Clown hosting
Hosting Providers
- gandi.net - $5 a month for a small instance, 30gb traffic
- Amazon EC2 - pricing
- linode - $19.95 a month for a small plan, 2,000gb traffic
DigitalOcean
- $0.007 per instance per hour
- Unmetered BW
- Supports launching new instances from an image
- Coupon code "SSDTWEET" gives $11.15 account credit
- Submit a support ticket to lift the standard 5 instance limit
- API can launch instances
joyent
- $0.03 per hour for an extra small Linux instance (512mb RAM, 9.1gb hard drive, 1 cpu)
- 20tb outbound per month free
- Debian 6.x and Centos
- No support for installing custom Linux distros
- Cannot find a way to add more hard disk and RAM to a running instance.
- The wiki is currently down :(
- Some scripts on there site are just broken links :(
BuyVM (VPS)
- $15/year OpenVZ plan (1 CPU, 128 MB RAM burst to 256, 15GB HD, 500GB/month BW)
- Burstable RAM is availible as long as there is capacity on the host node, which seems to be almost all the time
- CentOS/Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu
- OpenVZ means you can't change the kernel
- Additional IP v4 addresses $1/month, but they probably won't let you cycle them to avoid bans
- Additional bandwidth $2.50/month for 1TB extra with no maximum
- Larger plans also available with similar pricing
- Plans often go out of stock, especially the smaller ones
- IRC support and information about stock in #Frantech on irc.dairc.net