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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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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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F(x) Data Cloud
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Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
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No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.
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High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
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Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
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Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
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Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
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Server locations:
United States
ISOs:
Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows
Cloud Storage:
Yes
Virtualization:
KVM
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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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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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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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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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AIT
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OS
Can add Windows for free.
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Need hosting knowledge
If you subscribe for an unmanaged VPS.
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Price
Starts from $4.99.
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V2 Cloud
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Easy to use
It's fast enough and a user friendly solution to move your operations to a cloud-based computer. This is the company to work with.
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No GPU
If you are looking for a system that has GPU, this solution isn't recommended.
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The customer support services they offer are second to none
Basically, the system has an inbuilt chat window that you can use to interact with tech support and get instant assistance.
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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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Luna Node
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Extremely low cost
Plans start at $3.6 per month and include plans where you only pay for the CPU and bandwidth that you use. A 2GB RAM 40GB disk 2 core VPS that is idle most of the time can cost ~$6 per month.
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Bitcoin can only be used as a payment after a credit card has been added to the users account
Bitcoin can only be used once the user has added their credit card info into their Luna node account. This pretty much negates the point of using bitcoin, if you need to hand over your personal information anyways.
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Best Value
Their 1 GB VPS plan (m.1s) is $3.5/mo, haven't noticed any downtime after two years and it is very good price for that much RAM.
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Occasional downtime
Has planned and unplanned downtime of the network occasionally. More frequent than larger VPS providers, on the order of 5 minutes a month. Not an issue for personal and small business use. They are actively improving this though.
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Bitcoin payment support
Pay for credit through many payment methods including Bitcoin and Paypal.
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Tons of features
They have tons of features like snapshots, block storage, and free e-mail hosting.
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Use any OS
Uses KVM so you can use any OS, even more obscure ones like NixOS. Upload your own ISOs ore QEMU images.
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VNC access to terminal
Makes it easier to fix boot image issues on unsupported ISOs.
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Gandi
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All-inclusive package
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Can be perceived as lacking professionalism due to the blunt "no bs" tagline
At face value, Gandi's "no bs" marketing slogan and tone may be perceived as unprofessional, especially in the eyes of corporate or otherwise sensitive clients of yours.
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Free unlimited subdomains
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Whois protection doesn't hide the name
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Two-factor authentication
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No catch all email forwarding
Gandi does not support wildcard email forwarding for undefined addresses.
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Free email forwarding
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Free web mail
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Best in basic features
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Private Whois registration is included
Private whois registration is provided without any extra charges.
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Programmatic API support
Via XML-RPC.
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Strong Anti-SOPA stance
Gandi took a stand against SOPA.
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Access levels and delegating is easy
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AccuWeb Hosting
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Affordable
AccuWeb Hosting provides the most affordable Windows and Linux VPS starting at just $7.99/month.
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Provides additional services
They also provide any additional service for hosting like domain registration, SPAM filtering, CDN service, SSL Certificates. All of their plan includes free backup service with unlimited restores.
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Great support system
They have a 24/7/365 live chat and ticket support, which is the best.
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IPv6:
Yes
Server locations:
US, Canada, France, UK, Germany, India, Singapore, Australia
ISOs:
Windows 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016, Linux Distribution
Virtualization:
Xen, HyperV
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HostNOC
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Email and extra services
free antivirus, email forwarding, and SpamAssassin with every plan
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No yearly payment option
since you can only be billed monthly, there are no discounts if you want to buy a service for multiple years
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Money-back guarantee
you can get your money back within 15 days if you didn't like their shared or reseller hosting
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Restrictive disk space
you only get a 100 MB to 2 GB of disk space with shared hosting plans
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Affordable prices
every plan is created to give you the most tools and features for the price
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Phone and chat support
you get fast and reliable help whenever you need it with HostNoc's 24/7/365 support.
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Money-back guarantee
you can get your money back within 15 days if you didn't like their shared or reseller hosting
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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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Google Cloud Platform
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TPUs
Tensor Processing Units are bare-metal units designed to train your Machine Learning models faster. This is exclusive only to Google Cloud Platform.
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Expensive
GCP might be cheaper than AWS but it is more expensive than Azure. The main reason for this might be because of the extensive investment done for datacenters being efficient and green and secure.
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Free tier
GCP gives your 365 days of free trial and 300 US$ credit including a Always Free if you upgrade.
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Live Migrating VMs does not apply to GPU-attached VMs
Because this kind of VMs has a direct passthrough to the Processing Unit, this is not available and restart only will be available for the VM attached.
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Live-migrating VMs
Your VMs will still run even if there is a maintenance work going on to the tenant running your VM - thanks to Google's Live-migration system.
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Unstable Egress/Ingress
Google Cloud Platform is a bit unstable with its egress and ingress. You may receive subtle blips when maintenance work is being carried on the routing.
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Clear IAM roles
Unlike most Enterprise-grade IAM role systems, GCP has a clearer IAM permissions model, with Azure following.
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First-class Kubernetes support
Kubernetes is a project from Google's Borg. GCP is the first Kubernetes-Certified infrastructure.
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Secure and efficient to the core
Google datacenters are built with minimal security issues in mind while still reducing carbon footprint, making Google datacenters a much more greener infrastructure than competitors.
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Runs on the same infrastructure with Google's Services
Google's datacenters runs your favorite video streaming services and even Google itself. Discord also relies on GCP to handle its workloads.
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Server locations:
US East, US West, US Central, Asia, Europe
ISOs:
Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Container-optimized OS, CoreOS, Custom
Virtualization:
KVM
Cloud Storage:
Yes
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Cloud at Cost
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Cheap. Like, really cheap...
With the coupons they offer all the time you really can't beat the price when you consider its a one time fee.
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Service
You get what you pay for. Don't expect stellar customer support or blazing fast boxes. I only use these for really basic things. I have one running GitLab to back up my code, a couple running Cloud 9 so I can dev straight on the server, and one as a proxy for when I'm on public wifi or something. Don't think you are going to run your company's web site on these servers.
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Good variety of OS selections
You can load several variants of Linux (Ubuntu, Cent OS, Debian, etc.) and they even let you throw Windows 7 on them (security nightmare, but whatever). You have to enter your own Win 7 key.
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