free web hosting reviewed
click to best video hosting sites i suggest
We would like to take a minute to thank all of our amazing sponsors for keeping our lights on, our bellies full, and our fridge stocked with diet coke!
We are also still considering sponsors for our exciting New York City event, TechCrunch Disrupt that is taking place May 24th-26th. Contact us to find out about our packages.
Web 2.0 Expo | Quinn Emanuel | SugarCon | SourceBits | Nexx |Firehost | Crucial |Terremark |MediaTemple | Ooyala | StrataScale | Loopt | Cotendo | OpSource
Web 2.0 Expo Features stories, ideas, demos, and networking to help you create new business opportunities and make the most of the Web.
Quinn Emanuel Presenting “Winning Strategies in German and European Patent Litigation” on Thursday, April 22, 2010 in Palo Alto, CA.
SugarCon The 2010 SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference dealing with the cloud, open source, and social CRM.
SourceBits Provides beautiful software design and development services for the iPhone, iPad, Mobile, Mac, and Web.
Nexx the premier provider of web hosting and domain registration services since 1996. Take advantage of our limited time offer now: Get a full year of UNLIMITED hosting for just $10.
Firehost Web hosting. Secured. Fully managed, scalable, and compliance ready with Enterprise-level security.
Crucial The memory experts; offering over 280,000 memory upgrades for more than 40,000 systems.
Terremark flexible, high-performance cloud computing the way you need it, when you need it by giving you the power and control to configure resources exactly the way you need them
MediaTemple Hosts websites, big and small. Designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant.
Ooyala Publish, manage and monetize your videos online.
StrataScale The world’s first physical cloud. Providing hosting services without the limitations.
Loopt Find and stay connected with friends while you’re mobile. Join the TechCrunch community on Loopt.
Cotendo Offering website performance acceleration, real time content control, and integrated CDN services.
OpSource Cloud focused on providing complete Cloud operations infrastructure and service solution for every business.
Top 10 VPS Providers for Web Developers
Web developers need somewhere to host their projects, and when looking for hosting, there are several options.
Shared hosting, where you share a server with lots of other users and have very limited control over the server. Dedicated hosting, where you have complete control over a server; a very flexible option, but requires you to manage the whole server, worry about hardware failures and backups, and is typically expensive.
A third option that is in between these two choices is a Virtual Private Server, or VPS.
VPSs not only bridge the gap between shared and dedicated hosting, their virtualized nature provides other advantages such as instant reinstallation of the operating system, quick recovery and backup, and fast and simple hardware upgrades (the hardware is virtual, after all).
Still not sure what a VPS is? Read this guide on VPS hosting.
In this article, we cover 10 of the most popular VPS providers, giving details such as where their datacentres are located and what their prices start.
1. VPS.NET
Another UK VPS provider is VPS.NET with a price point that starts at $20 for a VPS with 376MB RAM and 10GB of storage. They have UK and US datacentres, and their cloud storage allows automatic failover and scaling.
2. Prgmr
Prgmr is a VPS provider that doesn’t "assume you are stupid," implying that their services are geared towards developers that know what they are doing (or have the desire to learn on their own). Their 64MB instances start at $5 a month, and a 256MB instance will only set you back $8. Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS are the only officially supported OSs, but they’ll let you install your own, if you want. They even let you build your own kernel, which isn’t something you can do with most of the other VPS providers.
3. Linode
Linode is a popular VPS provider, and they’ve recently added a UK-based datacentre so users now have the option of a US or European-situated server.
The cheapest plan starts at just under $20 a month and includes 360MB of RAM and 16GB storage. There are no setup fees, no contracts, and a slew of 32 and 64-bit Linux operating systems are offered.
4. Slicehost
Built for developers, Slicehost has no contract period or setup fees. "Slices" start from $20 with 256MB of RAM and 10GB of storage. You can upgrade or downgrade your hardware at any point with minimal downtime. They currently only offer US datacentres.
5. RIMU Hosting
A truly global VPS provider with datacentres in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand is RIMU Hosting. Prices start at around $20, and you can opt for billing in the local currency of the datacentre you chose.
If you’re an open source developer, RIMU Hosting will discount your subscription as a way of giving back to the community. They also offer a discount of 10% if you require multiple servers.
6. Bytemark
Bytemark is a UK-based VPS provider with datacentres in London. Prices start at £15 (around $22, American) for 256MB and 10GB of storage.
Bytemark boast some impressive features that come as standard, such as redundant disks for fault tolerance, free server monitoring and IPv6 connectivity.
7. XLS hosting
A cloud VPS provider, XLS hosting is based in the Netherlands. They have an extremely good value with their entry level VPS offering that starts at about $15 a month for 128MB RAM and 10GB storage.
8. Gandi
Self-described as "hosting for geeks", Gandi gives you great bang for your buck, and even offers a free trial. Prices start at $13 for 256MB RAM and 8GB storage. Hardware upgrades are automatic, and they provide emergency support services.
9. Clustered.net
The UK-located hosting provider, Clustered.net, offers high-end VPS servers starting at 1GB RAM for around $34. Their VPSs come with multiple static IP addresses. If you have several VPSs with them, they will give you redundant load balancing at no extra cost. Full backups are performed daily and stored for 30 days, you get a choice between 32 and 64-bit operating systems.
10. SuperBytes
SuperBytes is a Canadian company with datacentres in Canada, the US and the UK. 64MB VPS instances start at $6 a month.
Do you use any of these VPS providers? What’s your current web hosting set-up like?
Related Content
- A Complete Guide to VPS Hosting
- 6 Tools to Help You Analyze a Web Host
- Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
- Related categories: Web Development and Resources