Where to host my Elm apps?

[Alex Shroyer]

Recommendations anyone?   I already used Godaddy but didn't like the PHP/MySQL limitation.

I want to do apps and experiment with different backends.  For example, I might want to have an app that uses Apache, another that uses Node, another using Firebase, etc.  Ideally I could have one host for all of these things.

Thanks,

Alex

[Joseph Collard]

During my senior software design course, my group used an Ubuntu VPS from these guys: http://myhosting.com/ubuntu-vps/#

Unlike plain old web hosting VPS gave us the root access we needed to modify the server to our liking. However, the cost tends to be much greater.

If you're just looking to experiment with different backends, I would recommend setting up a Virtual Server on your local machine. Once you have things working relatively well, you could switch to a VPS. Or, if you have a spare machine sitting around you could actually set it up for hosting and just pay for a domain. Our group started out doing this until we actually started getting real traffic to our application at which point we switched to paid VPS.

Best of luck!

Joe

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[Evan Czaplicki]

I use a virtual private server (VPS) from RackSpace. That gives you an arbitrary VM that runs "in the cloud" and you can run Ubuntu or arch or whatever. For the 256mb RAM server, it's about $12 per month. You can temporarily resize if you want GHC to go faster or expect more traffic or whatever. So you can pay for a much nicer CPU for an hour or day (when you need it) and then turn it back down to the cheap version.

I tried to use AWS for the same thing. I yhonk they are cheaper(?) but I was pretty novice then and felt it was a lot more complicated than RackSpace.

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[John Mayer]

I use digitalocean.

[Evan Czaplicki]

Woah, that's awesome pricing! Is there a reason besides loyalty and time that I wouldn't want to switch? Can you migrate servers between plans easily?

[John Mayer]

Yeah you can resize a VM on the fly. I'm also a big fan of their admin UI.

[Alex Shroyer]

Wow, that is good pricing.

[Martin DeMello]

I use prgmr.com.

http://prgmr.com/xen/plans.html

martin

[Joey Eremondi]

RamNode has pretty good prices, it's $2 per month for their cheapest VPS. Probably not the most amazing server you've ever seen, but if you are just hosting a website, but want root access, the price is pretty hard to beat.

The site buyvm also has amazing prices, but they are almost always out of stock, in my experience.