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Comment by asimov42 | Hacker News Reader

Is there any serious competitor at Digital Ocean's prices?

If there's not, that'd be a red flag to me. It's amazing how long a hosting company can keep up appearances before simply vanishing; a couple do every year if you follow WebHostingTalk. The last time I chose a hosting company based on price, probably around 10 years ago now, everything was glorious (hardware/network/reliability/support) up until the moment the server dropped off the internet. Then it slowly came out that the company wasn't actually making any money while undercutting everyone else, and was several months behind in their power bills with the data center. The DC finally gave up and simply turned off their racks. Customers like myself were just screwed -- we never got even temporary access to recover data, and the company had no money to go after in court.

Oof, I know that song and dance. I was swapping to a new VPS twice a year after chasing deals on WHT.

I ended up at DO on a recommendation and have been happy since. The Linode stuff was recommended as well, but if I'm being honest it intimidated me (not as much as Rackspace/AWS). I learned a lot from those experiences and would feel better on a lot of other servers now...but the biggest thing I learned is at the very least find a company that a lot of people are talking about, as that means you won't be a lone voice trying to get support 3 days later.

http://prgmr.com/xen/plans.html has similar pricing, but not even remotely close to the specs.

Define "serious". TransIP offers a similar plan to DO's $10/mo, with 1 core, 1GB RAM, 50GB disk (not SSD), 1TB transfer, and they let you use OpenBSD or FreeBSD, besides Linux, for ~$14.

Their 2 core, 4GB, 150GB, 5TB plan is actually cheaper than DO's (~$27 vs $40).

Not affiliated, I just have a (personal) VPS with them for a couple of years, and it's been fine.

http://www.atlantic.net/cloud

check http://serverbear.com/

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