DigitalOcean
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DigitalOcean is a virtual private server provider targeted towards developers and offers low cost cloud servers in data centers across the world.
Upsides
- One-click-install for Ghost, Wordpress, Drupal, Django, Joomla, MediaWiki, and LAMP.
- The price for a single virtual server ranges from US$5 to US$640 per month depending on your needs.
- You manage the server yourself.
Downsides
- You manage the server yourself.
IRC
DigitalOcean has an IRC channel on freenode; #digitalocean
Free DNS hosting
They offer free DNS hosting with a nice API, so it's possible to use it as dynamic DNS as well - once you detect a change in the local IP, you can alter the entry. The TTL is 900 seconds, which is not immediate, but tolerable.
They also seem to add domain privacy by default, also for free, to any domain, which is hosted (ns records are with digitalocean) with them.
