Comment by Mario Giambanco on "Which is the best VM hosting provider?"

CommentWhich is the best VM hosting provider?

Mario Giambanco

Director of User Experience Development

Apr 11, 2017

Digital Ocean is probably the best known "cheap" hosting provider.

Using ASP.net almost certainly means you need to use a Windows server and those are always going to be more expensive then linux servers due to licensing.

AWS does have free tiers for Windows so that'll give you a cheap way to start a project.

Look for Free tier eligible in the Choose an AMI after clicking Launch new instance.

Personally if I was going to run Windows servers; I'd run on Azure. What better hosting company for a windows backend then from the company that makes it? Information about their free tier can be found here

Gabor

developer

Apr 12, 2017

Thank you Mario!

I'm using (ASP).NET Core platform for the project because it can be hosted on linux server. So I gonna check DigitalOcean.

What about the database? I don't want to use no-sql but standard rdbms. Do you think DO still the best choice if I need a solid SQL DB too?

DO is a basic host; last I remember, they just have servers and now load balancers; no CDN; no cloud DB; no auto scaling, etc...

How ever you choose to setup your DB is up to you - on a separate server; on the same server as the code; etc...

I'd recommend Rackspace normally - they have the basics - Servers; Load Balancers; CDN; Cloud DB - BUT we're leaving RS for AWS for both my day job and all side projects for reasons I don't think I should discuss publicly (It's not us; it's them)

If you want the fancy features; your gonna have to go with a fancy host :(

Which SQL server is up to you; MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB (though I'd prefer traditional MySQL over MariaDB) - pick whatever your most comfortable with and is supported by your language.

Theres no shame in running your own DB server. We do it currently on a dedicated server at RS. So long as you monitor it and size it appropriately, it should be fine.

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