[Chicago] Thoughts on Virtual Hosting

[Ishmael Rufus]

>From my personal experience Digital Ocean has tons of Tutorials for setting
up numerous types of servers as well as a Q&A section for DO customers.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:45 PM, comicpilsen <comicpilsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> as a complete novice in BOTH these areas I second Vasili's sage advice.
> Even I can understand DO and using Ubuntu is a dream. Apt is really easy to
> use.
>
> comicpilsen
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> On 12/15/2016 12:06 PM, Val Kolovos via Chicago wrote:
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> FWIW - My $.02
>
> Digital Ocean - Pricing is roughly the same, but DO’s interface and
> documentation is better than Linode.
> Ubuntu - Personal preference here, so I don’t want to start a holy war,
> but I find apt easier to work with than yum and Ubuntu just generally
> easier to navigate. Also, we use Ubuntu for our apps.
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> On Dec 15, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022 at umn.edu> wrote:
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> I am looking to spin up my first cloud sever for python
> development/hosting and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on:
>
>    1. Digital Ocean vs Linode
>    2. CentOS (Red Hat) vs Ubuntu
>
> With admittedly limited experience, I don't see much difference separating
> Digital Ocean and Linode.  I believe Chipy is hosted on Digital Ocean.
>
> For the second option, which OS is used in more professional shops.  I
> know Red Hat was the enterprise king for many years, but I get the
> impression that Ubuntu Server may be displacing it.  Are old school
> organizations still running Red Hat with startups moving to Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
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