Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone recommend a VPS?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Robert Wills wrote:

I use Webfaction.

http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting

It's not a personal vps but you get ssh access and you can run any webserver you want-- even a Haskell one:

http://wrwills.webfactional.com/2009/10/30/Haskell-on-a-Webfaction-Host

They support Postgres databases too.

It's cheaper than a vps (I'm paying $8.50 a month but you can pay as little as $5.50), but possibly not as convenient.

-Rob

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Tom Tobin wrote:

...

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

...

OK, I guess the unananimous opinion in linode ;). Thanks for the input everyone!

If it helps make your client even more comfortable: not only do I use Linode for my personal VPS, but we use them at work to host some fairly popular websites. Our sysadmin absolutely loves them to death; he's always raving about how easy our hosting is now since moving there. :-)

Funny, I use a similar approach for my personal sites when I host them on nearlyfreespeech. My one complaint is that they use FreeBSD instead of Linux; if I found a webhost that let me compile straight from my Arch/Ubuntu box, I'd be very happy. (I'm sure they exist, but now I'm kind of addicted to nearlyfreespeech's cheap pricing...) Thanks for the suggestion. Michael