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Where should I host my app: amazon ec2/softlayer/Google compute engine

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This totally, totally depends on your requirements. However, my preference is at least a VPS, if not a dedicated server. A dedicated server (or even a couple) can be had fairly cheaply now, and you can get amazing performance out of even a lower-end dedicated server. But again, totally depends on your requirements. More info?

[edit] What do I mean by cheap dedicated? By watching this page: https://www.datashack.net/dedicated/ I got a dual processor dual core amd 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, 146GB SAS drive (as a bonus, mine was upgraded to SSD!) and 20tb of transfer, for $35/month. If you're concerned about reliability, you can get several of this class of machines from different companies for redundancy. (compare to what you'd get for $35/month from AWS) It just takes some hard work & research.

You can also explore dotcloud. I have been using it for more than a year now and it's quite good.

I'm a fan of rackspace cloud. I find their performance to be better than EC2.

Same question in mind here. I can't post ask because I just got created my account, but upon googling overnight, it seems that budget seems to be the most de-facto you must have. Interested to some folks posting more hosting experiences.

why not your own VPS?

Depends how much money you have. Unless you have fluctuating scaling needs I would stick with a VPS or dedicated. You will get a lot more 'bang for your buck'. Just avoid companies like GoDaddy, Linode etc.

Have a look around:

http://webhostingtalk.com

What? What's wrong with Linode?

Google "Linode Security".

This year they had a major security incident which resulted in a number of their customers being compromised. We still don't know exactly what happened, what they did to fix it or whether it will happen again. And as a customer at the time we heard about it on Reddit days before they bothered to tell us about it.

That lack of transparency is completely unacceptable and a giant warning sign to take your business elsewhere.

Now I'm embarrassed that I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the reminder. I'll stick with AWS and the super cheap Tiny Azure Linux VMs.

Perhaps many hosts have the same security issue, but they haven't been targeted due to having less bitcoins. I suspect instead the Linode incident was an inside job, in which case it could happen anywhere regardless of security. Still, Linode should provide more info about what they did if anything to fix it.

I second webhostingtalk.com - I go there every time I have unique hosting needs. Spend some time reading the forums and you'll find the perfect hosting package for you.

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