I'm a happy linode customer: http://www.linode.com/ Me too. I tried different hosting services before. They all have there strength. The linode shell is terrific!

If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter. However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running within 30min then.. Marc Weber

Hi, I'm also a happy linode customer. However, my happstack app eats a lot of memory. I currently have plans to switch to prgmr.com because their hosting plans give you much more RAM / dollar than any other hosting company I've seen ($20 / month for a gig of RAM). On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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

Michael

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Marc Weber wrote:

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I'm a happy linode customer: http://www.linode.com/ Me too. I tried different hosting services before. They all have there strength. The linode shell is terrific!

If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter. However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running within 30min then..

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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:

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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.  :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

In Europe, http://www.ovh.com has quite good prices. titto

2010/01/31 Marc Weber :

If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter. However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running within 30min then..

How did you get NixOS on your Linode system? They don't seem to offer it, last I checked. I'm looking in to doing this with PRGMR, which has pretty good pricing though it's not nearly as featureful as Linode. -- Jason Dusek

If you need to run your server continuously you might be better off with a cheap dedicated server. To run my quid2.org site, a rather complex setup with a web server and a number of background haskell processes, I use a server from the French provider OVH/Kimsufi (http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ and http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml ,main site is ovh.com). You can get a decent box for 15 euro a month and a hell of a machine for 50/60 euros. They also have some Cloud/VPS options, that I have not used. Does anyone have first-hand experience with Amazon EC2? They also look very tempting. Best, titto On 19 March 2011 10:12, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

Does anyone have any Binaries that are built to run on EC2?

That would be super!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:

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2010/01/31 Marc Weber :

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If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter. However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running within 30min then..

 How did you get NixOS on your Linode system? They don't seem to  offer it, last I checked.

 I'm looking in to doing this with PRGMR, which has pretty good  pricing though it's not nearly as featureful as Linode.

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Thanks for the info, it sounds reassuring. One question: is machine performance stable? Do you ever see your virtual machines slowing significantly? My experience in running virtual machines locally is that it is easy to use too much memory and end up with the machine badly swapping for a while. Have you ever seen this happening on EC2? Thanks, titto On 19 March 2011 12:52, Neil Davies wrote:

Hi

We run a the whole of our distributed file system (AFS) on a single AWS micro instance with linux containers inside.

We then use other instances for various things as/when needed (using kerberos to distributed the management and control to the appropriate people). For example we have a EC2 machine that we power up and down as needed (still have to pay for the filestore when not being used - but that is very small) for GHC - used it this morning to upgrade our shared (via AFS) development environment to 7.0.2. All our other systems read of that (we are completely distributed operation).

They've been great - had a physical processor go bad once - and also they had a h/w problem on one the machines once, that is in last 2 years or so about 6 operational system years.

Neil

On 19 Mar 2011, at 11:36, Pasqualino Titto Assini wrote:

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If you need to run your server continuously you might be better off with a cheap dedicated server.

To run my quid2.org site, a rather complex setup with a web server and a number of background haskell processes, I use a server from the French provider OVH/Kimsufi (http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/  and http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/dedicated_offers.xml ,main site is ovh.com).

You can get a decent box for 15 euro a month and a hell of a machine for 50/60 euros.

They also have some Cloud/VPS options, that I have not used.

Does anyone have first-hand experience with Amazon EC2?

They also look very tempting.

Best,

          titto

On 19 March 2011 10:12, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

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Does anyone have any Binaries that are built to run on EC2?

That would be super!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:

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2010/01/31 Marc Weber :

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If all you want is standard debian or such it does'nt matter. However I tried installing NixOS Linux and I've had lot's of trouble until switching to linode. NixOS was up and running within 30min then..

 How did you get NixOS on your Linode system? They don't seem to  offer it, last I checked.

 I'm looking in to doing this with PRGMR, which has pretty good  pricing though it's not nearly as featureful as Linode.

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