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I just came across this new york based cloud hosting provider targeting just developers, they were in the startup news because they have raised 30+ million in funding.
https://www.digitalocean.com/[^]
The plans are crazy cheap. I haven't tried it. So if anyone looking for a cheaper hosting option and willing to give it a try, please share your experience.
There is even a $50 credit for writing a tutorial[^].
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I have just seen someone pushing their hosting over on the bitcoin forums to use them for cloud mining......wasn't you was it? 
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Very cool. I just signed up - Heroku is great if you want free, but it's nice to explore other "almost free" options as well.
Thanks for the post!
Marc
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Hey Marc,
What OS do their VMs come in? Thanks.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: What OS do their VMs come in? Thanks.
Various flavors of Linux and one of Ubuntu 12.10, I think.
Marc
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Thanks Marc.
That probably explains the relatively cheaper costs. Most VPS hosting providers offer Windows Server 2012.
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Thanks for heads up. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I have been trying them out for a few weeks now. So far so good. I have a VPS elsewhere just for my own hobby and may switch to digital ocean after I get everything setup with one domain the way I like it. Biggest problem I have had is configuring a mail server. LAMP config is easy. The really cool part is before I start a big install of something I make a snapshot so that if I screw things up I can get back to before the screw up. You can also install a desktop and VNC and use TightVNC to see an actual desktop. I didn't like the desktop real well it hogged resources bad. (I'm on the 1G of memory $10/US plan).
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Good to know. Thanks.
Do they give you a static ip? Because I have spent good amount of time trying to setup vmware's Zimbra Mail Server on CentOS using Windows Azure Virtual Machine. And I learn that Zimbra is not a stable software. And Azure VM gets new IP every time it restarts, which makes your DNS/SPF records invalid and your mails starts getting tagged as spam. Amazon AWS do support elastic IP address.
So after several failed attempts to get a cheaper mail server, finally switched to Google Apps. 
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Yes, you get a static IP. I have deleted and started many new servers and have always had the same IP address.
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Nice, I will give it a try.
Thanks.
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The other thing that bothers me is their DNS is controlled in their "control panel". I'd rather run Bind on my VPS. But I'm getting used to it. My current VPS (not digitalocean) I can create a subdomain, restart bind, and it is there! It takes about 30 minutes for a subdomain DNS record to update at digitalocean.
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I hear you, but if we consider the price point, I think I can wait 30 min.
or better if they are giving us a static IP and a VM that is not behind a NAT box, then I will just use my Domain Hosting's DNS services, it gets updated right away.
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The more I think about it though... as long as I have a static IP address I should be able to bypass their DNS and run Bind on the server? I'm not a DNS expert though.
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Yes, you can sure do that.
You only need local DNS service, when you are behind a NAT box, i.e. Azure will give you 2 different IP Address 1 internal and 1 external. So you need a Bind to bridge these two. But if you have just 1 static IP, you don't need Bind on your VM.
I would just use the DNS service provided by the Domain Hosting company, and not use Digital Ocean or even Bind on the local VM.
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I got curious...
I went to GoDaddy and created NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM and NS2.MYOMAIN.COM that both point to the IP address of my digital ocean server.
So once those propagate NS1 and NS2 should point to my servers IP address?
Once I can ping those I will setup Bind on the digital ocean server and mess with it. Sounds to me that it should work.
If I can get this set up this way I will drop my "old host" because I will save $20/month.
As I said before my server is just a hobby, I do have mail for a friends domain hosted on other server but the http goes to his other site (via DNS, his domain points to my server), I'm pretty much just the mail server for him. I do need more than local DNS because of that.
Guess I'm setting this up as a webhost instead of a test machine
Randy
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Thanks for the link...it's an impressive amount of VPS for that much money...and they take PayPal!
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Someone named Glenn sent me a private message re: Arvixe. I erroneously deleted that message and can't get to it again thru CP. So Glenn, could you pl. email me directly at my email address shown in my sig? Thanks!
[Edit] Argh. My sig has disappeared. Just send me another msg thru CP. Thanks.
/ravi
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No, different Glenn.
/ravi
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I was Glenn close.
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/ravi
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That was terrible. But it made me chuckle. +5
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You trying to find Glenfiddich aren't you, or maybe the Glen Scotia, Glencadam, Glendronach, Glengoyne, Glenkinchie, Glen Garioch or maybe the Glenmorangie?
It is probably in the same isle as the Gin.
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Hmm... not a scotch drinker. Sprite Zero is my poison.
/ravi
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