Lots of people ask me where I host my ColdFusion sites or recommendations for quality hosting. At work we use a large ( but expensive provider ) which is mostly out of individuals budgets. For my side projects I have switched to Amazon EC2 as my primary VPS solution. In fact the Windows and Linux micro instances are now free fro a year and you can run mySQL and ColdFusion on one of these servers. If you really want it to be free run Railo ( it's also got less over head ). I'd also recommend Rackspace as there cloud offering is really fast and they have great support. I'm also a fan of a bargain and have quite a few smaller VPS's that I pickup on sale from LowEndBox.com there often worth a try to get your Linux skills updated. As for shared hosting I don't have any preference but I do have an account at HostingAToZ which is very cheap ( $12.50 a year ) and hosts quite a few of the demos on this blog. Any one any have suggestions?
We used to have quite a few servers in Co-location but we have stopped that as really who wants to also manage and support hardware.
I host using a VPS (with Railo/MySQL) as a small server does most of my needs. I've played around with Amazon EC2 a bit but the unknown/variable costs side throws me a little. Plus when I have done my calculations I can never seem to get it as cheaps as my VPS offering. That said I'm probably doing something wrong in my calculations.
ReplyDeleteI recently switched hosting of my personal website to HostMediaUK (http://www.hostmediauk.com/). They offer ColdFusion and Railo hosting from £1 - a price that is difficult to beat. I've been very impressed with them so far. :)
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ReplyDeleteAyera. Hands down the best CF hosting we've used.
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