What server host do you use for your personal projects?

Question

My VPS host is currently experiencing an outage that&rsquo;s not even listed on the status page, and I&rsquo;m starting to look at better options. Recommendations?I&rsquo;m on the east coast, but suggestions for other regions are appreciated too.

TacticalCoder · Accepted Answer

OVH of course. Hetzner is a name that comes up often too.
Note that you can have a dedicated server, not just a VPS, for as cheap as 5 EUR / month (and you can go up to insanely powerful stuff with bandwidth and CPU power sufficient for 99.99% of all the SMEs in the world at a fraction of the price of cloud offerings). They automatically come with quite beefy DoS protection too.
These are remotely controlled: you can re-install another Linux distro in minutes. You can also boot to a Web console. I precise this because any time these names comes up some comments here invariably explaining that "I don't have the time to assemble a server" or "I don't have the time to drive to the datacenter to fix a failed machine" etc.
We're talking about companies managing hundreds of thousands of servers (since decades now?). They know what they are doing.

cloudking · Answer

Digital Ocean droplets start at $4 USD/month and super reliable. https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets

stop50 · Answer

I use netcup.probably not the cheapest, but i like it there.uptime in my history has been better than expected.