I've been seeing several startups hosted in other companies than DO and Linode. It will be good to know for new companies to have few clues regarding other cheap services where you can host your development projects while you, well, 'develop' them.<p>I saw someone telling in another thread that, for example, RamNode.com is a well placed offer there, too.
I recently discovered Vultr [1]. Slightly cheaper than DO with lots of location. I only had a couple instances running up for a bit while I benchmarked some code (I wasn't benchmarking them, so I didn't compare it to someone else). Was alright.<p>I run my own "everything" box at Hetzner [2] and I've used OVH (France, though they had a DC in Canada). OVH has gotten confusing, a lot of different brands (SoYouStart, OVH, Kimsufi and all types of stocking issues...so I'll let you google it if you really want). Both of these completely decimate pretty much anything else for the price.<p>Finally, there was a recent story about Atlantic.net offering a 0.99 SSD-backed VPS [3]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.vultr.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vultr.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.hetzner.de/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hetzner.de/en/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8389477" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8389477</a>
If you want the best bang for your buck, check out RunAbove [1] We've found them to be excellent: performant, good people behind them, and the value is unmatched.<p>[1] <a href="http://RunAbove.com" rel="nofollow">http://RunAbove.com</a><p>Disclaimer: Really, really happy customer.
I use Ramnode and I am really happy. The speeds and performance is really good. However Ramnode does not provide any API like Digital Ocean. They use SolusVM for VM management, which has some API endpoints, but nothing fancy.
I run a few servers with Bytemark's BigV, which is very good. Definitely a solid alternative for UK-based cloud hosting. A bit more expensive than DO but much more customisable also.<p>I've heard good things about RamNode, especially performance-wise. Haven't tested them.
Slicehost, now owned by Rackspace and rebranded accordingly I think, used to be almost exactly the same as Linode. To the point where, when I was picking my first VPS box, I narrowed it down to those two, and then ended up picking based on how pretty their websites were.