that aren't in the correct orientation and pictures that would work well as animations or albums.
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Windows; OSX; Linux; Android; iOS
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15 GB
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Dropbox
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Easy to use
You can use Dropbox via website, by installing a desktop client that creates a folder that you simply drag and drop files into, or with their mobile app. Everything synchronizes across all devices used and cloud storage. And Dropbox offers easy methods of sharing whatever is within it.
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Too little free space
There is just too little of free space available comparing to the competition.
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Cross-platform desktop and mobile
Dropbox is available on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, OS X and Linux. By having a client for so many OS's pretty much anyone is covered no matter what kind of device or OS they are using.
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Not secure
They don't apply end-to-end encryption, files are visible to admins, governments, etc..
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Allows sharing a folder
Using a desktop client: right click on the folder you want to share and select Dropbox > Share This Folder, then enter the e-mail addressees of people you want to share the folder with.
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No privacy
Extensive collecting and distribution of user data to commercial third parties.
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Smart updates to big files
If a small portion of the file is changed it sends/receives only the differences (not the whole file), which is fast and bandwidth-efficient.
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Consumes a lot of CPU resources when syncing many files
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Allows sharing a single file via link
Whether using desktop client or web interface, simply right click on the file you want to share and select Dropbox > Share link, then send the link to the people you want to share the file with. The recipient does not require a Dropbox account.
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All-or-nothing (non-selective) upload
Uploading generated contents (cache, compiled code, etc.) is prone to conflicts, wastes bandwidth and free space.
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Up to 18GB of free storage space
Dropbox personal accounts start out free, with 2GB of space, but users can get extra space by recommending the site to friends, or taking part in events like "Dropquest", where users can win extra space by solving puzzles.
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Low bandwidth
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Linux support
Dropbox offers native Linux support, integrates with Nautilus file manager.
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Dropbox keeps deleting features, chasing customers away
For instance, all photo albums got deleted. It used to be very easy to share a couple og photos, now it's PAINFUL and must be done file by file.
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Reliable
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Nocive development model
Takes a lot of decisions that usually damage community, from deleting features to making impossible to use with other filesystems than ext4 because they decided without a plausible reason (they said it was about xattrs, but all modern linux filesystems supports xattrs, so it's bs.)(they remove this later, but it's too late).
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Desktop client has no file size limit
As long as you have enough storage available, you can upload files of any size using Dropbox desktop client.
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Problems when synching between Linux and Windows devices (unconfirmed)
This summer I lost thousands of files due to this problem on older projects which subsequently needed revising and had to be rebuilt as tons of the source was gone.
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Folders can be downloaded compressed to save bandwidth
To save bandwidth and download speed you can choose to compress a folder into a zip archive for download.
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Restricted only to 3 devices for FREE accounts
Recently dropbox decreased the number of linked devices to 3, so you can't have more than 3 linked devices. This is problematic if you use Dropbox to sync between your computers.
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Adjustable bandwidth use
To not slow down the network or save traffic you can limit the upload and download speeds of Dropbox.
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Can unintentionally delete your files if you reinstall your OS without closing Dropbox
If you reinstall the operation system for your PC and you do not close Dropbox, it will delete all files.
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Lots of addons and integrations
There are official and third-party Dropbox add-ons that extend the functionality of the service and add ease of use of existing features. Additionally, Dropbox can be integrated with existing applications to bring its functionality to other apps.
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30-day version control
Dropbox keeps deleted and earlier versions of files for a month.
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Instant disaster recovery
Your files always synced online means instant disaster recovery. When your hard drive becomes unbootable, pick up another laptop and just carry on with your life from where you last saved.
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Available free storage can be increased with referrals
You get extra free space for you and your friend if they sign up.
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Fast sync speed
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Offline access:
Yes
Versioning:
Yes
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Google App Engine
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Not a core Google product faces uncertin future
Google is notorious with flipping on technology directions, this product is clearly not the focus of Google.
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Increases application speed considerably
Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably.
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Expenses are very hard to control
The monitoring for expenses is limited at best.
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Easy to use
Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it. For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy inside the project folder and it will be automatically deployed.
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Problematic support even in the paid grade
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No SQL database available
Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application.
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Cloudant
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4
Cons
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Can replicate the database across several hosts
You can choose to host your database on a single cloud provider or you can replicate it over several different providers.
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Can only achieve consistency through replication and verification
Since CouchDB is considered an AP (Available, Partition-Tolerant database management system), it is not really consistent (not all clients can have the same view of the data consistently) and the only way to achieve some "eventual consistency" is through replication and verification of data.
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Runs on both bare-metal and virtual machine
Users can choose whether their database instance will run on bare-metal or a virtual machine
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Crash friendly
The database behind Cloudant, CouchDB uses an append-only file for it's data. To restore already used up space, a compaction must happen. When this happens is up to the database maintainer.
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Cloud agnostic
Cloudant hosts databases with a lot of different cloud hosting providers including Amazon, Rackspace, SoftLayer and Microsoft Azure. This way customers can choose where their database is hosted.
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Bluehost
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Cons
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Has Been Hacked
BlueHost has suffered security breaches before and was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army in 2015, along with other EIG-owned hosts.
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Recommended by Wordpress.org
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Owned by EIG
Endurance International Group (EIG) is notorious for buying out web hosts and customers often notice a drop in quality and support. They also own BlueHost.
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Censorship
BlueHost has been under fire in the past for censoring web pages for controversial people.
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Sync
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5GB of free storage
250% more space than Dropbox basic plan.
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Privacy conscious
Terms and conditions favor user privacy.
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Encryption
Data is fully encrypted on the client-side, both in-transit and at-rest.
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Two-factor authentication
Even free accounts offer 2FA.
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GitLab Pages
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Easy to setup
Gitlab pages are quick and simple to setup, with documentation that's short and fast to read through.
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Regular updates
GitLab is being constantly worked on and has a new release every month.
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Free private repositories
On gitlab.com you can have free private repositories.
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Open Source
Unlike BitBucket or GitHub, GitLab itself is Open Source. Even EE (which is needed for pages, but is free on Gitlab.com) is "source available".
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Web, Linux, BSD
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