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Serge Aleynikov

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Sep 20, 2012, 11:04:06 AM9/20/12
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I am considering to deploy some online Erlang applications. Can anyone
recommend inexpensive reliable hosting providers for running erlang web
applications?

Thanks.

Serge
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Loïc Hoguin

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Sep 20, 2012, 11:44:13 AM9/20/12
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On 09/20/2012 05:04 PM, Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> I am considering to deploy some online Erlang applications. Can anyone
> recommend inexpensive reliable hosting providers for running erlang web
> applications?

OVH has its kimsufi offering which gives you a small dedicated for 15
euros/month. You can run most distros on it, including Arch Linux. I'm
not sure which countries it covers exactly though.

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Ulf Wiger

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Sep 20, 2012, 12:03:33 PM9/20/12
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Dreamhost offers VPSes at $15/month, for 300MB RAM, unmetered disk and BW,
adding $5/month for each additional 100MB RAM. 50 GB backup space included.

The OS is Debian. No choice there, but at least a decent OS.

http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/

They also have an uptime guarantee, and will reimburse you if you suffer
downtime because of them.

BR,
Ulf W
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Tim McNamara

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Sep 20, 2012, 12:25:26 PM9/20/12
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I've been using DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) recently,
which doesn't charge for bandwidth and has VPS options from $5/month.
Chicago Boss seems quite happy.

Romain Lenglet

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Sep 20, 2012, 1:04:09 PM9/20/12
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You have to reside in France to use OVH's Kimsufi offer, unfortunately.
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Gleb Peregud

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Sep 20, 2012, 1:22:32 PM9/20/12
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That's not accurate. I am using Kimsufi a lot and I am residing in Poland

Tom Burdick

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Sep 20, 2012, 3:17:15 PM9/20/12
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I like using Linode for this sort of thing a lot.

Tom

Gavin Henry

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Sep 20, 2012, 3:30:30 PM9/20/12
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On 20 September 2012 17:25, Tim McNamara <pape...@timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> I've been using DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) recently,
> which doesn't charge for bandwidth and has VPS options from $5/month.
> Chicago Boss seems quite happy.

Oh dear:

https://www.digitalocean.com/registrations/create

Internal server error. Was going to sign up.

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Max Bourinov

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Sep 21, 2012, 1:02:19 AM9/21/12
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You also can try rackspace.com - very reasonable prices. But of course hardware servers are more cost effective.

Best regards,
Max

Max Lapshin

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Sep 21, 2012, 1:29:44 AM9/21/12
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We can list here all VPS =)

By the way, I prefer http://newservers.com/ if we speak about US,
because they don't mess with this virtualization and give you cloud
bare metal.

Michael Turner

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Sep 21, 2012, 1:57:29 AM9/21/12
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Max Lapshin <max.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, I prefer http://newservers.com/ if we speak about US,
> because they don't mess with this virtualization and give you cloud
> bare metal.

Ha. That's what they *want* you to think.

-michael turner

Max Lapshin

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Sep 21, 2012, 2:24:00 AM9/21/12
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Turner
<michael.eu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ha. That's what they *want* you to think.
>

Are you sure? Is it ok in US to lie in advertisement?

Michael Truog

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Sep 21, 2012, 2:25:30 AM9/21/12
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On 09/20/2012 11:24 PM, Max Lapshin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Turner
> <michael.eu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ha. That's what they *want* you to think.
>>
> Are you sure? Is it ok in US to lie in advertisement?

No, they never lie in the US.

Michael Turner

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Sep 21, 2012, 3:39:02 AM9/21/12
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Michael Truog <mjt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/20/2012 11:24 PM, Max Lapshin wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Michael Turner
>> <michael.eu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ha. That's what they *want* you to think.
>>>
>> Are you sure? Is it ok in US to lie in advertisement?
>
> No, they never lie in the US.
>

*I* never lie in the U.S., anyway. But since I live in Japan now ....

-michael turner


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André Graf

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Sep 21, 2012, 3:45:22 AM9/21/12
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Hi all,

some of our services are hosted on a Hetzner rootserver (EX4 for 49
Euros/month), Intel Quad-Core i7-2600 processor, 16 GB DDR 3 RAM, 2 x
3 TB SATA 6 Gb/s hard disks. You can have it with a preinstalled
Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Debian, FreeBSD, and for some extra
money Windows. After 10TB outgoing traffic they'll charge you 6.90
Euro for every additional TB or they'll downgrade your network
interface to 10MBit/s. For additional 39 Euros/month they'll upgrade
your link to 1 GBit including additional 15TB traffic.

So far we are very happy with Hetzner.

Cheers
André

pablo platt

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Sep 21, 2012, 6:26:17 AM9/21/12
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Anyone tried Red Hat`s openshift?
https://openshift.redhat.com/app/

It let you create 3 free apps, for example, erlang, postgresql and nginx.

Geoff Cant

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Sep 21, 2012, 7:34:42 PM9/21/12
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Serge Aleynikov <se...@aleynikov.org> writes:

> I am considering to deploy some online Erlang applications. Can anyone
> recommend inexpensive reliable hosting providers for running erlang web
> applications?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Serge

Hi Serge, if you have an Erlang web application that you want to deploy,
Heroku has buildpack[1] support for a number of OTP versions.

The big downside right now is that you can't do Erlang distribution -
your web app would have to coordinate via a shared resource like a queue
or a database as typical Rails/Java/... apps do. It's an unfortunate
restriction of the platform right now.

The upside is you get one free dyno[2] (linux container) for your app, and
a catalogue of addons[3] that together with the platform take care of
almost all your ops chores.

Cheers,
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[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks
[2] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos
[3] https://addons.heroku.com/
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