Ash HN: Which is best to host web app?

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by hodbby • 14 years ago

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My site currently works in host-gator. It is very slow. I am looking for a new place for my site (web app).

Please advise For fast, reliable and affordable price. Thanks

duiker1012• 14 years ago

Really depends on what you mean with webapp... if you say hostgator I suppose you are talking about a PHP website. It's been a long time since I last used one of those services, I now host everything on my Rackspace VPS. For ~15$ each month I have a VPS all for me wich I can manage as I want. Otherway I heard a lot of people saying that Heroku (Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala)is very good. Or Google App Engine (Java, Python, Go)

hodbby• 14 years ago

Yes it is custom php. does it mean google app and heroku is out of question?

duiker1012• 14 years ago

Yes, but there is https://phpfog.com/ which should be really good. It's developed by appfog, which is like Heroku and AppEngine

thatusertwo• 14 years ago

I've had a good experience with Godaddy, there was a lot of bad press a few months ago, but I've had no serious problems in 4 years. I have 5 or 6 different sites hosted with them.

boolean• 14 years ago

Take a look at dotCloud too. It's simple: http://docs.dotcloud.com/0.4/services/php/

jfaucett• 14 years ago

I like linode - $20 a month you get your own machine, service is great, docs are too. All I can say is maybe its too much for what you want. You also probably need to know what you're doing but as said the docs are really good so I think even total newbies would have no problems with copy/paste.

sergiotapia• 14 years ago

Check out:

GearHost (10$/month cloud hosting) Softsys Hosting (great Windows VPS for 15$/month) AppFog ASmallOrange

Ash HN: Which is best to host web app?

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