Price and Spec. I have had a few VPS's before and been amazed at how little connections you can have before you run out of memory. As an example a 256MB VPS can only have one or two visitors on a wordpress site before it grinds to a halt. Most ISP's offer only 1GB before they start getting too expensive but, but SWVPS offer 2GB memory burstable upto 4GB for just $19 per month.
I will try there 1GB server for a month or two with different apps including Web2py, see what their support is like and then make a decision if I want/need to upgrade to the Bigger server. I am also going to try web2py on my home server to see what performance I get and I may then decide to invest in a reasonable PC and locate it in my garage. With the bandwidth I have available it seems a shame not to use it. Simon On 19 August 2012 15:24, Mike Girard <mikegirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, those are great prices for VPS. > > Was there anything besides price that made you choose them? > > > On Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:42:32 AM UTC-4, Simon Carr wrote: > >> I have just found this service >> >> http://webkeepers.com >> >> I think i will give their medium service a try on the one month contract >> and see how it goes. The 4gb version seems very reasonable even on the >> monthly rates and better still if i decide to stick with them for a year. >> My only worry is that i am in the uk and so will most of my >> visitors/customers so latency might become an issue. >> >> I also have another option. I have virgin fibreoptic broadband with >> 120mb download and 10mb upload and a static ip. I have tried pointing my >> domain name at my home router before and it works fine. The only issue >> here is that i would have to invest in a new pc and the computer room >> shares a wall with the bedroom so the fan noise might become an issue at >> night. >> >> Will give webkeepers a try and report back with results. >> >> Simon >> On 19 Aug 2012 00:54, "Simon Carr" <simon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> After a few weeks of getting to know web2py i have decided that it >>> should become one of the development tools in my tool belt. >>> >>> The only thing that is stopping me moving on however is hosting options. >>> I am going to take a look at app engine as one option but i need to know >>> that i can also deploy on a standard web server. >>> >>> I would need to be able to use apache which i know web2py can do but i >>> am not sure how complicated this is. I also think that I am going to need >>> to use a VPS but these go up in price very quickly beyond 1gb and 1 cpu. >>> >>> Can anyone give some comments on where they host, what spec server they >>> have and what performance they get. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Simon >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> -- > > > > --
